Green Infrastructure: Asset management’s sustainability solution
Infrastructure creates around 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for approximately half of all the resources used and waste created on the...
Bishop says New Zealand needs to lift its game on infrastructure
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...
Swapping concrete for vegetation
Naturalisation initiatives in the Queensland city of Bundaberg have been so successful that neighbours with adjacent properties have donated their own land for inclusion...
Beyond the Pipe: Why Infrastructure Needs a Systems View
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...
Balancing the environment and tourism with infrastructure
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...
Auckland Transport harnesses AI to build resilience
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,...
Joining the dots in the MidCoast
The road network maintained by the MidCoast Council in New South Wales is regularly under pressure, but when major rain and flooding hit the...
The systems approach challenge
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...
Inclusivity a driver of infrastructure performance
One of the increasing measures of asset performance is around access, and the concept of inclusive infrastructure is gaining momentum around the world. Inclusive...
Asset management and the First Nations approach
First Nations people have deep traditions around asset management and many of these ideas are being recognised and integrated into mainstream thinking in both...
