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Asset management driving capital works

    2015 Study Tour Report

    by Andrew Barr

    The key aim of this report was to investigate how local government authorities in New Zealand develop and deliver capital works programs and in particular what impacts the honed asset management practices influences these capital works. The report identifies key themes that public work engineers and local government as a whole can incorporate into capital works planning and delivery.

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