One of Australia and New Zealand’s largest providers of rail and infrastructure services, Downer Group believes the optimal outcomes occur with both humans and robots working side-by-side. Continue →

Many popular transport policies fail not because of bad intentions, but because complex systems problems are being tackled with linear thinking — focusing on a single, direct path, reckons Russell King. Continue →

A proposal to split the gentailers has reignited a familiar argument: who is to blame for rising power prices. Continue →

Modelling from the Government’s $290 million Te Rua National Archives project shows that if the same digital technology is applied from the design stage of other large-scale projects, cost overruns in New Zealand’s 30-year, $275 billion infrastructure pipeline could be slashed by millions of dollars and new building emissions cut by up to 80 percent. Continue →

While no one believes the pipeline had vanished, by late 2025 most people involved with the infrastructure sector were describing the year in a similar vein. Continue →

The long-term National Infrastructure Plan is in Government hands. At the time of going to press, we have only seen the draft plan but it is comprehensive with feasible and realistic solutions and applications, says Mike Bishara who publishes Infrastructure, Property, Build and Industrial Safety over seven media platforms These are desperate times in a weak economy — albeit said to be improving as was predicted last year and now amended to this year. Continue →