Water Infrastructure Cost Estimation Principles and Cost Benchmarking

The aim of this project is to improve our understanding of water infrastructure costs and ultimately create a framework or methodology for robust assessment and benchmarking of scheme costs. This should be applicable to infrastructure types currently being assessed through the gated process including: desalination plants, wastewater reuse plants, raw water reservoirs, raw/treated water transfers plus associated assets such as water treatment works, pumping stations and treated water service reservoirs. We expect this project to cover the following key areas: approaches and best practices for infrastructure cost estimation, historical cost data for relevant water resource assets and princip…