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2015 has arrived, and here at Inframanage.com we have had our first planning meeting for the year. We started our planning with a review of progress and achievements in 2014. In summary of this review - we are pleased with the progress the site has made, and we have met our major targets …
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In October 2014 the NAMS Forum 'Advanced Asset Management, A Journey to Excellence' was held in Auckland, New Zealand. The Forum organizers asked Ross to develop a presentation that provoked thought and discussion for the Forum attendees, and the technical streams that …
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It is Christmas Eve and the middle of summer here in New Zealand. Christmas is the time of our summer vacation. New Zealand has four days public holidays over Christmas and New Year, with many taking the 3 days between the public holidays to have a good break. It is very traditional in New …
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Water Research Foundation, USA have published in the final report Answers to Challenging Infrastructure Management Questions. My thanks to Dan Ellison at HDR for bringing this to my attention (via LinkedIn). This report has a wealth of good information around the management of pipelines …
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There is a very interesting article in The Australian newspaper regarding the work that Lockheed Martin the US Defence contractor is doing with small nuclear fusion reactors. What used to be the stuff of science fiction appears to be getting closer to reality - although the Australian newspaper …
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The City of Detroit is emerging from its Chapter 9 bankruptcy, and a recent Economist Magazine article notes the major details of the bankruptcy settlement: 7 billion debt removed, 11 billion remainsRetiree pensions and health care benefits reducedDetroit Institute of Arts savedInfrastructure and …
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I came across this article "Activists Discover Evidence of St. Petersburg's River of Poop", which relayed the recent publicity of environmental activists in St Petersburg, Russia. In summary, the activists claimed to have flushed GPS tracers down a toilet in a suburban bathroom in St Petersburg …
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The postindustrial phenomenon of shrinking cities is a topic of considerable importance to infrastructure asset managers. The prediction of future demand is a core component of infrastructure asset management, and along with understanding levels of service, this guides the development planning …
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At the recent Pacific Water Conference (Sept. 2014) in American Samoa, my colleague Richard Taylor from Thomas Civil and Environmental Consultants delivered a paper 'Intermittent Water Supplies - an International Update'. This paper drew on work from the IWA pre-conference workshop on …
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I came across this short video the other day and thought I might share it, as it illustrates some 'out of the box' thinking that can help us as we consider infrastructure asset management. Traditionally, when a problem is presented to be solved in an infrastructure field, we will engineer a …
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This conference has transpired. Please browse related articles on the website. Thank you! On 9-11 September, Grant Holland and I attended the Pacific Water Conference in American Samoa. In our infrastructure management consulting work we have been undertaking projects in the Pacific …
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Fortune Magazine has a very interesting article on "Improve Urban Infrastructure? There's an app for that." Using crowdsourced GIS and other data from fitness applications such as Strava, city governments can track usage of city cycleways, footpaths, and tracks. This data can be …
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