Kentucky American Water is part of a nationwide initiative to raise public awareness of the crucial existence and maintainability of water infrastructure. This initiative is called "Imagine a Day Without Water" and hopes to put things into perspective for consumers who perhaps don't think about …
More Practical Tips on Infrastructure Asset Inventory
Ross: And coming right back to that slide with the truck and the road you know, you don’t know what you’re trying to answer and where you’re trying to get to, you’ll end up collecting the wrong information in the first place. Now the other thing, I think just advice on the inventory very …
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Doing Infrastructure Asset Inventory Right the First Time
In the earlier post "Infrastructure Asset Inventory – Lessons from New Zealand Experience", Ross shared the two mistakes they have done in their asset inventory process. He recalled collecting far too much small detail. Discussing further, Grant expressed that having too many details will cause …
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Infrastructure Asset Inventory – Lessons from New Zealand Experience
Ross: And we’re just going to jump forward to “Inventory”. We really want to talk about that because if you’re starting again, and if you’re starting, then one of the things that you’re going to need to do very very early on the piece, and then continue doing well with good quality is an …
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Engineering Director in North Country, NY Promotes Asset Management
Carrie Tuttle is the director of engineering for the Development Authority of the North Country, New York. She has a joke about municipal water system maintenance: "No one cares until you turn on your faucet and there is no water." She realizes that because most water infrastructure is …
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A Glimpse of NZ’s Infrastructure Asset Management Journey
Ross: And that’s a journey we still are on in New Zealand. We recently had a change in our legislation that we now have to produce 30–year infrastructure strategies. One of the things that you’ll find as you start. Well, I remember when I started my engineering career, we had annual budgets …
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Communicating Infrastructure Asset Management to Political Decision-Makers
Ross and Grant continue to talk about the importance of communication in infrastructure asset management, particularly, dealing with political leaders. Ross: Coming back to the subject communication, I think the thing with the political decision-makers, and I have had conversations with …
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Role of Communication in Infrastructure Asset Management
Discussing life cycle asset management and providing ideas on how to deal with asset maintenance and renewals, Grant and Ross proceeded to talk about the importance of communication. Grant: It requires a bit of communication across the organization that you are working with. So that you …
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Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Nationwide Attention in the USA
Des Moines, Iowa, and many other municipalities across the US are joined in realizing that they need to fix their drinking water infrastructure and fix it soon. The problem is money. There isn't enough to fund all the necessary repairs to aging systems. As a result, many Americans can expect …
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Life Cycle Asset Management – Maintaining and Renewing Infrastructure
This post is the continuation of Ross and Grant's discussions in the previous post, "Know the Basic Infrastructure Asset Management Process." Grant continues: So that’s why you might have two processes running at the same time there Ross. Where you've really got the existing assets that …
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Know the Basic Infrastructure Asset Management Process
Ross: It is interesting just stepping out of the African context back into the US one. Back in late April 2014, I was at the TRB asset management conference in Miami and there were a lot of transport, transit system executives and asset managers at that conference because of the federal …
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How Infrastructure Asset Management Can Help Tackle Sewage Problems in the USA
Municipal water treatment plants deal with the raw sewage of roughly 80 percent of America's households. Almost all of these facilities treat the waste and release the treated waste into a nearby body of water. However, often, if the plant is handling more than its capacity, untreated waste is …