Asset Management in the Face of Natural Disasters 

As our ageing infrastructure begins to fail in the face of extreme weather events, the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative hosted international asset managers from the Talking Infrastructure Association to ’talk infrastructure’ at the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Precinct on Tuesday 23 April, 2024.
Jeff Roorda, from the Talking Infrastructure Association, is also Director Infrastructure & Project Delivery Services at Blue Mountains City Council. At the time of this talk, Council was in crisis management mode for the road collapse that cut off the Megalong Valley after heavy rains.
You can hear Dr Penny Burns, the Chair of Talking Infrastructure, give an overview of the forty year history of Asset Management here: • Dr Penny Burns: The St...
Learn more about Talking Intrastructure here: talkinginfrast...
This video was produced as part of the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative's Bioregional Collaboration for Planetary Health which was supported by the Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (DRRF). The DRRF is jointly funded by the Australian and New South Wales governments.
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