Asset Management

The first major report from the UK’s new National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority, (NISTA), has rated the majority of projects at either ‘green’ or ‘amber,’ showing that delivery is ...

By Steve Mooney In my work with infrastructure asset management professionals across New Zealand, I see every day how much communities depend on the assets around them. Roads, water networks, public ...

By Keith Henry, General Manager CU Phosco Australia and Head of Telecoms Mobile connectivity is an essential service, not a luxury. Whether supporting remote working, connecting businesses or helping ...

When a city wins the right to host a major sporting event, the headlines often focus on economic boosts, global exposure and world-class competition. However, history shows that the real measure of success ...

Every asset rests on an elegant triangle: performance, cost and risk. Get the triangle right and communities barely notice their infrastructure, the highest compliment infrastructure can receive. Get it ...

By Steve Mooney New Zealand’s infrastructure debate is often framed in terms of deficits, of pipes, roads, resilience, or funding. Little attention is paid to the projects that are subtly redefining ...

By David Jenkins Picture a highway overpass. Engineers finished it on time, on budget – success by every official measure. But it also impacted the neighbourhood underneath, fragmented green space, cut ...

By Steve Mooney As New Zealand faces ageing infrastructure and fiscal constraints, asset recycling is re-emerging in policy discussions. The concept is simple: sell or lease mature public assets and ...

By David Jenkins Australia’s path to net zero will not be decided in Canberra. It will be built, bit by bit, and a lot of it by local governments managing a vast proportion of the nation’s roads, parks, ...

Queensland’s 77 councils collectively manage $142 billion of infrastructure assets (roads, bridges, water assets) that are used to provide services to their communities. From the Cape to the Gold Coast, ...

Many people would consider the idea of pavement recycling as just a buzzword, but according to Tanja Conners that future is already here. “The truth is, the revolution has already happened,” said Conners, ...

New Zealand has around 11,000 kilometres of state highway regulated by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) and about 83,000 kilometres of local roads administered by 67 councils. On one level, the ...

Infrastructure creates around 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for approximately half of all the resources used and waste created on the planet. That is alarming enough, but between ...

New Zealand, says the country’s Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop, used to be a world leader in infrastructure but poor asset management practices are putting that at risk. In a keynote address at ...

Naturalisation initiatives in the Queensland city of Bundaberg have been so successful that neighbours with adjacent properties have donated their own land for inclusion in the project. Dwayne Honor, ...