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This report analyses the school design requirements in force in LAC countries.
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This publication illustrates key Disaster Risk Management concepts and reviews DRM in the school systems of six LAC countries.
By delivering efficient, cost-effective and innovative maintenance services, well-designed output and performance-based road maintenance contracts can help maintain road assets and achieve value-for-money.
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Global Infrastructure Hub Chief Executive Officer Chris Heathcote says quality public infrastructure can promote greater affluence and spark global growth. Mr Heathcote told a Public-Private Partnership Seminar in Athens that “infrastructure changes lives and changes economies”.
This guide outlines five steps in the context of achieving a knowledge exchange, (i) Anchor the knowledge exchange, (ii) Define the knowledge exchange, (iii) Design and develop the knowledge exchange, (iv) Implement the knowledge exchange, (v) report the results. Case studies from South America and Africa are discussed with reference to this guide.
The Piracicaba-Panorama concession in Sao Paulo is one of the largest road concessions in Brazil, spanning a network of highways that covers 1,200km of distance
Existing bus services along the Broadway corridor, one of Vancouver's busiest, were proving increasingly inadequate in the face of growing transportation demand
Lifelines lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience—the ability of infrastructure systems to function and meet users’ needs during and after a natural shock—and it makes an economic case for building more resilient infrastructure.
On 3 August 2016, the Lowy Institute hosted Global Infrastructure Hub CEO Chris Heathcote in conversation with G20 Studies Centre Project Director Tristram Sainsbury.
Innovating Infrastructure is a new podcast from the GI Hub that showcases new and emerging technology-based solutions to infrastructure challenges. Hosted by GI Hub’s Director of Thought Leadership, Monica Bennett the ten-part series delves deep into these solutions to find out how they will create impact towards a more resilient future.
InfraChallenge
Preparations for the London 2012 Olympics involved 137 projects each in separate contracts of varying scale, from major works including the 80,000-seat Olympic stadium, through to preparation works at small-scale competition spaces. The program was delivered amid a local environment of heavy government, media, regulatory, and public scrutiny that demanded the program be delivered on-time with positive health and safety, quality, and environmental and sustainability outcomes .
Taiyuan, like most northern cities in China, faces a serious shortage of clean heating and heat sources. Under the double pressure of environmental protection and people's livelihood, the Taiyuan government has adopted a low-cost, low energy consumption, environmental protection, which takes into account environment, peoples? livelihood and safety such as the Gujiao power plant, a long-distance transmission heat supply project using waste disposal heat.
A significant risk for foreign investors in developing and frontier markets is exchange rate risk, which can greatly alter a project’s rate of return.
This use case explores technologies that decrease Scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment processes.
To service the increased demand and protect Sydney’s inland waterways, Sydney Water commissioned three major inland wastewater treatment plant upgrade projects – Riverstone Wastewater Treatment Plant, Quakers Hill Water Recycling Plant, and St Marys Water Recycling Plant.
This report analyzes the major transformational economic opportunities and challenges which include tourism, labor mobility, ICT, oceanic tuna fisheries, deep sea minerals, climate change and natural disasters, and non-communicable diseases in Pacific Island countries.
A G20 report prepared by the Global Infrastructure Hub reviewing the extent to which Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) create incentives within their organisations to crowd-in private finance to fund public infrastructure.
The MDBs Joint Declaration of Aspirations on Actions to Support Infrastructure Investment is a tool developed to ensure that MDBs work together to scale up infrastructure investment and attract private sector investment.
Multilateral Development Banks led by the International Finance Corporation - published a new joint platform, Global Toolbox, in January 2018.
