Report Cards on the Status of Infrastructure – International

24 November 2008 Geoff Zeiss

There has been widespread awareness in the US about what is popularly
referred to as crumbling infrastructure. In the presidential election campaign the issue came up repeatedly.  One of the reasons, perhaps the most important reason, for the high public awareness about the state of US infrastructure is the Report Card on American Infrastructure produced in 2003 and 2005 by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). I’ve referred to it multiple times in this blog.

Actually there are similar report cards or efforts underway to assess the state of infrastructure in a number of countries around the World.

Canada

Literature Review of Methodology to Review the Status of Infrastructure

CUTA/ACTU Transit Infrastructure Needs for the Period 2006-2010

Municipal Water and Wastewater Infrastructure: Estimated Investment Needs 1997 to 2012

Life-Cycle State of the Infrastructure Report on Public Works Assets – 2006: City of HamiltonCityOfHamiltonReportCard

Edmonton City Council’s Infrastructure Strategy

Study of the Status of Full Cost Recovery and Sustainability of Ontario Municipal Water and Wastewater Systems

Japan

The 2007 Report on Japanese infrastructure by the Japanese Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)

Motivation for the JSCE Report

Australia

 2005 Australian Infrastructure Report Card

New Zealand

Infrastructure Stocktake: Infrastructure Audit

South Africa

The SAICE Infrastructure Report Card for South Africa: 2006

United Kingdom

State of the Nation Report: Transport

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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