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In the previous post, Ross presented the case of the Havelock North water contamination incident, explaining the lessons learned. Here, Ross cites the importance of making valid assumptions in asset management based on what happened in Havelock North. Ross explains: The other thing and this …
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Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held another "Ask the Experts - Resolving Asset Management Issues" webinar on 11 October 2017. Inframanage.com presents the webinar topics through a series of blog posts. After Heather made some words of introduction to the webinar, she invited Ross to present …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Learning for you. Download this FREE eBook now! The "Strategic Asset Management Planning eBook is available now and ready for your reading and downloading. It's a compilation of the blog posts we've created from Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of …
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We are happy to share the "Ask the Expert" webinar that Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held on 30 August 2018 at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Know more about the asset management experts in this webinar by watching the video above. Planning to start an asset management program? Then watch …
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It’s a constant tension. So, there’s no right or easy answer to it. I mean you can get smarter about phasing your work, so you can go and say, hey look we could phase it, spread that out rather than trying to do it all there. We could get a bit more life for those pipes, we can phase it over a …
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A question was asked: Right so if you look at this one for Hamilton, where they’ve got, oh hey, here we’ve got $100 million there, and we’ve got 80 there. If there was a big lump in here that was $200 million for a stadium then you add them up, you’ve got - oh we don’t have that much money. …
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So just, in conclusion, 10 to 30 year plus, big pictures, key issues, integrate through that continuum to tactical and project planning. You need to develop a strategic vision, that’s the hard bit because of politicians and the public can’t do it. That’s a bit hard, but it’s around looking those …
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This is the country of Niue, a little island. It’s a self-governing, in free association with New Zealand. A lot of New Zealanders got there for holidays in tourism. They are able to come to New Zealand. When that was allowed, the population sort of went from about 10,000 to about 2,000. …
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Central Otago So this is Central Otago, much smaller authority. This is water. Theuns has done some very interesting work with them around transportation. Cumulative price, but the really interesting thing with them is the average, the hundred-year average isn’t too bad. Just over a …
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So what I’ve got now, very quickly some examples. So this is the Dunedin City Infrastructure Strategy for water, water waste or stormwater through 2060. (See image above). Thinking about infrastructure waves, so thinking just to help you, the dark blue is water treatment renewals. That’s …
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Ross talks about infrastructure waves in his previous post, "Studying Infrastructure Waves through Case Histories." Here, Ross provides a detailed explanation illustrating New Zealand's infrastructure construction waves. If we look at this New Zealand case study, so here’s 1965, we got this …
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This is one is from that same report. The blue line is transportation expenditure in New Zealand, you can see from 1965 and this 1987 recession, it was a little bit of a downward decline coming out of that. There was a dip there but it’s come up but that line across is being pretty steady, …
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