New Zealand's infrastructure asset management landscape is marked by several challenges. From ensuring resilience against natural disasters like earthquakes and floods, to addressing workforce access issues, and managing ageing assets.
We must prioritise the application of digital technologies to enhance infrastructure planning, construction, and asset management.
To do this, there is an opportunity to share challenges and learnings across sectors to move forward more quickly, and more effectively, together.
Advancing digitisation of asset management
In November last year, we sat down with key asset management and technology leaders across the transport, energy, property, and education sectors to identify shared challenges, and subsequent focus areas for 2025.
We are thrilled to share our latest InfraBytes piece that summarises these reflections and sets the tone for what we will focus on this year.
InfraBytes Insights
Connecting our global and local insights, with your digital asset management questions.
In New Zealand, the pace and scale required for to invest in transformational technlogy solutions often result in it being deferred or not done at all, causing us to fall further behind other markets. There are some real opportunities to leverage our size to our advantage - whether it is adopting and improving upon the solution of others using our smaller-scale implementations to prototype and iterate more quickly we could catch up and iterate quicker.
By leveraging digital solutions, asset owners can gain a shared view of asset value and life cycles, set and monitor performance goals, and conduct precise cost-benefit analyses for maintenance and replacement decisions. These technologies also facilitate comprehensive data collection and analysis, essential for ensuring alignment with company strategy, transparent investment planning, and robust risk management to support sustainability and resilience.
In New Zealand, attracting talent both domestically and from abroad remains a key challenge, and with an aging workforce we are losing some of the institutional knowledge and learnings we require to develop, operate and maintain our infrastructure. Enhancing the use of digital tools can help bridge the productivity gap, improve work quality by reducing manual tasks, and provide access to remote talent.
Our questions for you:
- When was your last technology implementation?
- How much did it shift the dial?
Our questions for you:
- Do you have a framework to measure asset value?
- How do you use data to guide your organisation's investments?
Our questions for you:
- Have you had some real wins integrating technology to enhance the productivity of your people, and if not, what have been the challenges?
