Video 3 of 3 At the Local Government New Zealand national conference, pre-eminent demographer Professor Natalie Jackson presented on the issues relating to New Zealand's ageing population. The Stuff and NZ Herald (through Bernard Hickey's write up) highlighted the concern about having a plan for New Zealand's ageing …
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Video 2 of 11 The video above is the second in the series. It covers Section 4.0 of the conference paper - Fiscal Challenges Ahead In June 2013, I presented my paper Infrastructure Management - Forecasting the Changes to 2030 at the Ingenium (now IPWEA NZ) Conference in Dunedin. This paper is 63 pages, and during the conference, …
Video 1 of 11 The video above is the first in the series of 11. It covers Section 3.0 of the conference paper - New Zealand is Doing Well At the Ingenium (now IPWEA NZ) Conference in Dunedin, on June 2013, I presented my paper infrastructure management industry, I have undertaken to produce this series of videos - essentially one …
Video 2 of 3 During the Local Government New Zealand national conference last week leading demographer Professor Natalie Jackson presented on the issues confronting New Zealand's ageing population. The call for a plan on ageing Kiwis was featured on the Stuff website and also on Bernard Hickey's writing an opinion piece for …
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Video 1 of 3 On 22 July, during the Local Government New Zealand national conference, pre-eminent demographer Professor Natalie Jackson presented on the issues relating to New Zealand's ageing population. This situation calls for a national plan for ageing Kiwis was highlighted on Stuff and NZ Herald through Bernard Hickey's …
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This event has transpired and we would like to encourage you to browse the related articles at the bottom of the post or at the right sidebar. Thank you. Grant Holland and I attended the IPWEA International Public Works Conference on 11-15 August at Darwin, Australia. The IPWEA International Public Works Conference is held …
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The question of how to pay for infrastructure is not a new one - it has been around for a millennium. In times past, roads and bridges were built by kings or empires primarily to facilitate military necessities. As examined in previous blog posts, infrastructure tends to be built in times of national prosperity, to assist …
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A 2013 article looking at the safest countries in the world to live in rates New Zealand as the top country. The top 10 were 10. Sweden, 9. Finland, 8. Austria, 7. Australia, 6. Norway, 5. Ireland, 4. Iceland, 3. Denmark, 2. Tuvalu and 1. New Zealand. These types of lists can be very arbitrary, but increasingly the countries …
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There is a really interesting article on BBC Future about Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann's Second Empire urban redesign of Paris, that transformed choked and convoluted medieval streets into the bold boulevards we know today. A new study by Marc Barthelemy of the CEA Institute of Theoretical Physics in the Parisian …
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Grant Holland and I attended the NZ Treasury training on Better Business Cases (BBC) in Wellington. The BBC model has been developed by the NZ Treasury to improve decision making through the use of fit for purpose business cases. The New Zealand concise BBC model has been adapted from UK practice and also the Victorian …
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Detroit was in the news as the city filed for bankruptcy - the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. The Economist has a brief article on the issues surrounding this event. At the core of Detroit's long-term issues has been the population decline from 2 million in the 1960s to barely 700,000 today. This population …
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As anyone working in the Engineering and Infrastructure Management fields in New Zealand, Australia, or much of the Western world knows, there is an Engineering Skills Shortage. In my Ingenium Conference Paper, I outlined the Engineering Skills Shortage could well be a significant infrastructure management constraint in the future for …
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In the previous Waugh Blog "China’s New Infrastructure – Building Roads on a Massive Scale", I focussed on China's massive road-building program. As Fortune Magazine notes in its article, China is also building and developing a huge amount of rail, ports, and airports. The massive scale and the speed of the build-out of this …
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