Delivering energy infrastructure needs people, capability, and cohesion
Australia's energy transition requires more than technical plans. Discover four ways to build the people, culture and capability to deliver infrastructure at scale.
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Aurecon contributed to this Committee for Sydney report, which explores Greater Sydney’s interdependent network of infrastructure, assets and essential services, and the importance of greater cross-sector infrastructure resilience to minimise impacts of shocks and stresses on business and community.
Titled 'No weak links: Limiting the impact of infrastructure failure on Sydney’s essential services', the report draws on workshops and research with infrastructure leaders and service providers across Greater Sydney. It identifies five core insights for how to enable infrastructure for resilience and provides investment decision makers with recommendations for enhancing infrastructure resilience in the area.
Infrastructure is the backbone of cities and plays a key role in enabling communities to move, adapt, thrive. Key infrastructure, however, is vulnerable to known and unknown shocks and stresses. This may be due to climate related events, cyber security, increasing population growth, or ageing assets. The impacts of any shocks and stresses may cascade across whole supply chains, portfolios of assets, and networks, therefore intensifying risks for businesses and communities.
As governments and businesses continue to plan and adapt their responses to these impacts, investing in, and designing, more resilient systems is an urgent priority. Key to this is considering the role of each infrastructure asset within the broader network or system – and not in isolation. This shared view and responsibility is essential to strengthening not only the infrastructure itself, but the entire system it sits within.
This report explores the interconnectedness of all infrastructure and the importance of identifying any weak links to understand risks and determine opportunities for betterment.
Emerging from the workshops and research with infrastructure leaders and service providers workshop, were five key insights which are covered in the report:
From these five key insights, the report recommends ‘key moves’ for increasing cross-sector resilience in Greater Sydney:
This report is a step towards continued improvement in how the interconnectedness of infrastructure is understood. Risks and opportunities can then be identified as part of collaborative preparedness, planning and decision-making for improved infrastructure resilience.
Contributing authors & reviewers: Michael Nolan, Katie Vines and Arden Haar.
This report was informed by the interdisciplinary knowledge of experts and practitioners across and beyond Greater Sydney. It was prepared by Committee for Sydney with contribution from Aurecon.
About Committee for Sydney: The Committee for Sydney is the city’s urban policy think tank. It advocates for the whole of Sydney, and its broader national impact, researching and developing solutions to shared challenges.
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