A Systems Approach to Infrastructure’, will provide an opportunity and resource for infrastructure owners/sponsors in the public sector and engineering and programme management consultants/ contractors in the private sector to come together, develop a common understanding and competence in using an integrated, systems approach for effective management and delivery of infrastructure systems, learn from the experience and lessons learned on major programmes around the world, and work with academics and researchers to understand and set the direction of future research in this area.

Course Description

The key topics of this programme are:

• Infrastructure policy
• Case Studies: Achieving smart, sustainable, resilient or NZE planning & design.
• Lessons Learned on mega Programmes
• Complexity of infrastructure systems: interface and interdependencies between water, transport, energy etc
• Systems Thinking for Programme Recovery
• Systems Approach to Programme Management
• Infrastructure financing
• Role of emerging technologies and contribution of start-ups
• Current state of research and new directions