About Infrastructure Magazine

Infrastructure Magazine

Overview

Infrastructure Magazine — styled simply as Infrastructure — is an Australian trade magazine for the infrastructure industry, published in print and online at infrastructuremagazine.com.au. The title describes itself, in its own words, as "an industry-leading magazine that brings together asset owners, statutory bodies, consulting engineers and first-tier contractors to explore the biggest news and issues across the infrastructure industry." Its coverage is organised around six sectors — roads, rail, ports, airports, utilities and urban infrastructure — supplemented by state-by-state news channels for New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

The magazine is now published by Prime Creative Media, the Melbourne-based business-to-business publisher, whose name appears in the copyright line of the title's website in 2026. It arrived there through Prime Creative Media's 2024 acquisition of its founding publisher, Monkey Media. The frontmatter of this listing records Melbourne as its city: the title's own company page gives its headquarters as Collingwood, in inner Melbourne, and its publisher is headquartered in the same city.

History

Infrastructure was created by Monkey Media, a Melbourne B2B publisher whose managing director, Chris Bland, served as the magazine's publisher. Print editions were established by 2017: the title's published print schedule for that year lists four issues, dated March, June, September and November, each built around feature themes such as bridges, urban transport corridors, signalling and control systems, condition monitoring, big data, tolling, road design, tunnels, smart infrastructure, cranes and heavy lifting, asset management, high-speed rail, security and sustainability, with copies distributed at industry events including the AustRoads bridges conference. The same Monkey Media stable included the sister titles Utility Magazine and Energy Magazine, which covered adjacent parts of the infrastructure economy.

An article the magazine published in 2020, "The changing face of infrastructure," gives a first-person account of the title's operations at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic: with much of its subscriber base working from home and others on the frontline of essential projects, it shifted resources towards analysis, digital newsletters, social content, videos, webinars and virtual conferences. The article names Jessica Dickers as the magazine's editor and Chris Bland as its publisher; Dickers was still leading the title several years later, bylined as its managing editor in a feature on Victoria's Recycled First policy for using recycled materials in transport projects. Imogen Hartmann, an associate editor at Monkey Media, also contributed to the title in that period.

In 2024 the ownership changed. Energy Magazine, one of the stable's own titles, reported that "Energy publisher Monkey Media has officially been acquired by Prime Creative Media, along with all of its print, digital and events" assets — a transaction that carried Infrastructure, Utility Magazine and Energy Magazine into the Prime Creative Media portfolio. Infrastructure has continued publishing under its new owner through 2025 and 2026.

Programming and Content

The magazine's journalism follows the project pipeline of Australian infrastructure: announcements, funding decisions, contract awards, construction milestones and policy. Stories on its homepage in mid-2026 included a bridge upgrade reaching a construction milestone (4 August 2026), a highway upgrade delivering safer journeys (20 July 2026), a port approved for grid-scale battery storage (15 July 2026), funding for 83 road safety projects (31 July 2026), locally built trams entering service (31 July 2026), the renaming of a section of the Pacific Highway (27 July 2026), and a fellowship project with national reach (29 July 2026). Its Projects channel records items such as track laying beginning on Inland Rail, work starting on upgrades to Western Australia's longest water pipeline, Melbourne's Town Hall Station being named among the world's most beautiful stations by the Prix Versailles, and the closure of Melbourne Airport's 56-year-old terminal departures ramp.

Its feature writing goes inside individual projects in depth: editor Jessica Dickers' "Constructing Zulu," for example, examined Melbourne Airport's $300 million Taxiway Zulu program — more than 250,000 square metres of new taxiway pavement, delivered by Fulton Hogan with design by Jacobs — and what the works meant for the airport's capacity and its possible third runway.

Beyond project news, the title publishes analysis and contributed pieces from across the industry — ministers, agency executives, engineers and technology suppliers — on themes including digital twins, recycled materials and the circular economy, electric vehicle charging, cyber security for infrastructure networks, and asset management practice. It gives sustained coverage to the trenchless technology sector, including Prime Creative Media's No-Dig Down Under conference and exhibition, held in Melbourne in 2025 in partnership with the Australasian Society for Trenchless Technology, and the announcement that the International Society for Trenchless Technology's flagship conference would be held in Auckland in October 2026. It also covered the group's Converge expo at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in September 2025.

Events are part of the brand beyond news coverage: the magazine has run its own Critical Infrastructure Summit, held over three days in April 2022, and promotes an Asset Management for Critical Infrastructure event bringing together the utility and infrastructure industries to discuss the management of assets from water pipelines to electricity networks and railway lines.

Audience and Reach

The stated readership is the senior end of the infrastructure supply chain: asset owners in government and industry, statutory bodies, consulting engineers and first-tier contractors, together with the suppliers and service firms that sell to them. Sector newsletters let readers follow individual channels — rail, road, airport, port or utility — rather than the whole field. No audited circulation figure is published for the title in the sources consulted, and none is claimed here; its company page on LinkedIn had 7,102 followers when checked in October 2026, a dated directory figure that indicates the scale of its professional social audience rather than its readership.

Digital Presence

The website infrastructuremagazine.com.au carries the magazine's news across its sector and state channels, together with projects coverage, events information and subscription and advertising pages; the site states that the magazine "is integrated across print and online," with individual channels and newsletters for the rail, road, airport, port and utility sectors. A "Read our magazine" route offers the print edition in digital form. Stories are actively published through 2026 — the homepage carried items dated July and August 2026 when read for this profile — and image credits on current stories name Prime Creative Media. The title also maintains its LinkedIn company page, which it uses to distribute stories and promote its events.

Ownership and Organisation

Infrastructure is published by Prime Creative Media, an Australian business-to-business media and events company based in Melbourne, which describes itself as the country's largest independently owned B2B publisher. Prime Creative Media acquired the title in 2024 as part of its purchase of Monkey Media and all of that company's print, digital and events assets. Under its founding publisher, the magazine's leadership consisted of publisher Chris Bland, Monkey Media's managing director, and editor Jessica Dickers, who was later styled managing editor; the current website does not prominently publish the name of a present-day editor, so none is asserted here. The title sits within a Prime Creative Media portfolio of infrastructure-adjacent publications that also includes its former Monkey Media stablemates, Utility Magazine and Energy Magazine, and events including No-Dig Down Under and Converge.

Contact and Availability

Infrastructure Magazine is available in print by subscription and online at infrastructuremagazine.com.au, where readers can subscribe to the magazine and its sector newsletters and find advertising and contact details through the site's About, Advertise, Subscribe and Contact pages. Its events, including the Asset Management for Critical Infrastructure event promoted through its company page, are ticketed through their own event sites. No public business email address is published on the pages read for this profile, so none is given here.