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+=====About this book=====
+Our physical infrastructure is vital to our society, our economy, our very well-being.\\
+Our current physical infrastructure is – ok.  Until there is a crisis such as a drought, a wildfire, a pandemic. And not counting all the structures that are crumbling and barely fit for purpose . Or the dollars that are wasted on the wrong projects. And if you ignore some very stupid outcomes (‘stupidity stories’), like airports that cost three times their construction budgets , or trains that don’t fit on their tracks.\\
+As someone in a position to make infrastructure decisions, you are vital to making it work better for everyone.
+This is a pragmatic guide for decision makers on physical infrastructure and the importance of managing it well, now and for the future.\\
+Physical infrastructure starts with what’s required for life – the systems to provide treated drinking water and dispose of sewerage and waste, power to keep us warm, the means to transport food – through to the physical assets to support complex economies, such as advanced telecommunications.\\
+Other essential elements for our societies require appropriate physical assets, too, such as schools, hospitals, parks, museums and theatres. Communities are not simply physical – but they depend on a solid foundation of physical infrastructure.\\
+The physical infrastructure assets are not an end in themselves.  Some of us manage physical infrastructure so everybody else can get on with their healthy, social and productive lives.\\