The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation has launched a digital project which aims to improve accessibility for people with disabilities and diverse needs. The Parks Board is working with AccessNow, a digital platform that allows users to search and rate the accessibility of places, to...
Australia and New Zealand’s infrastructure plans are ambitious. Australia currently has $230 billion in planned, committed, or in-progress public infrastructure projects, and a similar pipeline is projected in New Zealand. However, both countries are facing ongoing challenges when it comes to...
By Steve Mooney New Zealand asset management and public works professionals joined with IPWEA Aotearoa New Zealand in Auckland on April 30th for the annual New Zealand Excellence Awards Gala Dinner at the Pullman Hotel. Organisations from around the country entered their projects in eight...
Globally, we are seeing an increase in extreme weather events. From torrential rain to catastrophic wildfires, what were once “unprecedented” events or statistical anomalies are now becoming a regular feature of our annual weather cycle. For every 1°C of warming, the air holds approximately 7%...
By Adele Finch, Chair of the Australian Public Lighting DNSP Community of Practice There are about 2.5 million street lights in Australia and almost 90% of these are managed by electricity distributors (called Distribution Network Service Providers or DNSPs in the industry). Public lighting...
By Adam Thomas Generally speaking, most of our infrastructure-rich organisations are required by Australian Accounting Standard AASB 136 Impairment of Assets to review their assets annually for indicators of impairment in service capacity and therefore value. AASB lists the following...
Fleet practitioners are often overwhelmed by data. Modern fleet systems can generate hundreds of reports covering utilisation, fuel consumption, maintenance costs, downtime, incidents, emissions, and driver behaviour. The challenge is not collecting data. The challenge is knowing which...
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 off pedestrian routes, and sent a steady stream of pollution into the lungs of people who never had a say in...
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