Public consultation key to infrastructure development

摘要

GROWING and ageing populations, major population shifts towards cities and urban environments and a growing awareness of our responsibility to reduce the causes of climate change all pose challenges around the world. Many people are focused on designing and building the right infrastructure to cope with and solve these issues, but before a project is inaugurated or even before construction can begin, there are a myriad elements that must come together to make the system work. Innovations such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) are simplifying the processes involved in developing and designing projects, while project managers and developers are increasingly factoring in numerous other elements into their project design.