NZCID Commissioned Research
Capital Procurement in Health: The Potential for PPPs in New Zealand
March 2012
New Zealand district health boards identify around $5.5 billion of desired health capital investment over the next ten years, of which $4.3 billion is unfunded.1 In order to fund this growth through traditional means, the Government will need to invest a further $200-300 million each year above and beyond its existing capital budget.
Should the Government determine that the projects set out in district health board capital plans necessitate funding, yet find financial resources insufficient, it may be able to leverage existing and potential private investment to achieve its policy goals.
NZCID - Capital Proucrement in Health - The Potential for PPPs in New Zealand
Options for Improving Social Housing in New Zealand: Lessons from Australia
In May 2011, the New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development (NZCID) and the Australian Trade Commission led a delegation of around 30 public and private sector social and community housing industry representatives to Australia. The purpose of the visit was to investigate alternative methods for delivering nonprivate housing stock which might be applicable to New Zealand.
The delegation looked at three different housing projects currently under development in Sydney and Melbourne, each of which was undertaken using a different procurement model.
Options for Improving Social Housing in NZ - Executive Summary
Funding Infrastructure
NZCID, GA Research
April 2011
New research shows New Zealanders would prefer new infrastructure to be paid for through user pays and public-private partnerships (PPPs).
Support was low for government borrowing or raising taxes to pay for new infrastructure, research conducted for the New Zealand Council of Infrastructure (NZCID) shows.
The research, conducted by GA Research and strategic communications firm Kreab Gavin Anderson, will be presented at this week's NZCID conference on PPPs in Wellington. The research involved focus groups in urban and regional New Zealand and a quantitative telephone survey of 500 people from across the country. click here>
New Zealand Infrastructure Survey 2010 launched by Ernst & Young in conjunction with NZCID
For further information, please contact:
Ben King
Executive Director
Infrastructure Advisory
Ernst & Young
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Transaction Advisory Services
Ernst & Young
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Insights for New Zealand: Infrastructure Development in Comparative Nations
NZCID
October 2010
Co-written by Stephen Selwood and Paul Buetow, Infrastructure Partner at law firm Kensington Swan, following a study trip to Canada and Europe. The report provides understanding of how comparable economies (in size, population, social and environmental ethos) such as British Columbia in Canada, Denmark and Sweden have managed to build impressive high quality infrastructure to support economic growth whilst enhancing their social and sustainability agendas.
Click here to read the report.
Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency of Approval Processes for Significant Infrastructure Projects
NZCID
May 2010
Balancing national and regional infrastructure needs against social, environmental, community and individual interests is almost always a vexed issue.
Past experience has shown that with good long term asset management planning, and with extensive and robust consultation processes, well developed infrastructure proposals can and do proceed successfully through the RMA process. But the costs are often extremely high, and, in some cases, infrastructure projects of national significance can take up to a decade or more before they are eventually approved. Not only does this inhibit New Zealand’s productive capacity, such delays also constrain the social and environmental benefits of improved infrastructure. The key questions are whether existing processes are adequate to enable timely decisions to meet the nation’s infrastructure needs and how can they be improved to provide for integrated and balanced consideration of community needs against wider, social, environmental and economic imperatives? More>
Infrastructure Projects Deferred by Councils: 2009-19 LTCCP
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
May 2009
NZCID engaged PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to carry out an assessment of Long Term Council Community Plans (LTCCP's) to establish funding changes for major infrastructure projects between the 2006 and 2009 plans.
PwC were also asked to evaluate the implications of deferring infrastructure spend and examine the options that councils have to fund major infrastructure projects.
For more information click here> NZCID members are able to review the full report and access further research data by contacting admin@nzcid.org.nz
NZCID Policy Priorities for Advancing Economic Infrastructure Development in New Zealand
For more information and the full paper, click here>
National Water Industry 2008 Report Card and Roadmap to 2020
The New Zealand water industry plays a key role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of our people, the national economy and New Zealand's position as a developed nation. Commissioned by NZCID, independent research and analysis was conducted by GHD and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, to provide an objective assessment of the state of the New Zealand water industry.
Read the report here> or read the executive summary here>
Connecting...to our Digital Future Report
What will it take to lift New Zealand's Information Communications Technology capacity to world class standard?
This report analyses the current state of New Zealand's ICT infrastructure and makes recommendations for both industry and government to ensure New Zealand has the physical infrastructure required to meet of digital future goals of being in the top quartile of the OECD by 2015.
Connecting...to Our Digital Future: Executive Summaries
Connecting...to Our Digital Future: Full Report
Connecting...to Our Digital Future:Appendices
GHD & NZCID (2006) Meeting New Zealand's Transport Needs to 2025
This report develops a 20 year future vision of New Zealand's transport infrastructure needs, and identifies what needs to change in order for this vision to be most effectively delivered. This project includes significant input from across New Zealand, including: equity owners, service providers, public sector agencies, major infrastructure users.
NZCID, Transport 2025 Summary analysis (2006).
GHD, Meeting New Zealand's transport infrastructure needs to 2025
Kensington Swan & NZCID (2006) Infrastructure Development in Comparative Nations
This report places New Zealand infrastructure in the context of recent international investigations on: the role of government; the nature and extent of national infrastructure development planning; planning approval and environmental consent processes; governance; responsibility for implementation; and best practice in the use of the private sector.
NZCID & Kensington Swan (2006) Infrastructure development in comparative nations - Insights for NZ
Media Brief - NZCID Launch Infrastructure development in comparative nations
NZIER & NZCID (2005) Summary Infrastructure Benchmarks
Many constraints currently appearing in infrastructure raise questions about whether New Zealand infrastructure is sufficient to meet current and future needs, and whether the country is spending enough relative to other countries with which it competes. This report employs a benchmarking comparison of infrastructure in New Zealand and Australia, as an estimation of likely scale of infrastructure provision required to meet expected economic growth.
NZCID & NZIER (2005) Summary infrastructure benchmarks
Ascari Partners & NZCID (2005) The Environment for PPPs in New Zealand
The paper examines the theoretical justification for PPPs, looking specifically at the New Zealand situation with a critique of progress to date on three key projects, ALPURT B2, the Tauranga Harbour Link and the Toll Systems Project (TSP). The critique considers the delivery models employed for these projects and asks whether opportunities for private sector involvement have been missed. The paper then considers the opportunities within the LTMA framework, and concludes with a series of recommendations that can be taken now under the current legislative framework and options for statutory reform.
Ascari Partners (2005) The environment for PPPs in NZ
GHD & NZCID (2005) Comparing Infrastructure in Australia & New Zealand
Infrastructure can be considered to have two major elements: hard infrastructure such as roads, power stations and water supplies; and soft infrastructure1 such as the policies and procedures that encourage competitiveness, growth and innovation. This report focuses on hard infrastructure as that is a precondition for soft infrastructure policies to work. This report provides an overview of the issues and challenges associated with New Zealand's infrastructure.
NZCID & GHD (2005) Comparing Infrastructure in Australian & NZ