20 January 2012 – Australia’s energy, transport and telecommunications infrastructure could well do with a new national body to co-ordinate greater resilience to climate change, a new government report has found.
The report, The Role of Regulation...
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By Lynne Blundell
2 November 2011 – The Australian Green Infrastructure Council is to launch its sustainable infrastructure ratings tool in early 2012, delegates at the AGIC’s recent annual conference in Melbourne were told.
The ratings scheme,...
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By Tina Perinotto
2 November 2011 – According to Queensland based AECOM managing director for water and infrastructure services Andrew Macleod there is a “desperate” need for skilled people across the entire engineering sector. Some of this...
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27 July 2011 – Australia’s urban congestion costs including wasted time in traffic, maintenance, fuel and emissions costs are forecast to be $20.4 billion by 2020 unless cities undertake a major review of their infrastructure, according to a review...
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By Brian McMahon, principal planning consultant, PlaceMaking and Planning, Parsons Brinckerhoff
20 July 2011 – With the release of its draft consultation plan, Public Transport for Perth in 2031, the state government in Western Australia cannot be...
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28 June 2011 – Almost half of those surveyed by global engineering company MWH in an Australia-wide study of attitudes to natural disasters believe not enough is being done to improve infrastructure to prepare for such events.
Twenty four per cent of...
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11 May 2011 – Executive director of CB Richard Ellis Pty Ltd, Kevin Stanley believes more could have been done in the budget to impact the property industry but in a cautious fiscal environment, laying the foundations of the future through infrastructure...
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28 April –A report by the Australian Conservation Foundation says the nation’s governments have spent at least four times more on building roads and bridges than on public transport infrastructure in the past decade.
While $11.3 billion was spent...
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23 March 2011– The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering has produced a Handbook for Reform to guide a new NSW Government after Saturday’s election towards the successful infrastructure needed for continuing economic growth.
“Last year’s...
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9 February 2011 - Grattan Institute chief executive officer John Daley said at a Roads Australia pricing forum on 31 January that there were many benefits to congestion pricing, including:
that congestion imposes large economic costs; congestion...
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By Leon Gettler
3 February 2011 – Adapting to floods, bushfires, and cyclones will not be cheap. Engineers say infrastructure cannot be made totally invulnerable, only resilient. But that will add to the cost. In the wake of extreme weather...
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