2. Our perspective comes
from our work.
LGIS is helping local governments with innovation through:
• Partnerships – Telstra, Wagners etc.
• RPA (UAV/Drone) Gateway Service that drives the market,
reduces risks, sets standards and increases low cost high quality
outcomes.
• Advisory Services – with a team built for 21st Century – ICT
strategists, lawyers, planners, financial modellers, project and
construction managers with BIM experience.
• Developing end to end product solutions and financial approaches
that help clients get into innovation – Smart Water Meters.
• Solutions to address market failure – Geothermal energy
3. Don’t be silly. With big
infrastructure it’s about
transition not disruption.
6. Imagine in a few short decades
that the idea of our CBD will
change.
The need for a central hub of
commerce with a range of
professionals coming into and
out of a city everyday will
change.
The digital economy will drive
new jobs but not all of them will
need to commute to the CBD.
So… what will happen to the
CBD?
Hinweis der Redaktion
There is often talk about digital disruption and how this will play out in the infrastructure industry. The truth is that infrastructure investments are 20, 30 even 50+ year assets. Whether they be a Water Treatment Plant, a port, rail, a bridge, a building.
So disruption is happening and certain levels and these changing how we live however this is coming up against the hard reality of the assets we have now, and how we fund, manage design and procurement of future assets. Of Infrastructure Australia’s Priority List of projects how many of them are on Smart Cities innovation? Forward investment in EV charging stations? Or turning our streetlights into the Smart Infrastructure hub? How many? None. Billions worth of capital investment and none of it going towards these investments.
So it’s about transition of minds and then capital. And when this happens that’s when you know things are really happening.
Some local governments don’t think they have the type of business that can be disrupted. However, the truth is here and now and is emerging. Companies want access to low-risk and stable returned businesses and government business, linked to the community and operating capital intensive businesses in an low-interest environment makes council business ideal.
Barangaroo development in Sydney is an example of how they’re doing it.
- Generating and exporting more water than it uses
- Delivering zero waste to landfill
Achieving carbon neutrality by generating renewable energy
Customers get one bill and receive cold, hot and normal potable water, electricity and gas, and waste services etc.
The disruption is on the investment. When councils invest in assets they are 30 years assets so build for tomorrow, with an assumption for the growth in population.
We are on the cusp of a data tsunami. LGIS gets that and we’re working with LGAQ and a number of organisations to see how we can deal with that. But the real underpinning theme is the demand on energy. Whilst the efficiency may be driven through innovations it is likely that energy will be demanded in higher volumes in places we haven’t previously had. Imagine when EV vehicles are in place the vast amount of energy required at curbside. Conveniently we have poles and wires above but the new added demand at the curbside will be interesting. There’s a story out of Germany around some smart charging station pilots which were set up and quickly stopped as they melted the energy
In the Smart Cities where data will be rich, ideas about community and services will change dramatically, planers must be better than ever because planners will answer these questions and more and be a guiding light towards a coherent future instead of a mash of legislative, community and commercial inconsistency.