NZCID Policy Priorities for Advancing Economic Infrastructure DEvelopment in New Zealand

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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, independant research and analysis was conducted by GHD and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, to provide an objective assessment of the state of the New Zeland 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

 

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.

NZCID & Ascari Partners (2005) The Environment for PPPs in NZ.pdf(305.65 KB)

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).pdf(3,185.55 KB)

GHD, Meeting New Zealand's transport infrastructure needs to 2025.pdf(1,834.54 KB)

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.pdf(304.87 KB)

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.pdf(1,199.93 KB)

Media Brief - NZCID Launch Infrastructure development in comparative nations.pdf(91.76 KB)

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 “deficit” in infrastructure provision required to meet expected economic growth.

NZCID & NZIER (2005) Summary infrastructure benchmarks.pdf(145.79 KB)