The Strategic 100 - The Top 100 Global Infrastructure Projects for
2013 Announced
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2012
/PRNewswire/ -- CG/LA Infrastructure Inc., the leader in
global infrastructure project promotion, announced today the
release of The Strategic 100 - the Top 100 Global Infrastructure
Projects for 2013. The total estimated value of the projects is
US$648 billion, nearly 20% higher
than in 2012. "Countries around the world increasingly see
robust infrastructure investment - in the right projects - as
critical to growth, and sustained competitiveness," according
to Norman F. Anderson, President
& CEO of CG/LA.
Infrastructure Sectors - Making Cities Work. With a
return to growth, cities around the world are looking at how to
address their congestion problems, and how to optimize
opportunities for their residents. Of the 11 macro sectors
defined by The Strategic 100 nearly $250
billion is focused directly on making cities work better.
Overall values are the following: Strategic ($113.9 Billion); Urban Mass Transit ($83.6 Billion); Freight & Passenger Rail
($72.7 Billion); Renewables
Generation ($70.5 Billion);
Traditional Electricity Generation & Transmission ($60.1 Billion); Highways, Bridges and Tunnels
($58.2 Billion); Ports &
Logistics ($49.6 Billion); Natural
Gas Pipelines ($47.3 Billion); High
Speed Rail ($42.2 Billion); Airports
($28.6 Billion est.); Water &
Wastewater ($21.5 Billion).
Country Clusters - Making Countries Competitive.
Another critical trend is that a series of countries are using
infrastructure investment as a way to rev up their economic engines
and to blow past their global competitors - out-performing in the
global competitiveness and per capita income race.
Brazil is set to be one of the
most aggressive infrastructure investors in 2013, followed in order
by India, Canada, China, the US, Saudi
Arabia, Russia,
Turkey, Colombia, and tied for 10th the UAE and
Australia. "These are countries seizing the advantage as we
move into 2013, not only putting strategic projects in the field,
but also using infrastructure investment as a way of
sustaining economic performance," according to
Anderson.
The Strategic 100. Projects were selected based on a
three month process assessing more than 400 global projects, in 66
countries, around five specific criteria assessing a
project's: (1) contribution to local and regional economic
productivity; (2) contribution to global
competitiveness; (3) probability of generating a business
'event' in 2013; (4) job creation potential, over the lifetime of
the project; and (5) carbon efficiency/sustainability.
The 6th Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum
The
Strategic 100 list is released annually in the lead-up to the
Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum, to be held this year in
New York City, February 27-March 1, 2013. The theme of this
year's Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum is "Building
Strategic Infrastructure - Growth through Public Sector Capacity,
and Private Sector Opportunity". CG/LA Infrastructure
(www.cg-la.com) created the Leadership Forum as a way of
recognizing the strategic importance of infrastructure for
individuals, businesses and communities around the world.
To download The Strategic 100 Project list and find out more
about the 6th Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership
Forum, visit: http://cg-la.com/gilf6
To arrange an interview about the Strategic 100 List, contact:
Craig Guzinsky, craig@cg-la.com.
Contact: Alexandra
Stuart
Director of Communications
Tel. +1 (202) 587.5926
Email: alexandra@cg-la.com
SOURCE CG/LA Infrastructure LLC