Status	Research ongoing
Start date	Spring 2025
Finish date	Autumn 2026

Background

NICW are undertaking a Wales Infrastructure Assessment in order to:

• assess the current issues around the major infrastructure sectors in Wales;
• present existing data on these issues in an easily accessible and digestible way;
• engages with NICW and stakeholders operating within these sectors to gain opinion on the issues faced
• uses Futures Thinking to envisage our future infrastructure needs in Wales to scope out radical solutions;

For the purposes of this project, we define the major infrastructure sectors in Wales as:

• Energy (including distribution and transmission of electricity, gas and heat)
• Water (including flooding and fresh / waste water management)
• Transportation (including roads, public transport and active travel)
• Circular Economy / Waste Management
• Digital / Telecommunications

NICW have previously undertaken research into several of these areas and this work seeks to incorporate and build upon the findings, and not repeat or reproduce this work.

Specific outputs of this project will include:

• A dashboard of current Welsh infrastructure statistics and issues.
• A series of roundtable, sector-orientated workshops using Futures Techniques.
• Sector specific ‘state of play’ documents for each infrastructure area.
• A written report/s which contains the agreed areas of action.

The New Zealand Infrastructure Commission (Te Waihanga) published several ‘state of play’ documents in 2021 which has provided inspiration for this work contracted for this project.

At the end of this process, NICW will be organising a Wales Infrastructure Symposium to convey the findings of the report.

For further information, please contact: NationalInfrastructureCommissionforWales@gov.wales