Developing criteria to help solve Australia's urban infrastructure crisis

我们城市的关键基础设施项目被认为处于危机之中。然而，尽管越来越愿意为新的基础设施提供资金，但各级政府在设计、排列和交付基础设施项目方面存在困难。该项目将恢复和重建一种语言，以了解基础设施在澳大利亚城市中的作用，然后制定更好地颁布基础设施采购和供应程序的标准。该项目的主要成果将与对建设和运营大型经济基础设施的更好方式的日益增长的需求交织在一起，从而有助于建设经济表现更好、更宜居的城市，并为长期环境可持续发展目标做出贡献。

The key items of infrastructure in our cities are seen to be in crisis. Yet despite a growing willingness to fund new infrastructure, governments at all levels struggle to devise, rank and deliver infrastructure projects. The project will recover and rebuild a language for understanding the role of infrastructure in Australian cities and then devise criteria for better enactment of the infrastructure procurement and provisioning processes. The project's prime outcomes will intersect with a growing need for better ways to build and operate large economic infrastructure and thus contribute to building cities that perform better economically, are more liveable, and contribute to long term environmental sustainability goals.