Musings

Performance or Prescriptive Specification? Whose design?

The decision over whether to adopt an owner's design (bid-build) or design and construct form of contract involves careful consideration.

Words Matter

The Privy Council reinforces that contract terms prevail over conduct, and the limits of an Engineer's authority

What is essential infrastructure?

When earthquakes, storms, floods and other events disrupt our lives, we look for resilience that a market economy fails to provide. We all expect more.

Infrastructure planning for the future

Our essential infrastructure gets clobbered with each election cycle. This needs to change.

Long Term Infrastructure Plan?

Over the last few months, the new Government has canceled 3Waters, returning control to Councils; Auckland's second harbour crossing unlikely to proceed; and Auckland's Light Rail also

Sweating the Assets - Market Efficiency and Infrastructure Development

The frustration of affected communities at the lack of reliable infrastructure is palpable. At risk of appearing mawkish, now is actually the time to face up to the growing infrastructure