This presentation was made by Keith WALLER, United Kingdom, at the 3rd OECD Forum on Governance of Infrastructure held in Paris on 26 March 2018

1. Transforming Infrastructure Performance
Quality Infrastructure in the Public Interest
Keith Waller
Infrastructure and Projects Authority
March 2018

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Content
• Defining “performance”
• Role of benchmarking
• Measuring performance

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Transforming Infrastructure Performance
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HM TreasuryNational Infrastructure
Commission (NIC)
● Assesses long-term
infrastructure needs.
● Provides independent,
impartial recommendations
to government.
● Decides which infrastructure
projects it will fund / which
policies it will take forward.
● Sets budgets.
● Supports private investment
through stable regulatory
environment.
● Provides advice and expertise
on how infrastructure
projects should be delivered.
Infrastructure and Projects
Authority (IPA)

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£600 billion investment pipeline
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In 2017, IPA set out its programme
to transform infrastructure
performance
How to improve outcomes for
users, investors, and society
Focus not just on construction,
but performance over the whole
life of infrastructure
Improving performance

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Improving productivity
Focus now progressed to productivity and performance

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IPA’s SNAP model

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Defining measures of quality investment
• Not just about defining a successful project
• Decision makers need to consider how it performs in
operation
and
• What direct benefits it delivers
• What broader outcomes are delivered through it

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Inputs, Outputs, Performance and Outcomes
Sample metrics at Project level
• Inputs:
e.g. measures of unit cost (£/m2) and
time
• Outputs:
e.g. measures of quality, budget and
schedule performance
• Performance:
e.g. measures of safety, waste, carbon
• Outcomes
e.g. measures of new jobs,
apprenticeships, SMEs
When should they be used and
by who?
Business case
Procurement
Assurance
End of project
What are the IOPO measures at
asset, network and system
levels?

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Summary
• Quality infrastructure needs to
consider whole life performance
and outcomes delivered,
• not just project level metrics
• Benchmarks will define what data
is needed by who and for what
purpose throughout the asset’s
lifecycle
• IPA intend to seek views on how
best to develop and use these
metrics