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In the previous post, Ross talked about resources on asset management plans that are available. In this post, Ross gives a brief introduction to ISO management standards, particularly ISO 55000. He continues: Another one you really need to know about is this thing here, which is ISO …
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Ross Waugh delivered the lecture, "Preparing, Implementing, and Reviewing Asset Management Plans" at the University of Auckland. Inframanage.com transcribed his lecture and developed it into a series of blog posts. So I thought I would start by just talking about what are they (Asset …
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Ross Waugh delivered the lecture, "Preparing, Implementing, and Reviewing Asset Management Plans" at the University of Auckland. Inframanage.com transcribed his lecture and developed it into a series of blog posts. So I thought I would just do a little bit of introduction about me. I started …
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So if we know that for sports, and we also know from the practice of infrastructure management that consistent investment also wins, why do we think we can do this, which is shown in this graph where we’ve got optimized would be spending something every year and keep the system moving forward and be …
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We don’t want to be the guy on the right slide here, right? The thing is that engineers have too many parameters and they struggle to communicate those parameters to decision-makers. What we want to be is like Dr. Scotty from Star Trek on the left-hand side of the picture there. Where when he was …
I guess that’s about what the dTIMS modeling and this conference are all about. It’s about that optimization of expenditure but we all know that we can get away with under-investing for a while and then it shows up and then it’ll create a less than optimal expenditure profile going forward. So …
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Coming back to US infrastructure, Long Term Spend of GDP, % of GDP. This is the Congressional Budget Office figures again. Looks pretty good, doesn’t it? The percentage of infrastructure has stayed pretty steady from the 1950s through to 2011. Just slightly tailing off but when we look at the …
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Just coming back to that New Zealand diagram, we’ve looked at that right at the start of the talk during the big recession that "Last one out turn off the lights" recession back in the late 1980s, we had the situation where our consumption of fixed capital infrastructure was higher than our …
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And the US Transportation and Water Infrastructure Spend, if we go back, this is a long-run data set from the Economist again. You can see that big lot of capital invested not like 1960 through to 1970, operations and maintenance as a percentage of GDP has been pretty steady but just dropping off …
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So, moving on to the third part of this discussion today, we are going to talk about money and the impact of money and finance on infrastructure management and acquisition. One of the fundamental problems that we have in western society particularly is that infrastructure is taken for …
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In Walkerton in Canada, in 2000, there was a water supply incident and seven people died and half the town was ill. At the end of the day, there’s a big report about that by the Canadian authorities and it was criminal negligence that caused the problem. At the end of the day, people went …
This is the continuation of Ross's discussion on the earlier post, "Explaining the 'Levels of Service-Cost-Risk Diagram' through Analyzing the Flint Water Crisis." He explained further by adding the case of I35W Mississippi River Bridge collapse in August 2007. So the follow-up effects …
