Infrastructure

This is how we can get real value from infrastructure

Workers toil at the construction site of a new pier at New Priok container terminal in north Jakarta, November 26, 2014. Needing some $450 billion spent on Indonesia's infrastructure by 2019, new President Joko Widodo has ordered ministers to give private investors first pick of money-making projects rather than let state agencies grab them as they usually do. Hitherto, the government's contracting agencies got first choice of which airports, railways, toll-roads and other pieces of infrastructure to build. The ones they didn't want were offered to the private sector.  Picture taken November 26, 2014. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EABR1K0L01

Infrastructure must be made sustainable, secure and resilient, and must work within the planet’s means. Image: REUTERS/Beawiharta

Mark Enzer
Strategic Advisor, Mott MacDonald
Jennifer Schooling
Director, Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, University of Cambridge
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The 'use' of infrastructure is at the heart of everything, because people are.
The 'use' of infrastructure is at the heart of everything, because people are. Image: Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction
Our built environment is an interconnected system of systems.
Our built environment is an interconnected system of systems. Image: Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction
Infrastructure underpins sustainable development.
Infrastructure underpins sustainable development. Image: Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction
Our infrastructure needs effective connections between physical and digital assets - to become a cyber-physical system.
Our infrastructure needs effective connections between physical and digital assets - to become a cyber-physical system. Image: Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction
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