Regional Infrastructure Projects Update - September 2016

North Qld IPWEA conference Lucinda - 18-19 August 2016

We do things differently up north! In areas such as:

Management of State Govt Civil construction contracts in the Cape York area.
Disaster Management Planning – acceptable risks pre and post events
Management of our bulk water supply, in some of the wettest and driest areas in Australia.
Maintaining and prioritising our maintenance work on our sealed and unsealed Road assets.
River engineering in FNQ and the Great Barrier Reef - for example due to the amount of rain fall we receive, bank remediation post event is very different to the any other part of the country.

TMR Cape York region package - Sandra Burke

Partners with LG
Strategic plan one integrated transport network
State Government accelerated works program
Cape York package 260 mill over 5 yrs priority community infrastructure - water waste boat ramps
Focus on jobs - projects out to tender rather than Road Tek

Involving start up indigenous companies
Indigenous opportunities -Increased from 1.5% to 15%
15 indigenous business (80 people with 22 traineeships )

Received Qld reconciliation award
21 water storage 285ml
Sourcing 258,000 tonne gravel
capability development generational change

Local Buy

Capital works Contracts
BUS253 Civil Works category 1/2/3
Water and sewerage construction and maintenance
Civil works marine water sewerage Construction and Maintenance

Asset Management and Service Delivery Management Cairns Regional Council - Garry Everson -

What Cairns Maintenance do, when it’s done and how they communicate to stakeholders
Service equity - value of one service to another.
Hierarchy equity - why is one road more important than another.
What has been tried and tested before perhaps becoming overly complicated to understand.
Templates AMPS Community plans LoS LGs are finding LGs can't afford to do it all.
Rate the importance of the asset Utilising Star rating system - ie 5 or 3 star hotel, you have an idea the quality
Feeds into the service levels, inspection frequency, intervention levels, investigation and response times
Mobile CRMs when operations find issues
Simplified, reduced reactive timeframes unified asset class ease of definition
What is important why and what's not.

Townsville City Council (Townsville Water) - Esther Bank

Reservoir strategy and it’s implementation.
Uninterrupted water supply. Review of capacity of reservoirs emergency supply
Over the past twenty years Tville has done 7 studies into sufficiency of water supply.
Consumption data average demand
Implementation
Lessons learned
In discussion with operations reviewed design thinking and looked for flexibility in design.

Regional Qld councils adopt innovative road maintenance strategies - Ross Loakim (Downer Infrastructure)

Pavement recycling and preservation
Identifying the best processes to extend the life of your roads
Asset Management practices intervention levels assessed to link life cycle to whole of life cycle costs
Strategy development matching strategy with applications ie three phases early intervention, standard resurfacing program, long term rehabilitation (most expensive)
Pavement preservation micro surfacing cold treatments

Roughometers to prioritise grading programs - Dave Goodman Cassowary Coast Regional Council

Roughometer provides data for council staff to respond to councillors or community about why they aren't grading a particular road
Find that a real increase in funding by council as data has identified budget needs to be increased
Rate payers aren't interested in the international roughness index.
Changed maintenance to also include pothole patching.
Roughness risk factor is a product then you multiply by the road class from ARRB.
Consider the number of people that live on the road.
Reviewing process where road condition is satisfactory but it gets graded anyway.
Lower hierarchy roads are graded less frequently at times convince councillors and others some roads don't grade particularly if your busy.
Consider wet season cane season which also makes it difficult to predict when to grade roads.
Break council into areas - to assist with intervention levels, don't need to grade everything while you're there "to save money" reality is you’re not saving and not completing program.

Asset Data For Disaster Claims & Reliable Asset Management - Andrew Franzmann PDM Project Delivery Managers

Improving technology (IPhones) is improving data collection.
cost range and capacity of equipment.
Mobile high definition video
Unmanned aerial vehicle UAV
Mobile person with a camera
Mobile laser scanning
QRA have forced councils to capture more data and to review and review to have evidence to support your claims
Mobile LiDAR light detection allows the capture of surfaces to survey road condition for incontestable claims even photos are being contested
Multiple data sets from one cap

Transport Asset Revaluation - Natasha Murray (Cairns Regional Council)

Conducted Road Asset revaluation in house -
Maximise the value of internal expertise
No one else knows the roads better than internal staff
Elimination of double handling
Retention of knowledge
Process provided flexibility to be tailored as the project evolved ie conducted condition assessment and inventory assessment at the same time.
Costs savings
4.7 billion of Assets of which 32% of transport
Roadways make up around 70% of asset value
CRC invests 42 million into transport assets
LG REGS ensure meeting desired levels of service
Utilised external consultants for bridges, culverts - risk assessed
Endorsement of process though internal audit committee and QAO
External peer review
Risks

Resource
Sample correlation
Reliance on staff with specialised resource
Time
Methodology
Aust standard or customised to suit -risk dependant

Results of condition assessment against previous assessments increased 12-15years
Staff experience
Challengers

Resources
Data preparations - but now set up for future
Existing data accuracy
Inventory inaccuracies
Changes to construction standards over time

Changes to methodology
Additional benefits

Costs savings
Staff ownership
Commitment high degree of confidence
Improved staff knowledge of assets, process and revaluation process
Knowledge sharing
Identified opportunities for improvement
Endorsed methodology guideline
Each year will improve their knowledge of the asset base
Difference in depreciation

TRAnsport Network Strategic Investment Tool - Stephen McFallan (CSIRO)

Understanding movements, supply chains, agriculture
Costs out movements – sealed, unsealed rail, vehicle road types, road condition influencing speed driver fatigue, rules, road rankings barriers flooding bridge limits NHVR allowable truck combinations
Identifying quickest most suitable route.
Identifies quantity and what type of truck is on roads
Cost to the Industry
Identify potential improvements, impacts, disruption to a network
Regulatory changes ie changes to regulations allowing larger vehicle ie T1 to a T2
Predicts knock on effects

River engineering in FNQ and its benefits for the Great Barrier Reef - Tim Smith (Cairns Regional Council)

A contribution to water quality improvement
Needs a combination of works
LGs not getting enough credit for current work
Bank erosion - changes to river direction which cause major sediment movement
Repairing bank erosion to reduce sediment movement - engineering design.
Bank erosion shifts large quantities of soil up to 30,000 tonnes of soil into system.
Combination of ground and green engineering ie rock stabilisation and tree planting

Project Management (PM) Framework Oriel Webster

Townsville City Council Framework
Business as usual is changing and needs to be flexible
PM is a means to deliver that change
TCC PM Framework = methodology
Delivering successfully on strategic objectives
In 2010 was targeting high end cap projects (high risk) driven by audits
In 2013 steering committee formed internal survey with a review and implementation in 2015 30 % of staff with a PC responded
People want a guide with the ability to have their own touch
A need for low risk low value project templates
Achieving a consistency so when inception meetings are called people now know what to expect
Repeatable processes
Minimising risk to Council
Clarify roles and responsibilities within a project ie a benchmark, a common language. Formats close outs what to look for continual improvements

Shield Street Heart project - Stephen Bolden (Cairns Regional Council)

Shields Street to Cairns Central shopping centre
>10,000 pedestrians per day
Extensive collaborative project - fully constructed in house by Cairns Works
Focus on Indigenous public art, shared spaces attract families into the area tropical landscaping.
Established a specific indigenous arts committee
Took the opportunity to renew or replace aged underground infrastructure

Climate Change: Informing adaption to current and Future impacts - Karl Braganza Bureau of Meteorology

Responding to weather and climate risk
Response recovery very good however in comparison to other countries they can spend approx 95% of their overall spend on planning and design and 5% on recovery
Adopting new standards fire fighting checking on old people's homes data collection changes to coastal planning legislation
Sea level rises will be a series of significant events which will effect insurance asset prices mitigation change conversation to view a 30 year horizon keep the conversation going
Predict 28 cms by 2050
Will change one in a 100 events to one in one

The ups and downs of delivering capital projects on Magnetic Island - Claudia Brassard.

As part of TCC capital works
In the past five years TCC has delivered 20 million waste transfer, Board walk for pedestrians, Water Main renewal, Sewer upgrade.
Consider whole of life costs to minimise ongoing maintenance - considering the environment, tourism and additional expense involved in completing work

Cairns water Security Strategy Steven Porter

Review of existing water supply - Journey and Evolvement
Pop 164,000 and 67,000 properties
Forecast by 2036 an increase of 66,000 residents
2100 km’s of water main
Reliable supply - at times difficult to manage - expectations when community expect it to rain.
Since 2007 have instigated demand management
Review of 30 year plan identified enhancement of bulk water supply
Initially planned to build additional storage
Review of:

Risk and contingency plans and appetite for risk
Performance monitoring and review
Levels of service
Understanding parameters of events
Magnitude, frequency, duration
Acceptable risk of supply shortfall
Performance targets/legislated requirements
Impact of demand management strategy.

Following the review pushed out cap ex upgrade by ten years (200mill)
Smart water intelligent water network and what other aspects can be leveraged from that in a "smart city" sense
Reboot community education programs marketing campaign to use less water - cultural behavioural change
Requires annual review annual growth, effects of marketing and smart metering leak detection programs. Need for a contingency plan. Factors such as Aquis, construction booms