Top 4 Smart Lighting Trends from Smart City Expo World Congress
IPWEA is an official event partner of the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) which is held in Barcelona each November. SCEWC is the...
Green infrastructure. The next frontier in asset management
By David Jenkins
A significant development in asset management practice has been the use of natural assets, which can replace traditional hard assets, or be...
Will Street Lights Become the Location of Choice for Sensors?
By Sara El Feky, Karl Göransson, Walter Longwe and Graham Mawer
There are more than 300 million street lights in the world and they are...
It’s not only the tech that makes cities smart
By David Jenkins
When most people think of smart cities they define them in terms of technology.
A quick internet search of definitions bears this out....
Asset management is the key to NZ infrastructure success
By David Jenkins and Steve Verity
Infrastructure is a significant focus in New Zealand. The Government recently announced several key priorities, including a 30-year National...
Seizing the infrastructure moment
New Zealand, says Nick Leggett, is having an “infrastructure moment” with a widespread public understanding of the need to invest in new infrastructure and...
Olympic infrastructure must return value over the long term
David Jenkins
Many of us would have enjoyed the remarkable sight of athletes swimming in the famous River Seine during the recent Paris Olympics.
As someone...
Elected members as stewards of community assets
By Steve Mooney
Even before Owen Jackson became elected as a councillor at the Timaru District Council in New Zealand’s South Island, he had been...
Accounting for assets
Tanya Garost started her professional career as an accountant and had been working in Canada’s local government sector for around five years when changes...
Coastal infrastructure in a time of rising seas
By David Jenkins
Sea levels are rising across the Pacific, and the trend will likely accelerate in the coming decades. This presents a major infrastructure...
