Category 5

Best Practices Award in Urban Infrastructure Planning and Management

This category caters for finding adaptable, local and resilient solutions, that will enable longer lifecycle of infrastructure, due to the fast-paced transformations in line with the 4^th industrial revolution relying on innovative, futuristic and sustainable projects improving living conditions.

Topics Covered

1. Innovative and sustainable infrastructure
2. Sustainable, cost-effective and resource-sensitive infrastructure
3. Sustainable industrialization and employment
4. Multi-stakeholder collaboration
5. Sustainable lifestyle
6. Integrated Housing Infrastructure Systems
7. Leapfrog models ethics
8. Cooperations and citizens engagement
9. Relations with urban planning and food security needs
10. Social mixing techniques and models
11. Developing local retrofit solutions

Potential applicants are expected to address, among others:

Retrofitting infrastructure

• New infrastructure replacement solutions
• More sustainable, cost-effective and resource-sensitive
• Encourage research and technology capabilities

Deconstructing silos

• Encourage mission-driven governance models
• Enable cross-sectorial solutions
• Foster multi-stakeholder collaboration
• Increase the overall sustainability and resiliency of the desiloed infrastructures

Cutting-Edge technologies

• New leapfrog solutions
• Pre-evaluation of leapfrog models
• Increase the sustainability and resiliency of the infrastructure
• Democratize access in least developed nation

Rethinking the enablers of infrastructure construction

• Enable new financing models
• Increasing citizen engagement
• Social diversity and peaceful social mixing
• Adoption for more sustainable and resilient approaches