Asset Management

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, ...

By David Jenkins We’ve spent too long looking at infrastructure through a narrow lens, thinking about the individual pipe, bridge, or pump instead of the wider system it sits within. Asset-by-asset ...

Rottnest Island is one of Western Australia’s premier tourist attractions and welcomed over 823,000 visitors in 2024. Visitor numbers are increasing to Rottnest, which strives to balance environment values ...

In 2023 New Zealand’s largest city Auckland experienced two extreme weather events. Weeks of heavy rain culminated in tropical Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023, the costliest event of its kind recorded ...

The road network maintained by the MidCoast Council in New South Wales is regularly under pressure, but when major rain and flooding hit the region in 2021 the issue was on the way to becoming a crisis. ...

By David Jenkins Many asset managers face a daily contradiction in having to apply short-term thinking to long-term assets that will serve their communities for decades. It is simply a function of ...