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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 value. Investments that deliver not just a single outcome, but multiple, reinforcing benefits....
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 off pedestrian routes, and sent a steady stream of pollution into the lungs of people who...
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 reinvest the proceeds into new, productivity-enhancing infrastructure. Done well, it can unlock...
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, buildings, fleet and waste facilities. Local government is the most asset-intensive tier...
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, these assets include roads, water networks, parks, and community facilities, and are the...
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, who is the Chief Executive of AustStab, the Australian Pavement Recycling and Stabilisation...
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 system is integrated because every road controlling authority in New Zealand uses the same...
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 60% and 70% of the infrastructure planned by 2050 has not been built yet. This context,...
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 IPWC 2025, Bishop said that while the current generation of Kiwis could thank their parent’s...
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, Branch Manager of Infrastructure Assets for Bundaberg Regional Council, presented case studies...