User-pays infrastructure models
By changing the focus of designing modern communities from the infrastructure used in buildings to the services provided to residents by this infrastructure, new “user-pays” economic models for infrastructure have been developed to help improve housing affordability and reduce environmental impact.
A typical example is a centralised hot water system running on clean gas or a “green” power heat pump system which is paid for by a third party vendor rather than the developer and is therefore not included in the initial housing costs. The cost per litre of hot water delivered to each resident is lower than that which would have been incurred if individual hot water systems had been installed in each apartment and carbon emissions are lowered at the same time.
Silver Asset Services is actively working with developers and existing communities to incorporate these “user-pays” infrastructure initiatives into their community title scheme so as to reduce individual service costs and the related carbon emissions associated with their community. Further examples of the “user-pays” infrastructure model can be obtained via the following web link:
www.natcap.org/sitepages/pid62.php