What’s at stake:New Zealand faces an infrastructure deficit, with transport and water networks, in particular, struggling to keep up. Improving infrastructure is seen as one of the key factors in lifting the country’s productivity and economic performance.
Background:Local councils and central government have not invested enough in infrastructure, including maintaining and renewing existing assets.
Main players:The Government and Opposition, local councils, infrastructure firms, Infrastructure Commission, Downer, Craig West, Beca, Amelia Linzey, Fulton Hogan, Civil Contractors New Zealand, Alan Pollard, PwC, Natalie McClew, Chorus, Mark Aue.
New Zealand’s infrastructure sector has many moving parts and key players that all have a voice in how to build and rebuild the country from the ground up.
There are the politicians in central government, as well as locally elected councillors and leaders in the regions.
And, it’s safe to say,
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What’s at stake:New Zealand faces an infrastructure deficit, with transport and water networks, in particular, struggling to keep up. Improving infrastructure is seen as one of the key factors in lifting the country’s productivity and economic performance.
Background:Local councils and central government have not invested enough in infrastructure, including maintaining and renewing existing assets.
Main players:The Government and Opposition, local councils, infrastructure firms, Infrastructure Commission, Downer, Craig West, Beca, Amelia Linzey, Fulton Hogan, Civil Contractors New Zealand, Alan Pollard, PwC, Natalie McClew, Chorus, Mark Aue.
