2032 is a great headline, but councils are dealing with maintenance problems right now.
Queensland’s $119B infrastructure pipeline puts a lot of focus on what needs to be built over the next five or six years. But if you speak to a local asset manager, council engineer or site supervisor, the bigger issue today is often maintaining what is already there.
Public spaces, sporting courts, pathways and road surfaces are constantly being repaired or recoated because many surface products simply don’t last in Australian conditions.
I saw a comment recently about surface products failing in our climate. I’d hope that wasn’t aimed at our work. We’ve been specifying and applying these systems for more than 30 years, and we’ve spent that time working with the products in real conditions, not just talking about them.
There’s plenty of excitement around the major projects planned for 2032, and rightly so. But the same GAF-backed StreetBond technology being considered for major infrastructure is already available for councils, schools, roads, parks and public spaces today.
You don’t need a major project to justify using a better surface system.
StreetBond is already on the ground, TIPES Level 3 certified, and being used to solve the maintenance problems councils and contractors are dealing with now.
