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Local Government water, transport & building infrastructure

Building Resilient Future Communities

Aging Infrastructure & Lack of Funding
Local Government organisations are burdened with aging infrastructure and lack of funding to enable renewals to continue meeting current and expected level of service to communities.
 
Managing Future Uncertainties
This is further constrained with the need to manage the impacts of climate change, protect the environment, embrace sustainability practices, and manage continued growth and demand for better infrastructure.
 
Compliance Costs
Commitments made to Resource Consents for land-use discharges to the environment are proving to be overly costly and unsustainable in the long-term putting additional burden on affordability.
 
Rapidly Increasing Supplier Costs
Supplier design and construction costs are spiraling with costs for many projects exceeding initial estimates by a significant margin. The costs to operate and maintain infrastructure have increased significantly and cutting costs is only leading to reduced design life of assets and/or a reduced level of service to communities.

Exploring Future Infrastructure Strategies
Local Government Infrastructure strategies are still being explored as we head into a future with multiple constraints, moving goal posts and high community expectations. To provide more transparency and confidence in the prioritisation of infrastructure expenditure, Local Government organisations are beginning to consider integrated management solutions and adaptive pathway planning as part of investment planning whilst trying to understand and manage unprecedented risks in managing infrastructure assets and to the communities they serve. 
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The Importance of Risk Management
RISK MANAGEMENT is becoming a critical part of not just investment planning but the entire life cycle management of assets. Importantly, the Auditor General’s office in NZ has reported that risk management is one of the least mature elements of governance in the public sector (ref Controller and Auditor-General B.29 [21i]) with the top risks identified by Councils:
  • Health and Safety
  • Climate change
  • Cybersecurity/Information systems
  • Emergency management/Business Continuity Planning
  • Asset failure
  • Staffing capability or retention
  • Financial management/sustainability
  • Natural hazards
  • Asset Management

Who We Are

LGRISK is a New Zealand-based engineering consultancy firm that provides advisory services to Local Government with a risk lens at all stages of infrastructure assets life cycle:

  • Strategic development and planning

  • Asset Management planning

  • Design and construction

  • Operations and maintenance

  • Decommissioning      

 

We specialise in working alongside Local Government teams in identifying and implementing innovative strategies, processes, methods and solutions to meet the challenges they are facing.

 

Doing what has always been done before will only achieve the outcomes we have always got - A change is needed to achieve the outcomes current and future communities demand and will need, and LGRISK will be a Facilitator of that change. 

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Our Key Differentiators

  • We have over 35 years' experience working with Local Government water, transport and building infrastructure in NZ 

  • We work as Independent Advisors alongside internal LG teams removing conflict of interest between client, consultants and contractors

  • We work as Independent Facilitators assisting Local Government organisations improve internal processes and collaboration across teams and groups

  • We collaborate and partner with subject matter technical professionals in Local Government water, transport and building assets

  • We apply an integrated risk management approach in the strategic planning, asset management, design, construction, operations and maintenance of infrastructure assets 

  • We provide continuity in building risk resources and capability within each organisation that we work for

  • We champion integrated solutions based on the principles of adaptive pathway planning to allow extending the investment planning time frame and getting more value with consideration to (some examples):​

    • Integrating multiple stakeholder constraints and investment plans across asset types and organisations

    • Win - win strategies such as re-thinking future urban planning to counter and embrace impacts of flooding and sea level rise

    • Build - less, maximising the use of existing assets 

    • Design and build only for what will NOT be impacted by future uncertainties

    • Design and build for the medium term in stages allowing change in pathways

    • Preventive maintenance - Predict failure mechanisms using multiple layers of data and consider cost benefits of preventive and or mitigative controls 

    • Optimal asset life cycle costs - ensuring sustainable operations, maintenance and decommissioning costs

 

Asset and Facility Portfolios

We have experience in the following Local Government Asset and Facility portfolios:​

  • Urban stormwater, wastewater and water supply networks and assets

  • Road corridor drainage assets; catchpits, major culverts, pipe networks, water quality devices

  • Road corridor structural assets; bridges, major culverts, sea walls, retaining walls

  • Road corridor pavement assets 

  • Public Transport facilities; wharf and ferry, bus station, car park, rail stations

  • Community facilities 

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Where we provide value to Local Government 

 

Strategic Development & Planning

 

  • Infrastructure strategy development
  • Long term investment planning
  • Adaptive pathway planning
  • Integrated catchment management planning
  • Master planning
  • Corporate risk frameworks and integration of risk management across organisations
  • Development of standards, guidelines and policies
  • Review of information and data management systems
  • Information management tools to increase organisational effectiveness and productivity
  • Sustainability strategy development and implementation
  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation 
  • Flood hazard modelling studies 
  • City-wide stormwater discharge treatment strategy

 

Asset Management

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  • Review effectiveness of asset management systems and processes
  • Development of asset condition and performance assessment frameworks and programmes
  • Development of prioritized 1,3 and 10 year forward works programmes
  • On site condition and performance assessments
  • Health and safety, operability, whole of life cost and reputational risk assessment of assets
  • Optioneering of asset renewals
  • Asset remaining life assessments
  • Asset data quality assessments
  • Asset database unit measure and rates
  • Digital twin surveys
  • Asset portfolio risk management frameworks
  • Asset portfolio risk identification and assessments
  • Development of   preventive and mitigative risk controls 
  • Asset and facility valuations for asset transfers
  • Durability planning and material/product selection
  • Forensic engineering
  • Root cause analysis
  • Flood risk assessments 
  • Preventive maintenance studies and implementation

 

Design & Construction ​

(Client-side)

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  • Review of optioneering & feasibility studies 

  • Review of cost estimation process

  • Quality control

  • End to end project risk management facilitation

  • Dispute resolution

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Operations & Maintenance​​​

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  • Operations and maintenance plans and monitoring

  • Operations and maintenance support

  • Emergency management planning

  • Emergency works implementation

  • Resilience planning

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