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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Fortune Magazine in their series of articles on China highlighted the massive amount of road-building being undertaken, with 50,000 km of expressways built in the past decade. That is approximately two-thirds of the length of the entire US Interstate system in ten years. China currently has 79,000 km of expressways, and some 4.2 …
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On 3rd July in New Zealand, the Waugh Infrastructure Management website had its 1000th visitor. Thank you, everyone, for looking in, and reading our infrastructure management blog. Also yesterday, with the visitor from Mexico, our first from Latin America, all regions of the world have been represented as visitors of this site. I …
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LinkedIn shut down its CardMunch business card scanning app in July 2014. It has offered Evernote as an alternative solution. Having read the Fortune Magazine article on LinkedIn there was a reference to a really useful iPhone App called CardMunch. This App digitised business cards, allowed you to save them to your iPhone contacts …
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At the 2013 Ingenium Conference two outstanding organisations we are members of merged. Ingenium has become part of the Institute of Public Works Engineers Australasia as IPWEA NZ. Our opinion is, this is very good news and will bring renewed strength to the combined organisation. We support and welcome this change and look …
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The Economist Magazine has a fascinating daily Chart today showing predicted shifts in world population from 1950 to 2050. This data is based on the UN World Population Prospects. Generally, in the infrastructure management field, new infrastructure investment follows population growth, coupled with economic growth. Based on this …
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Waugh Infrastructure Management Blog has been attracting visitors from around the world. Deighton Associates Limited from Canada have linked to Waugh Blog on their LinkedIn page. Deighton are the suppliers of the dTIMS software provided by IDS Ltd here in New Zealand. I have recently featured the IDS dTIMS …
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