DHUD win at the national PIA Congress 2025

The Department for Housing and Urban Development’s Analytics and Forecasting team, led by Greg Van Gaans, Chris Rudd, Jo-Anne Ragless and Grant Croft, have won the ‘Technology and Innovation Award’ at the prestigious Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) National Congress in Darwin.

The award was in recognition of their work to create the Land Supply Dashboard - a key innovation which displays land supply and development activity across Greater Adelaide.

The dashboard – the first of its kind in Australia - makes urban land supply and development data more timely, accessible, transparent. It integrates development application data from our state’s planning system, with existing land and property data, to provide an up to date and shared understanding of the land supply market aimed at improving housing supply and affordability over time.

The PIA Award was presented at the annual PIA National Congress, the most significant gathering of planning professionals in Australia. The Awards are to recognise the outstanding achievements in planning and to showcase leading practice across a range of planning disciplines and sectors. The award was accepted by the Deputy Chief Executive, Sally Smith, on behalf of the team.

The Land Supply Dashboard was acknowledged at the PIA South Australia Awards with a win in the same category, making it eligible for the national awards.