Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Standards Fellowship
(APAC-ISF) 2025

Quality and robust infrastructure is critical to sustainable economic growth, social development, and responding to the multifaceted resilience threats in the Asia-Pacific economies.  International standards define how products, processes and people interact with each other and their environments. They provide globally recognised requirements, specifications, guidelines or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose and are interoperable across markets.  

There is a lack of awareness and proper utilisation of voluntary standards in infrastructure development projects in the Asia-Pacific region. This causes infrastructure development project inefficiencies and risk that can ultimately undermine attracting essential capital in the region.

The Fellowship brought together infrastructure policy personnel, decision makers and high-level government officers from the Pacific to Australia to take part in a two-week program of meetings, discussions and site visits aimed at showcasing the critical role of international standards in infrastructure development.