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AsiaPacific Infrastructure is the country’s leading information provider for stakeholders in the infrastructure sectors and decision makers in local and national government.

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First Quarter 2017

In this issue:

  • The Auckland challenge for 2017 
  • On the surface 2016 showed significant steps in infrastructure but dig a little deeper and a year of much less progress emerges
  • Natural gas and zero-carbon fuels are expected to satisfy 60 per cent of the rise in global energy demand by 2035
  • Pipeline forecasts will drive better procurement planning for clients and suppliers
  • The vexing question of managing risk in a local government environment thrown into stark relief by the Kaikoura quake

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Cities
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How are cities responding to extreme weather?

Weather events are becoming more unpredictable, more intense and more damaging, posing huge challenges in both preparing for and recovering from their growing impact, says Jeremy Kelly, Global Director of Cities Research at JLL From extreme heat across southern Europe to the heaviest rainfall on record in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, to flooding in Brazil and cyclones devastating parts of southern Africa, cities face unprecedented physical risks. Continue →
Communication
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New caretaker for communications infrastructure

Chorus has appointed Programmed to manage and maintain the integrity of buildings and infrastructure services that support New Zealand’s critical communications network Programmed has won a competitive bid to maintain Chorus’ property portfolio across 2,600 sites in a potential eight year, multi-million-dollar contract. Continue →
Construction

Energy
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Why EVs are actually driving up emissions globally

A study of 26 countries using data over 15 years has found a link between EV uptake and increased CO2 emissions, though New Zealand is an outlier for one important reason Conducted by researchers from the University of Auckland and Xiamen University in China, the study analysed the environmental impacts of human activity and used a robust statistical approach to investigate what drives a nation’s carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. Continue →
Environment
Local Government
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What councils need most in 2025

Councils across the country had some of their most challenging conversations around the table last year, as they balance the need to protect ratepayer’s long-term interests with the financial sustainability of councils, Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) President Sam Broughton writes Looking ahead to 2025, we all know the long list of actions that central government is asking of local government. Continue →

Training & Management
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Work-based learning to become industry-led

Industry representatives are pleased vocational education and training providers will be given more control over their own programmes, rather than taking direction from a ‘centralised behemoth’ Beginning next year, the Government will introduce a new, independent, and industry-led model for work-based learning, Vocational Education Minister Penny Simmonds says. Continue →
Transport
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‘Missed opportunity’ for new $800m highway

Tolling the new Te Ahu a Turanga: Manawatū Tararua Highway would have helped fund the ongoing maintenance and future resilience of the critical transport route through a ‘user pays’ approach, says Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive Nick Leggett Tolling a new highway isn’t about penalising the users of that road or the communities in the area. Continue →
Water
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Region plagued with water restrictions investigates massive dam

A bid to build a dam in the shadow of the failed Ruataniwha dam in Central Hawke’s Bay has been given a $3 million injection from the Government By Linda Hall, Local Democracy Reporter The money will be used to find out if the massive project to store water on the Makaroro River is viable – commercially, environmentally and technically. Continue →