Billions of dollars of local government infrastructure and assets are at risk from sea level rise, according to recent research by LGNZ and Tonkin + Taylor. The impacts will be most significant for water infrastructure and roads. Thousands of properties and businesses are also under threat. Patricia Moore talks with specialists from four...
Morrison Low recently completed a study on the cost of growth at a number of local authorities. Consultant Stuart Cross (pictured) summarises some of the findings and challenges councils to talk more with their communities about the direct and indirect benefits of growth.
Not all costs that are caused by growth can be recovered from...
By Peter Silcock, chief executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand.
Over the past few months I have travelled around the country attending the various CCNZ branch AGMs and Construction Excellence Award Dinners. The mood of the civil contractors is very positive.
The message is the same all over the country – there is plenty of work...
How well are councils adapting to the longer timeframes and deeper analysis now required under 30-year infrastructure planning regimes? Ruth Le Pla takes a look at a recent Audit New Zealand report.
Six councils got a pat on the back for good performance by Audit New Zealand in its first major review of asset management plans since...
Opus International Consultants partner Philip McFarlane reports that for every $1 invested in resilience projects, it’s possible to get returns of between $5 and $10.
“The United Nations quotes figures of a $10 return for every dollar spent,” he says. “And in the United States they talk about improvements to levies for stopbanks...
MWH Global specialists warn of challenging times ahead as declining and aging populations in many regions combine with increasing debt and a looming asset renewal cycle.
“Asset managers need to be very creative in finding sustainable solutions to these challenges,” writes MWH Global’s ANZ new business director Ralph Fouché in a...
Shaping future water and roads services
Local authorities need to manage the challenges of delivering future water and roads services, says the OAG's Bruce Robertson.
I’ve been heartened by the reaction that we’ve had to our report Water and roads: Funding and management challenges. As you’ll know if you’ve seen the report,...
Vicki Deighton, CEO of Canadian asset management software company Deighton Associates, visited New Zealand recently and cites our public infrastructure asset managers − especially in roading − as amongst the best in the world.
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