The National Infrastructure Advisory Board is pleased to present the 2013 National State of Infrastructure Report.
Infrastructure is fundamentally important to economic prosperity and improving living standards for all New Zealanders, and it is pleasing to see that a year on since the last National State of Infrastructure Report, progress has been made across all five sectors: transport, telecommunications, energy, water, and social infrastructure. Of course, New Zealand continues to face challenges to its infrastructure; all forms of infrastructure are long-term investments, and change does not come about easily or quickly. Further developments in our infrastructure will require a wide range of cross-cutting issues to be addressed.