NAPIER & Blakeley is bringing its expertise and expanding into the burgeoning infrastructure maintenance sector.
Napier & Blakeley’s infrastructure specialist and associate director Roger Ingram said infrastructure maintenance should not be taken lightly.
According to Ingram, one of the key issues organisations face when modifying or relocating existing infrastructure is maintenance.
“For example, if you are carrying out maintenance on a highway, you need to ensure that temporary roads and intersections are built to minimise traffic inconvenience and dysfunction. It is in these situations that hidden and substantial costs can emerge,” he added.
Ingram said organisations often overlook the implications of damaging infrastructure even during regular maintenance activities and the possible costs of damaging infrastructure are highly significant.
“For instance, if you damage a backbone optical fibre cable network between two major cities, telecommunications organisations can often require substantial levels of compensation.
“It is too great a risk to not engage an infrastructure management organisation when carrying out these types of works. Napier & Blakeley is committed to ensuring you manage your cost, risk, return equation proactively and efficiently,” he continued. “Napier & Blakeley can assist identify infrastructure construction cost risks, and commercially assess and quantify those risks for clients. This is a critical aspect of any infrastructure management process,”
Ingram said infrastructure is everything that supports a community; roads, rail, water, electricity, gas and phones. This definition can be further supplemented by structures such as schools, hospitals, public buildings and power stations.
According to Invest
Victoria has a total of $13 billion in infrastructure spending, New South Wales’ capital expenditure is expected to total $49.6 billion and Western Australia’s capital works program will total $21.6 billion.
And the Federal Government has recently allocated $22.3 billion to be invested from 2009-10 to 2013-14 to improve
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