How councils can optimise asset management, mitigate risks
Software that forecasts infrastructure deterioration and data analysis that reviews processes are among the tools helping local governments to improve asset management.
11 June, 2018Software that forecasts infrastructure deterioration and data analysis that reviews processes are among the tools helping local governments to improve asset management.
11 June, 2018Heatwaves pose the greatest threat to Sydney, followed by storms and bushfires, according to an international benchmark of cities’ capacity to handle shocks and stresses.
7 June, 2018Cities are expanding upwards and downwards, as well as outwards. With urban density also increasing, moving people efficiently around the city, often using ageing infrastructure, is quite a challenge, write Andrea Connor and Donald McNeill.
5 June, 2018Industry calls on government to encourage private freight investment by streamlining regulation and to make greater use of rail.
28 May, 2018Consistent, evidence-based policies across state and local governments are essential to creating healthy communities, new research shows.
17 May, 2018The Commonwealth should link its budget’s infrastructure investment to its innovation agenda to ensure new technologies are used to reduce construction and maintenance costs, analysts say.
10 May, 2018Regional local governments are disappointed with the lack of increases to financial grants while metropolitan councils feel the budget is silent on growing population, expert says.
10 May, 2018Local government peaks welcome ongoing funding for key roads, bridges and regions programs but say inaction on financial grants means councils face a shortfall.
9 May, 2018Government and public policy experts provide a state-by-state analysis of Budget 2018-19, handed down last night by Treasurer Scott Morrison.
8 May, 2018Local government, transport and health groups have welcomed the Andrews Government’s record investment in infrastructure and community services.
4 May, 2018More than half of NSW’s councils are struggling to renew and maintain their infrastructure, according to the state’s auditor who says financial reporting in local government needs to improve.
23 April, 2018Our data suggests a quarter of NSW councils are yet to develop asset management systems that would help them respond to the roads infrastructure backlog, says Annalisa Haskell.
23 April, 2018The City of Wyndham in Victoria is pioneering new ways of working and digital transformation as it responds to rapid population growth.
2 April, 2018Landmark metro systems in Brisbane and Sydney, Victoria’s M80 upgrade and NSW’s WestConnex are among the “high priority” projects approved by Infrastructure Australia.
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