Building on success to date in the core strengths of water, wastewater, stormwater and environmental management, focusing on asset management, strategy and planning, investment prioritisation, procurement and contract management approaches, the Centre is actively identifying research-based opportunities that have the potential for implementation.

Looking to the future and drawing on our pool of expertise within the Faculty of Engineering and the University’s international networks, the Centre is able to provide research and thought leadership into infrastructure decision-making and masterplanning which furthers New Zealand’s quest for economic development, international competitiveness and vibrant outward-facing global cities.

The formation of the new Auckland Council brings together a large area of infrastructure responsibility affecting services to more than 1.3 million New Zealanders. The Centre for Infrastructure Research will be working with the Auckland Council in several areas of infrastructure investment.

Infrastructure project procurement and delivery mechanisms, such as alliancing, are developing in New Zealand. In collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Transport and Construction Management Research Groups, the Centre will be studying recently-initiated infrastructure projects using a new approach to alliancing to ensure that clients and service providers learn from recent innovations.