INFRASTRUCTURE:
Building for Tomorrow’s Competition

THIS MONTH’S ISSUE
Why We chose…
INFRASTRUCTURE
ROME HAD ROADS AND AQUEDUCTS WELL AHEAD OF ANY OF IT’S RIVALS.
ITS EMPIRE TOWERED ABOVE THE WORLD FOR CENTURIES.
The dark ages were ushered in when disorganized peoples from Northern Europe let that infrastructure fall into
disrepair. What followed was centuries of ill health, isolation, ignorance and death.
The fate of our collective industry is about more than the bureaucratic policies of the Department of Public Works,
but of our future prosperity.

THIS MONTH’S ISSUE
Why We chose…
INFRASTRUCTURE
As you know from prior STEEP Reports, there are several strategic
changes that await us: from a global talent crunch to urbanization,
from immigration to “clean” industries.
While many pieces are in play, one will greatly control how – and
where – the rest of the chips fall. We’re talking about
infrastructure. The physical capital of bridges, roads, ports, rail, and
electrical grids doesn’t just provide the basic necessities of today, but
actually functions as the roots of future economic productivity.
As such, to understand what will provide the underpinnings of all the
other decisions you will be making, this issue of the Competitive
Futures STEEP Report, studies the major trends in infrastructure
around the world.

A personal note on
Why We chose…
INFRASTRUCTURE
On July 30, 2007, Competitive Futures president Eric Garland was
attending the international congress of the World Future Society, held
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Enjoying the beautiful Midwestern summer nights, he went jogging
every evening over the Hennepin bridge, located next to Interstate 35,
which connects St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The following evening during rush hour, for no apparent
reason, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed, killing 13
commuters.
A world-class infrastructure has been one of the hallmarks
of the United States’ economy. If this infrastructure is
threatened in the future, its impact will be broad reaching
and instructive for businesses around the world.

Today’s success was built on yesterday’s investments.
Tomorrow’s success will depend on what you build TODAY.
The long-term future success of your company may likely depend
on the infrastructural decisions made today.
1. Inform yourself about the state of the infrastructure on
which you depend.
2.Communicate with your government about the need for
infrastructure. It’s the future of their tax base, too.

Infrastructure: The Global View
The world economy will require
$30 trillion in infrastructure over the next 20 years –
repaired bridges, new roads, water treatment, airports, ports, and much more
Competitive Futures Rules for Managing the Future #5:
Whenever people are going to write checks for
BILLIONS or TRILLIONS, pay attention

Those trillions of dollars will be spent because:
1.1 billion people around the world lack access to clean water
2.6 billion people around the world lack the basic necessity of a
toilet
1.6 billion people worldwide lack access to electricity
Billions of dollars are lost worldwide in fuel waste and lost
productivity by traffic congestion
Thousands of bridges waiting to be replaced
Billions of dollars of trade could be unleashed by roads, bridges,
and ports in emerging economies

The Trends

AT A GLANCE: Today’s infrastructure policies around the world
Europe – Increasing connectivity among
U.S - No strategy E.U. countries, modernizing Eastern
for infrastructure member states
development;
coasting from old
investments Middle East –
Investing petro-
profits in next-
gen cleantech
infrastructure
China – World
top investor in
infrastructure
Subsaharan
Africa –
relying on
crumbling
Latin America –
colonial
overwhelmed; Australia –
infrastructure;
expanding through coasting
receiving help
privatization
from China

Which countries are
investing for tomorrow?

CHINA:
Planning to compete through infrastructure
China is investing a full 9% of its GDP in infrastructure
No other country is close.
China invested $400 billion in
transportation projects scheduled to be
completed by 2010. Some examples:
• 6 high-speed passenger railways, including a
route from Beijing to Shanghai
• 14 expressways, including a road from Hong
Kong to Beijing
• Dredging the Yangtze and Pearl rivers and
expanding road and rail systems to connect
to major ports
The Three Gorges Dam:
Sometimes, you need dictatorship
• Expansions of 10 airports, including construction
to get big projects done
of the world's largest terminal building in Beijing.

Consider Shanghai – the infrastructure of the future
While the United States watches bridges collapse at random, China is engaging in world-class
megaprojects aimed at increasing its competitiveness.
Chief among these is SHANGHAI, which is building:
Mag-lev train from the airport to the city center
Ten ring roads, dozens of superhighways
Bullet train connecting Shanghai to Beijing
World’s highest capacity deep-water port

Consider just China’s roadways…
China went from only 169 miles (271 km) of highways in 1989, to approximately 25,000
miles (40,000 km) of highways today.
As it expands manufacturing and commercial growth, the country plans to expand its
highways to a total of 51,250 miles (82,000 km), reaching out into the rural areas as well as
the already-vibrant Pacific coast.

EUROPE:
Growing closer through shared infrastructure
Europe is focused on increasing the connectivity
between EU member states:
EU countries connecting transport, telecommunications, and
energy networks to promote mobility and economic synergy.
Planners building and expanding various north–south, east–
west road and rail corridors, connecting to seaports, airports,
and major cities.
The Millau Bridge, France

EUROPE:
Growing closer through shared infrastructure
In SPAIN, a15-year, $375 billion plan to add 5,625 miles (9,000 km) of high-speed rail
(up from 625 miles [1,000 km]) and 3,750 miles (6,000 km) of new highways (expanding
from 5,625 miles [9,000 km]). By 2020, 95% of the population within 18.75 miles (30 km)
of a highway and 90 percent within 31 miles (50 km) of a high-speed rail station
GERMANY looking to add a new high-speed rail line linking Cologne and Munich,
maintain its rail and trucking infrastructure to continue economic growth
UK - The government seeks to double rail ridership by 2030 and considers expanding
high-speed rail north of London, linking Manchester and Scotland
FRANCE - A new freight canal into Belgium is to be built, along with the highest-speed
rail line in the world
RUSSIA - A new $2.5 billion state investment fund targets financing transport projects,
though much will be managed by private investors

Infrastructure in Europe:
Improving a variety of social problems.
Think broadly about the definition of infrastructure – it’s not just for driving on!
We find it interesting that investments in infrastructure can be used to improve a number of social or
commercials problems. Consider Germany:
With a birthrate of 1.4 per couple and 33% of its women refusing to have children, Germany is facing a
future where the social security system could go bankrupt by 2030, and where the total population of
ethnic Germans could reach only 10 million people of German descent by 2050, down from 80
million today.
For Chancellor Angela Merkel, the answer to infertility is infrastructure.The German government is
investing in child care, nursery schools, and tax credits for young people willing to have babies.

The Middle East: Converting petro-dollars into
Cleantech Infrastructure
Just because they are sitting on all the petroleum doesn’t mean that the Gulf
States are ignoring tomorrow’s needs.
Abu Dhabi, once known for petroleum and pearls, will be host to what is planned as the
world’s first zero carbon, zero waste city. In addition to investing aggressively in cleantech
ventures, the city will rely entirely on solar and other renewable energy sources. The city is
being constructed 17 kilometers (11 mi) east-south-east of the city of Abu Dhabi, next to its
airport.

Africa:
Crumbling infrastructure keeps people in poverty
We know that Africa remains impoverished, but
poor transportation infrastructure is a major
reason why.
For example, people living in cities benefit from
cheaper goods, while people in the
countryside must pay more. Meanwhile, the
vegetables sell for the least in their own
villages, but getting them into the cities is very
expensive with the poor infrastructure.
Prices remain high, profits remain low, keeping
the African countryside in desperate time.

Africa:
Small improvements go a long way
The UN’s Fund for Agricultural Development
estimates that African villages with better
infrastructure:
• Produce 1/3 more crops per hectare than those
with poor infrastructure
• Earn wages 12% higher
• Pay 14% less for fertilizer

Africa:
Relying on deteriorated colonial infrastructure
The colonial infrastructure was built in Africa
to extract natural resources, not
provide economic and cultural
connections between nations.
• Transport costs for Africa's 16 landlocked
countries are on the average 50% higher than for
coastal counties.
• A World Bank official estimates that the cost of
doing business is twice as high in Africa as it is
in East Asia and 30% higher than any other
region.
As a result, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced that 60
percent of its funds for low-income countries will go to support infrastructure
such as roads, dams, and bridges through 2011.

Infrastructure in Africa:
A questionable past forces a new debate on the future of
international development
Recommending investment in Africa can get complicated. For
decades, the policies of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
were to recommend that African nations borrow vast sums to create a World Is this an exaggeration?
Not by much.
One infrastructure.
The only problem was, in African military kleptocracies, the typical scenario
went as such:
1. Borrow millions from World Bank, ostensibly for bridges, roads,
electrical grid, etc.
2. Take 50% of loan. Deposit in Swiss numbered bank account.
3. Take 25% of loan. Buy German luxury cars, new weapons for
personal defense forces.
4. Take remaining 25% of loan. Half-construct shoddy road, bridge,
pipeline, or other.
5. Do not complete projects.
6. Do not repay loans. Doom country to both substandard
infrastructure and crushing debt.
7. Flee to London when opposition forces seize capital.
8. Get Bono from U2 to suggest the World Bank forgive loans in name
of world peace.

So, who will invest in Africa’s infrastructure? China.
The Chinese are making a big impact in
Africa, building much-needed
infrastructure.
In 2006, China pledged $10 billion towards
building Africa's infrastructure. China plans to
build roads, railways, power stations and
bridges at costs that experts believe are 25-
30% below their Western counterparts'.
They may be the direct economic benificiary
of this new infrastructure since, China has
negotiated 2500 separate deals for supply
raw materials from Africa.
Note: The Chinese are using their own labor forces for
this infrastructure, which does not benefit the local
African economies. This is causing residual tension
between the locals and the foreign construction firms.

Latin America: overwhelmed by needs of growing populations
• 58 million Latin Americans lack access to potable water
•137 million don’t have adequate sanitation
•Less than half of Mexico’s 213,000-mile road system is paved
•Only 12 percent of Brazil’s 1 million mile road system is paved

Latin America: building basic infrastructure
Trash collection and
maintenance
Water and sewage treatment
Basic latrines for rural areas
Extending electricity
Expanding road system,
paving “connector” roads

Latin America today: A few take steps to modernize
In Mexico -New five-year, $250 billion program targets
modernizing 12,400 miles (19,840 km) of highways and
rural roads to international standards, expanding rails
by 930 miles (1,488 km), and developing suburban rail,
particularly around the Mexico City gateway.
Brazil - $237 billion in public and private investments
between 2007 and 2010, most coming from state-
owned companies. About $56 billion targets new
housing projects and $21 billion covers sanitation and
sewage treatment in slums.
PANAMA - The country widens its nearly 100-year-old
canal to ensure a Central American passage for the
new generation of supersized freighters and tankers.
The $5 billion expansion is scheduled for completion by
2014.

China versus Latin America:
Why not manufacture in our own backyard?
Question:
Why did North American companies choose to manufacture in China instead
of Latin America?
Think of it. If cheap labor was the impetus behind developing a low-cost manufacturing sector,
why did the West make deals with a Communist country across the Pacific instead with its
neighbors to the south?
El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and others are much closer than China, have both educated work forces
and inexpensive low-skill labor, and speak romance languages that are far easier to translate
(linguistically and culturally.) So why go all the way to China?
?

China versus Latin America:
Infrastructure was the deciding factor
Answer:
An average of 43 days is needed to ship goods out of El Salvador, including the export
documentation, port & terminal handling, customs and inspection, and
pre-arrival documentation.
This is why CAFTA is reinvesting heavily in commercial infrastructure to
assure the future success of the region - $300 Million in the Port of Monkey
Point (Nicaragua), US$200 Million in the Port of La Union (El Salvador), and
US$300 Million in the Port of Cortés (Honduras).

The United States : coasting on old investments
For a $13 trillion economy that drove the 20th Century, it is difficult
to find evidence of a cohesive infrastructure plan on which the
United States will build its 21st Century success.
The levees at Lake I-35W Bridge, Minneapolis New York City water system,
Pontchartrain, New Orleans leaking 20% of its capacity

Once upon a time, the United States undertook massive projects in the
construction of a world-class infrastructure

Since the construction highway system in the 1960s,
the US has had NO national infrastructure agenda

Today, the America Society of Civil Engineers (which built the Interstate Highway System)
recommends $1.6 trillion in reinvestment in national infrastructure in the next five
years, including – but not limited to – the following projects:
Circle Interchange, Chicago
Brooklyn Bridge
Canal Lock, New Orleans
Atlanta water system
Alaskan Way Viaduct
Lake Okechobee, Florida
Dover Bridge, Idaho
Wolf Creek Dam, Kentucky

Congestion in both road and rail is costing the U.S. billions
Back in the 1960s, the United States was unified by the national effort to
connect its cities by the construction of the Interstate Highway System, which
served for decades as an example to the world.
• Approximately 24% of major roads in the
Today, slow trains,
U.S. are in “poor to mediocre
clogged highways.
condition.”
• 25.4 percent of bridges in the U.S. are
structurally deficient or obsolete
• Americans spend 4.2 billion hours stuck
in traffic per year
• Traffic congestion wastes $3 billion of
gas a year
• The use of public transportation has
The Washington DC Beltway – increased 32% since 1995 – investment
Don’t get us started has not kept up that pace

US infrastructure: suffering from clogged arteries

Key Challenges

Key Challenges
•Funding
How to fund these massive investments? Government funding? Private? User fees?
•Strategic planning for future
Quantity vs. quality. Smart, strategic, well-planned development needed.
•Political obstacles
How to push through political barriers? China’s competitive advantage.
• Public perception
How to regain public trust in developing countries after massive infrastructure failures/
private corruption?
•Corruption/ kickbacks
Kickbacks are common with infrastructure projects in many countries.
How to limit them to improve efficiency/ public benefit?

Why You Should Care

Strategic implications –
why you should care
The global need for infrastructure investment over the next 20 years
$30 trillion is a presents a major business opportunity. Materials, engineering,
LOT of business architecture, design, chemicals, automotive, logistics, IT – all these
opportunity
industries are implicated, and positioned to make major revenue
from these projects.
The need for massive infrastructure investment worldwide comes at
Talent crunch
meets massive the same time as the world faces a talent crunch. There likely won’t
infrastructure needs be enough civil engineers and crane operators to go around.
If your competition can’t get its products out of the ports and
Infrastructure is the warehouses to meet customer demand, they can’t very well compete.
future of
Available infrastructure is the determinant of the future winners and
competition
losers in tomorrow’s markets.

Strategic implications –
why you should care
As the West and Asia Pacific move to more sophisticated, higher-
The rich/poor gap output infrastructure, the economic position of the global South
threatens to widen could fall even further by comparison. Governments and NGOs must
be aware of future economic development challenges.
Sitting in traffic is fun for nobody. But in a world of expensive
Traffic will go from petroleum, this annoyance will become expensive enough to put
annoying to transport companies and many manufacturers in jeopardy.
economically fatal
People talk all the time about the “green revolution” or a
commitment to clean industries. It is practically impossible to create
Cleantech will be
decided by
a zero-carbon industry on 19th or 20th century infrastructure.
infrastructure Therefore, trillions in infrastructure must redesigned. This isn’t a
bad thing – in fact it represents trillions in opportunity, and the real
possibility for a better world tomorrow.

What To Do Today

Recommended options:
What can you do today?
Assess Infrastructure – it’s not just for countries. When taking the long-range
competitors’ view assessing competitor strengths and weaknesses, examine where
futures by their their long-range dollars are going: facilities, human capital, R&D
infrastructural
programs, leadership. If they haven’t got the capital assets, their
investments
advantage will weaken.
Lobby your Deficient investment in infrastructure cannot be borne by individual
national companies or industries – these are valuable goods that belong to all
government to people of a nation, and as such can only be financed through the
take the long view government. Policymakers must be advised that their future tax base will
on infrastructure be assured only through rather expensive projects.
Look at your To better examine your own strategy, and to help government officials to
global operations decide what is required for tomorrow’s economy – make an inventory of
– now and in the
your own needs – now and in the future – in terms of industry. Do you
future – and
determine what need rail for shipping, trolleys to bring your employees to work, ports for
you require for global logistics?
infrastructure

Addendum:
Infrastructure- By the Numbers
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Addendum:
Infrastructure- By the Numbers
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Addendum:
Infrastructure- By the Numbers
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