10 Stories to Celebrate 10 Years
On Wednesday 29 February 2012, then federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese stood before a packed crowd at Parliament House in Canberra to unveil Australia’s first national rating scheme for sustainable infrastructure.
Wishing the Infrastructure Sustainability Rating Scheme, or IS for short, a “busy life”, Mr Albanese noted that project teams working on everything from roads to railways, drains to dams, sewers to cycleways now had the tools to do better.
In the decade since, IS has influenced the outcomes on $219.8 billion in infrastructure projects. Behind each of these infrastructure assets is a group of passionate people working collectively with one aim: to build better infrastructure and better cities. To celebrate the IS Rating Scheme’s tenth anniversary, here are ten of their stories.