We don’t want to be the guy on the right slide here, right? The thing is that engineers have too many parameters and they struggle to communicate those parameters to decision-makers. What we want …
Communicating Infrastructure Management Issues and dTIMS Modeling
I guess that’s about what the dTIMS modeling and this conference are all about. It’s about that optimization of expenditure but we all know that we can get away with under-investing for a while and …
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US Infrastructure Spend and the Impact of the Recession
Coming back to US infrastructure, Long Term Spend of GDP, % of GDP. This is the Congressional Budget Office figures again. Looks pretty good, doesn’t it? The percentage of infrastructure has stayed …
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How the Recession Affected Infrastructure Funding of New Zealand
Just coming back to that New Zealand diagram, we’ve looked at that right at the start of the talk during the big recession that "Last one out turn off the lights" recession back in the late 1980s, we …
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Infrastructure Funding – A Glimpse of the US Infrastructure Spending
And the US Transportation and Water Infrastructure Spend, if we go back, this is a long-run data set from the Economist again. You can see that big lot of capital invested not like 1960 through to …
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Money and Its Impact on Infrastructure Management and Acquisition
So, moving on to the third part of this discussion today, we are going to talk about money and the impact of money and finance on infrastructure management and acquisition. One of the …
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