It was Christmas Eve here in New Zealand when I wrote this post. Christmas coincides with our summer vacation in the Southern Hemisphere. I would like to wish all the readers of this blog a very Happy Christmas, wherever you are in the world. Thank you for your readership, comments and …
Infrastructure Asset Management Webinar Recording Available Now
Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held another webinar titled "Ask the Expert: A Unique Opportunity to Ask Your Asset Management Questions" on 5 November. Inframanage.com is pleased to be able to share this webinar with you. This is the second webinar for 2015. It is also the fourth in the …
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Available Now! Starting Infrastructure Asset Management eBook
DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE EBOOK NOW! The Ask the Experts May 2015 Webinar eBook discusses new topics that are distinct from the first two Ask-the-Experts eBooks. Please read the list of the topics below for your reference. Critical Issues to Consider in Asset Management System …
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South Carolina Floods Devastate Water Infrastructure
On Monday the 5th of October, South Carolina was hit with a deluge that occurs on average once per millennia, receiving six months of rain in two days. Columbia, SC with its many waterways was a prime target for flooding and is one of the worst affected areas. To make things more complicated, …
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Key Questions to Starting Asset Management
After all the questions by the participants were answered and discussed, Heather proceeded to talk about how water utilities could engage in asset management. Heather says: Well I just wanted to mention one of the things that have come up in the past and we’ve been talking a lot about this …
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Water Utility Asset Management – Importance of Infrastructure Resilience
Ross explains: I sure am. Because of the thing from New Zealand we have that big earthquake in Christchurch about four years ago. And the conversations changed as a result of that, from redundancy to resilience. Evaluating and managing resiliency Because you can have redundancy and still …
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Infrastructure Asset Management – How Asset Redundancy Affects Risk Readings?
Heather answers: Well, certainly redundancy has a big part of the criticality. And there’s a couple of different ways you can do it, depending on how complex or how simple you want it to be. The simplest way would be to have the probability of failure reading times the consequence of failure …
Utah Flash Flood Claims 16 Lives and Wipes Out Infrastructure
On Monday the 14th of September 2015, Hildale, Utah was left in a state of shock and horror as a flash flood swept through and left two small communities in disbelief. The flood has claimed the lives of 16 people (mostly women and children) from these small communities and has been titled "one …
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Infrastructure Asset Management – CMOM and Cyber Security
In this post, Ross answers "How can we best integrate CMOM (Capacity, Management, Operations, and Maintenance) into both asset management and fiscal sustainability plan?" He also shared briefly his thoughts on cybersecurity application in infrastructure asset management. Capacity, Management, …
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Managing Security Risks in Asset Management
“Can you talk about asset management as a part of your operating security system? How much security is enough in today’s risk management world?” Heather answers: I am assuming they’re talking about the security in terms of security of tanks from people breaking into the fence or you know …
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Infrastructure Management Planning – Addressing Drought in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is facing one of the worst droughts in its history. On the eastern side of the island, the government has been forced to start extreme water rationing - something that hasn't happened in 20 years. Residents are caught up in a rationing cycle that leaves them without water for 24 hours …
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Understanding the Key Components of Infrastructure Asset Management
Showing the diagram he created, Ross presented the key components of infrastructure asset management. Simple IAM Diagram (1) Ross explains: Levels of Service, Future Demand, Risks So when you’re linking that to again, even to the financial sustainability program, for any utility, …
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