Data driven solutions to enhance infrastructure resilience.

Our goal is to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing from lessons learned to enable and improve infrastructure resilience throughout Aotearoa.

Our motu is special.  Beautifully rugged, remote, geographically diverse and with a strong cultural and national identity, it is a unique land. 
But with our incredible geography comes susceptibility to natural disasters and climate change. 
Aotearoa is taonga we need to protect. 

As a country we’ve amassed vast amounts of knowledge from our experiences in disaster recovery within the infrastructure sector.  We’ve built tools, collected data and developed processes – but once the recovery phase is over, tools are switched off and life goes on, and all knowledge gained is not necessarily shared.

To address this, the Digital Built Aotearoa Foundation was set up in 2023.  It’s a place to act as a repository of digitally collated information of the built environment.  Our aim is to be a neutral entity to host and publish national infrastructure data via the National Forward Works Viewer and the Undergound Asset Register, and to enable collaboration and knowledge sharing to improve infrastructure resilience throughout Aotearoa.    

Let’s not be gatekeepers of knowledge. 

Collating and using information on the built environment in peace time allows us easy access to when we will need it most.

www.forwardworks.org.nz
www.nzuar.nz

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