When it comes to climate change and resilience to extreme weather events, Australians don’t need to look very far to understand our challenges – as the poem goes, we have ample droughts and flooding plains … and heatwaves and blackouts. But the challenges do not come from mother nature alone, they lie in leadership, particularly in Australia’s approach to business sustainability. Lessons should be learned from UK businesses in terms of understanding the imperatives and structuring business strategy around climate change.

Our infrastructure investment decisions matter enormously if infrastructure is to be long lived, so how can we select infrastructure investments that are optimum? How do we determine what would be the best investments to make?

Over the next five years, the Australian Volunteers program will place around 5000 Australians in a wide range of volunteer assignments across 26 nations in the Indo-Pacific. T

It’s been quite an exciting and action-packed start to 2018 for me, so much so I’d like to share this with my network.

Swinburne University of Technology has announced the re-appointment of David Singleton to the University's Council. David has served as a Swinburne Council member since 2014 and his re-appointment will ...

The theme for the 2017 Sustainable Integrated Cities International Conference – held in Perth on 4th and 5th December 2018 – was ‘Integrated Thinking for Sustainable Cities and Communities.’

I joined a strong speaker line up which included Michael Nolan, Chair UN Global Compact – Cities Programme, Brad Pettitt, Mayor at Fremantle City Council, Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University, Larry Quick, CEO of Resilient Futures, and John Thwaites, Professor & Chairman, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & Climate Works Australia.

Resilience is a hot topic when it comes to the major issues facing our communities now and into the future. I asked 11 leading industry contributors the following question: We continue to read and hear that our communities, our infrastructure, our systems must be more resilient. Do we understand what this means? Do we understand the behaviour changes that are required for us to be more resilient? And can Smart Cities assist? Read on for their thoughts ...

Leading advisor on resilient leadership, David Singleton has been appointed as a non-executive Director to the Board of AVI.  

Australian Bulk Handling Review have published a feature on Consulting Engineering. Read my piece on 'Whose interests are served by M&A in consulting'. 

Following my recent appointment as Chair of Australia’s first national Smart Cities Awards program (for Smart Cities Council Australian and New Zealand SCCANZ), I was interviewed about the role of a smart city council and awards programs and how they are / will impact the smart cities conversation. Here is the interview. 

Now, more than ever, we are more educated and aware of what climate change is and the myriad of ways it impacts us. We know it has devastating impacts globally in cities and regional areas… because our world is one huge system.  And infrastructure is no different.

David Singleton is amongst a high profile list of keynote speakers confirmed for the Sustainable Integrated Cities conference to be held in Perth on December 4th and 5th, 2017. 

I am excited to share the announcement of my appointment as Chair of Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) new Smart Cities Awards program.  

Smart cities are THE two words on the radar of every planner, policy maker, designer, urban strategist, digital specialist, builder, owner, operator and investor! I asked a handful of leading industry voices in the cities space the following question: There is a justifiable focus on Smart Cities at present. Smart cities ought to support smart citizens – how might we assist that?   Read on for their responses. 

With cities and digital transformation being such a high priority for governments, policy makers and planners across the globe, having the opportunity to discuss national priorities relating to these key areas with two key ministers is vital.

In the latest issue of ATSE Focus Magazine - 'Our changing climate' -  an article has been published regarding my appointment to the Swinburne Smart Cities Research Institute

Following a hugely well attended launch of the Swinburne Smart Cities research Institute (June 2017), this article from Swinburne University's website provides some excellent detail on what the Institute's aims are and the key research themes it is set to pursue. 

In distinguishing between “good” and “bad” debt, federal Treasurer Scott Morrison equates good debt with infrastructure investment. However, not all infrastructure investment announced in the budget is necessarily “good”.