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What if the last infrastructure in South Africa has already been built?

Does South Africa need more infrastructure? Francois Joubert shares how physical asset management can benefit SA's public and private sector.

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Engaging vulnerable populations in preparedness and response: a local government context

This paper co-authored by Aurecon's Marion Lawie argues that engaging communities proactively in preparedness and response is key to building a cohesive and resilient community.

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For Aurecon’s Matt Coetzee and Eric Kreutzer, the Greater Newcastle Metropolitan Plan emphasises best-practice in urban planning at a time when infrastructure costs are rising in step with growing and changing populations.

Plan combines vision with the realities of Newcastle communities

Aurecon’s Eric Kreutzer explore how doing the right type of planning can help drive the success of a wide-scale city initiative.

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Building the digital estate

According to Aurecon’s Chief Digital Officer Andrew Maher, rushing it to digital without a fit for purpose strategy will pose more challenges than opportunities.

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Imagine your defence future with us | Aurecon

Opportunities in tough times for South African defence

Tight budgets do not have to result in reduced outcomes for the South African defence sector. Aurecon's Lizelle Botha and Kevin Nadasen suggest ways to prioritise projects and optimise spend to ensure positive results.

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Market-led proposals: Can they play a positive role in infrastructure?

The right approach to market-led proposals can both fill existing infrastructure and service gaps within Australia and act as a disruptor for good, says Aurecon's Aneetha de Silva.

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What do career opportunities look like in the infrastructure industry?

Infrastructure design, delivery and management of the future will require roles and skill sets that range from hard technology to softer skills like stakeholder engagement, says Aurecon's William Cox.

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Aurecon’s John Webb shares how prefabrication can pave the way for Buildings of the Future in Hong Kong.

Buildings of the Future: A Hong Kong Perspective - Prefabrication

Hong Kong’s prefabrication trend in construction holds the opportunity to pave the way for Buildings of the Future.

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Charter cities: What if we could start from scratch?

With the world’s urban population predicted to surpass six billion by 2045 many are asking how cities can cope.

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How the Internet of Things will change the future of waste management in Africa

Aurecon's Nick Mannie discusses how the Internet of Things will transform waste management in Africa.

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What can New Zealand’s Defence Estate Regeneration Investment Programme learn from the Australian experience?

Insights from Across the Tasman: What can New Zealand’s Defence Estate Regeneration Investment Programme learn from the Australian experience?

Like NZ, the Australian Estate is made of land, buildings, and infrastructure, among others that make it the country's core capability enabler.

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Building the bridges to Asia’s future prosperity

Aurecon's Technical Director Mike Tapley explains how Asia's unique geography makes it one of the most exciting places to be a bridge engineer.

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Collaboration is a clear winner with early contractor involvement

In the third of four Aurecon thinking papers on project transformation in UK, Steve Rowsell and John Mason discuss the early contractor involvement (ECI).

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Changing behaviours to streamline projects

In this second of four Aurecon thinking papers, Steve Rowsell of Rowsell Wright focuses on trends shaping global project management and delivery.

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Creating a connected construction industry

In the first of four Aurecon thinking papers, Steve Rowsell of Rowsell Wright broadly defines the transformation UK industry went through in the 90s and 2000s.

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Delivering a Better Australia

The plan outlines Infrastructure Australia’s released its plan with views on the key infrastructure priorities, reforms, and major projects for Australia.

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A new lens for looking at value for money

Research findings into major infrastructure procurement suggest we need to shift our understanding of project funding given the global financial crisis.

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Delivering programme excellence

Programme management is most commonly the process of managing a number of interrelated projects to deliver new or enhanced infrastructure, such as a new metro system, an airport, a mine, a power station or even the Olympic Games.

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Grappling with risk complexity: an insight into multi-scalar and multi-dimensional risk scenarios

In this article, Simon van Wyk and Carin Joyce discuss the multi-scalar and multi-dimensional nature (complexity) of risks, with a special focus on the interconnectedness of operational and disaster risk, with Civil Engineering magazine.

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The way forward on waste management

Nick Mannie – Technical Director, Waste – relates how the Merafong City Local Municipality took bold steps towards ensuring sustainable waste management solutions, and shares lessons that can be learnt from their actions.

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A critical analysis of the coastal management act

With the promulgation and enactment of the National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, a paradigm shift in coastal management has occurred in South Africa.

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Corporate social investment in South Africa: when working together, solutions are possible

“As corporates and as individuals, we vastly underestimate the power we have to transform our communities . . . ” - Ronnie Khoza on Corporate Social Investment in South Africa

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Sustainable solutions to South Africa's waste challenges

Nick Mannie – Technical Director, Waste – was recently interviewed about finding sustainable solutions to South Africa’s waste challenges.

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Luggage Point Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Australia

Water infrastructure assets: An integrated approach to programme, portfolio and project delivery

Aurecon’s Programme, Portfolio and Project Delivery Leader John Mason says that programme and portfolio management offer benefits to the planning, delivery and maintenance of water infrastructure.

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The transition towards a sustainable Public Private Partnership regime

Governments across the world are increasingly embracing the use of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to deliver infrastructure services.

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Challenges for programmes

This thinking paper focuses on programme management, we discuss what challenges programmes experience and how is it possible to identify when a programme is experiencing difficulties.

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Creating efficient, liveable cities

In this interview, Deon Pretorius, Aurecon’s Land Development Services Leader in Cape Town, describes some of the barriers to creating efficient cities as well as current trends and the solutions and innovations Aurecon is leveraging to help our clients ‘get it right’.

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How does programme management differ from project management?

In late 2012, Aurecon held a leadership workshop at its Gauteng office in South Africa where colleagues from across our business took time to discuss critical issues, developments and trends in Programme and Project Management.

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Will urbanisation break the big cities?

Currently, about 60 million people move into cities every year. That’s more than one million more people arriving every week, in a city somewhere in the world, each with an expectation of better access to jobs, better education for their children, better health-care and a better quality of life.

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Abbas Jamie from Aurecon talking about Our African City

Why Aurecon initiated Our African City (OAC)

The concept of Our African City and the need to create a dialogue around inclusive transformation stemmed from the question: What does a future African city look like?

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Why your asset management needs change

In this article, we highlight useful ways in which we have managed to reduce the failure rate of asset management adoption by looking at the required steps through the lens of change management.

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What is Our African City (OAC)?

Our African City is about bringing together leading expertise across the financial, political, technical and social spheres to collaborate in developing new thinking and solutions that address inclusive urban transformation. It is about opening the debate on and crafting a vision of what an African city should look like and how to innovatively address the challenges we face to leapfrog stages on our development path. The dialogue is hosted through various platforms, including the OurAfricanCity.org website and scheduled events and workshops under the Our African City brand. As the dialogue matures, new thinking from participating companies and organisations, including Aurecon, will be published.

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