InfraRead – Te Kawepúrongo Waihanga

By Claire Edmondson, Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive

This year’s Budget is set to place a heavy emphasis on health reforms and investing to meet New Zealand’s climate change goals.

By Aurecon

With the imperative to decarbonise, New Zealand’s focus is rightly placed on promoting mode shift to public transport, walking, and cycling.

Annual inflation in the year to the March 2022 quarter rose by 6.9%, the highest increase since a 7.6% annual increase June 1990.

Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Asia Pacific Cloud Region is set to open in New Zealand in 2024. The company is a subsidiary of Amazon and provides cloud computing platforms.

Late last month, the Australian Federal Government announced its pre-election Budget. It contains record investment for infrastructure.

The Ministry of Transport released a discussion document titled Driving Change: Reviewing the Road User Charges System in January 2022.

In last month’s edition of InfraRead, we highlighted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group II report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Working Group III has since released its mitigation report titled Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.

House price growth is slowly declining – around 4% down from its peak – but prices have grown some 40% over the past two years.

Stacey Millar, Women’s Infrastructure Network Auckland Chair
Nicola Robbins, The Infrastructure Collective Wellington Chair
Diversity Advisory Board members appointed

Engineering Standards change after Canterbury Earthquake Royal Commission Inquiry
Helios Energy a new player in the growing New Zealand solar sector
Diversity Works seeking views on workplace diversity
Are you the next Deputy Chief Executive- Infrastructure and Digital Assets of Department of Corrections: Ara Poutama Aotearoa?

By Claire Edmondson, Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive

There is general agreement that our drinking water, wastewater and stormwater assets, vital to human health and that of the environment, have too long been ignored and that something needs to be done. The proposal to shift responsibility for those assets to four water entities to better enable the work required has been controversial.

By Jacobs

Even as we respond to other pressing global challenges, climate change remains one of the biggest threats to life on this planet as we know it. In the next 10 to 15 years, we face the very real scenario of average global temperature increases exceeding the 1.5-degree warming threshold set out in Paris in 2015. The need for coordinated and decisive action to decarbonise our economy and society on a global scale has never been more urgent.

By Philip Aldridge, Chief Executive, Waihanga Ara Rau

Waihanga Ara Rau Construction and Infrastructure Workforce Development Council is an industry-led government enabled organisation established on 4 October 2021 as a key part of the Reform of Vocational Education.

The costs of delivering infrastructure continue to rise.
Last month’s InfraRead outlined that annual inflation in the year to the December 2021 quarter was 5.9% – the highest increase since June 1990.

In its recently-released Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlighted the interdependent nature of climate change risks and solutions.

A range of innovative development in the renewable energy and electrification sectors is encouraging, with a number of domestic developments set to contribute to various forms of renewable energy.