This panel will explore the current state of skills and human resources in the public works sector, focusing on whether the workforce is keeping pace with the rapid growth in infrastructure projects. Industry leaders will discuss challenges, gaps, and potential strategies to ensure we have the right skills and capacity to support future infrastructure development.

Ventia has been using the Asset Vision Asset and Work Management platform to efficiently and effectively manage road assets for the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), Brisbane Airport, Toowoomba Second Crossing and recently implemented AV on their contract with Port of Brisbane for roads, bridges, open drains and drainage structures, over landscaping, vegetation and boat ramps boat ramps. The Asset Vision platform efficiently enables asset owners, contractors and sub-co...

Accelerated rates of development by both private developers and local government have resulted in public utility plant (PUP) being installed at a large scale across all asset classes including Roads, Drainage, Water, Wastewater, Communications, Electrical and Gas. To allow for the continual development and sustainability, a live and working asset register is required to be developed for all existing and future infrastructure with an emphasis of having only one source of information for the d...

Securing adequate funding for road maintenance presents a significant challenge for local governments, often hindered by limited data and subjective assessments. Accurate, real-time data on the state of road networks is essential to successful road management and funding. The Cyvl.ai platform emerges as a pivotal solution, employing robotics and Artificial Intelligence technologies to revolutionize how road data is collected, analyzed, and utilized. The Cyvl.ai Platform: Unleashing R...

The timely delivery of civil infrastructure projects holds immense significance. In the private sector, delays can profoundly impact a company’s financial well-being. Similarly, in the public sector, project delays affect residents’ benefit realization, satisfaction with services, and overall community well-being. Additionally, every asset has a finite lifetime, inherently tied to time considerations that impose urgency on rehabilitation projects. Project management methodologies play a pi...

Organisations are increasingly realising the need to work across functional and disciplinary boundaries to ensure effective Asset Management. A collaborative approach becomes more necessary as our assets become more complex. We are becoming more aware that no single function or discipline alone can know the best possible solution. The benefits of collaboration across the asset lifecycle are clear throughout the research literature. For example, early phase cross-functional collaboration is...

In the wake of recent severe weather events in Far North Queensland, significant challenges have emerged in accurately assessing and reporting the impact on council infrastructure. Anthony’s presentation delves into the critical intersections of local government finance and infrastructure management, encapsulated within the "Accounting for Infrastructure Damaged by Significant Weather Events" position paper developed between the Queensland Audit Office and Queensland Local Government Finance ...

The Balonne Shire is bordered by the Goondiwindi Region, Western Downs, Maranoa Region, Paroo Shire, and to the south, the New South Wales (NSW) border. Located in both the Balonne Shire in Queensland (QLD) and Moree Plains Shire NSW, the Mungindi township is unique in Australia for being the only border town where the name is the same in both states. Mungindi QLD is also the only Queensland town to have an NSW postcode. Mungindi has experienced frequent and heavy water restrictions and ther...

These are all terms we would have heard but what do they mean and why are they important? Increasingly, some form of community involvement is becoming mandatory when it comes to planning and delivery of infrastructure in the community. Renewable energy projects, for example, are attracting significant attention as federal and state governments legislate clean energy targets. In response, the federal government commenced a review which found that community participation is essential for the ef...