Canterbury Strategy & Policy Forum 18 August 2014 Presenter: Grant Holland, Waugh Infrastructure Management Ltd

1. Infrastructure Strategies
Canterbury Strategy & Policy Forum
18 August 2014
Presenter: Grant Holland,
Waugh Infrastructure Management Ltd

2. Preface
 Views Presented at IPWEA NZ
Infrastructure Strategy Workshop (1
August 2014)
 SOLGM’s Jigsaw IV
 Discussions with Office of the Auditor-
General
 Waugh Infrastructure Management Ltd’s
opinions

3. What Is It?
 A “Strategy”?
 A “Super Summary” of the Expenditure
Forecast?
 An “Asset Strategy” as per ISO5500?
 OR a combination of all three?

4. What Is It?
 The missing building block in section 101A
s101A (2)(a)
the local authority’s proposals for funding and
expenditure
s101A (3)(a)
the expected changes in population and the
use of land in the district or region, and the
capital and operating costs of providing for
those changes....

5. What Is It?
A synthesis of the issues, response and spend
ahead
DEMAND ACTIONSRESPONSE

6. What Is Required?
 At least 30 year horizon
 Significant infrastructure issues
 Principal option and implications of those
options
 Infrastructural Asset* Management
* 3 Waters
* Roads and Footpaths
* Flood Protection

7. What Is Required?
 Renewals
 Response to growth/decline
 Level of Service Change (Identify which
driver)
 Public Health and Environmental outcomes
 Resilience to natural hazards
 Most likely management scenario
 Capital and operating expenditure for
Infrastructural Assets
 10 years + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 Forecasts

8. What Is Required?
 Significant decisions required
 What, When, Options
 Scale and cost
 Assumptions
 Lifecycle of Infrastructural Assets*
 Demand
 Levels of Service
 Levels of uncertainty and their effects

9. What Might It Look Like?
Who is the Audience?

10. How is it Populated?
 From existing strategic documents, studies
and reports (direction)
 LTP assumptions
 From AMPs ( issues, proposed responses,
actions and estimated expenditure)
 The Infrastructure Strategy is also seen as an
asset strategy considering component
condition, network performance and the
maintenance and renewal approach
employed. This links with the funding
strategy.

11. Is that Information Reliable Enough?
 How long have we been
doing this for?
(Remember New
Zealanders are good
at AM!)
 Uncertainty =>
assumptions
 Do we state as fact or
‘couched’?
Source: Jigsaw IV

12. What Should I Do Now?
 Make some decisions and set
process in place
 Identify the strategic inputs
 ‘Lock down’ assumptions
 Keep AMPs on target
 Consider Cost Effectiveness
(s10 and s17)
 Challenge linear thinking
- various scenarios

13. Contacts
Grant Holland
Waugh Infrastructure
Management Ltd
0800 4 WAUGH
www.waughinfrastructure.com