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Looking at the “very poor” condition bucket of the Deighton Water Model, the amount of investment (water) needed to restore it to “very good” condition is tremendous. It’s not the situation that a municipal engineer or a highway engineer would want to be working. Aside from dealing with the …
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Watch the webinar video "Ask the Expert: A Unique Opportunity to Ask Your Asset Management Questions or Seek Advice" to add to your asset management knowledge. Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger are the asset management experts answering the questions. Know the benefits of practicing asset …
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In the Netherlands, two innovators, Daan Roosegaarde, an artist famous for novelty projects, and Hans Goris, a civil engineer working at Heijmans have developed the highway that glows in the dark. The article "Motorway of the future uses glow-in-the-dark road paint" features the development of …
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Hoping for an economic resurgence, Detroit filed for bankruptcy on 18th July. The Economist published an article explaining the situations that made Detroit do such move. According to the "Detroit files for bankruptcy, Motown's blues continue" article, the city's economic life has been …
By Theuns F.P. Henning, Derek C Roux, and Gordon Hart The thrust of the New Zealand government for the road industry is how to generate considerable savings at the same time achieve satisfactory road efficiency through implementing the following directives: flat lining of maintenance …
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Will making sound road asset management decisions lead to improvement in efficiency, effectiveness and whole of life value for money in the delivery of road maintenance operations and renewals? This is the challenge that the Road Maintenance Task Force considered in the research report, "NZTA …
Video 11 - Summary In this video (11th of 11 videos), Ross sums up the subtopics he covered in the paper he presented during the 2013 Ingenium Conference. Ross recaps the topics presented in the previous ten videos and mentions the infrastructure management constraints that the local …
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Video 10 - Resolving the Budget-Level of Service-Risk Triangle Budget, level of service, and risk are three elements that should always be considered when forecasting changes in infrastructure management. In this video (the 10th of 11), Ross discusses the triangular relationship …
Video 9 - Future Implications Parks and Property In this video (the ninth of 11), Ross presents exciting infrastructure asset management scenarios for parks and property in the next 30 years. How would New Zealand respond to the infrastructure needs of its rapidly growing population of …
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Video 8 - Future Implications Utilities Do you know how old the utilities are in your city, province or country? Watch the "Future Implications Utilities" video - the 8th of 11 videos that Ross Waugh created. Section 9 of his paper, "Infrastructure Management, Forecasting the …
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Video 7 - Future Implications Transportation In this video, Ross discussed the "Future Implications - Transportation", the 7th of 11 videos on "Infrastructure Management, Forecasting the Changes to 2030" Ross mentioned funding shifts from NZTA in support of the 'One Network' approach …
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A Day with Professor Natalie Jackson - Afternoon Session, Canterbury Region from Inframanage on Vimeo. Video 3 of 3 The video above is the third and final video of Professor Natalie Jackson's lecture on New Zealand Demography. In February 2013, Waugh Infrastructure Management invited …
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