CIBW122: Accelerating Smart City & Sustainable Environment Development through PPP

CIB W122 Webinar: Accelerating Smart City and Sustainable Environment Development through Public Private Partnership (PPP).
Recorded Wednesday 11th October 2023 (12:00 to 14:00 BST UK time)
Speakers:
Professor Albert Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Baabak Ashuri, Georgia Institute of TechnologyProfessor Ashwin Mahalingam, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Dr Leonardo Grillo, Gestores Prisionais Associados
Public private partnership (PPP) remains a valuable option to deliver public sector infrastructure, facilities and services in certain scenarios. The increasingly urgent needs for smart cities and sustainable development means that these cannot be delivered through the public sector purse alone. The private sector through its financial and management acumen can make major contributions, that sometimes even make the difference between successful and unsuccessful projects. For example, the private sector can work with the public sector, to provide more favourably long term-term financing options and to secure such financing in a much quicker timeframe.
The webinar explores PPP at an international level, by expanding the established global forum, to facilitate exchange and synthesis of research identifying new and emerging international protocols and practices in PPP in facilities and infrastructure development.