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Navigating a bustling city and walking through narrow, poorly lit streets to reach a public transportation station can pose serious safety concerns, especially for women. In major cities, public transportation is an essential part of daily life, providing an affordable and efficient way to …
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The "Resolving Asset Management Issues" eBook is now available. Download your free copy now! Learn what the asset management experts, Heather Himmelberger and Ross Waugh discussed in this eBook. The topics discussed are as follows: Asset Management Planning and the Importance of Valid …
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On 21 January 2020, Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held another Ask-the-Experts webinar titled, “Infrastructure Asset Management – How to Start.” Inframanage.com presents the webinar topics through a series of blog posts. Continuing their discussion on starting …
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Heather: And one last topic area I want to cover in the last few minutes that we have is we have several questions about asset management plans, what those are like, and implementing your asset management program. So, I did want to touch on the asset management report and to be really, really …
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Heather: Speaking of resources, let me show a couple of resources because somebody did ask, a couple of people asked about, what’s out there that you can look at to see what your utilities are doing. American Water Works Association (AWWA) The American Water Works Association (AWWA) has a …
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Our resource persons continue to tackle questions on using the software in infrastructure asset management practice. Ross: And software does not equal asset management. It’s a tool. And look, if I think about the biggest thing that drives asset management engineers in New Zealand mad, it …
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Asset management software questions were so many that Heather and Ross decided to deal with them before the end of the webinar. Heather: Let’s move on to software because we have quite a few people who did ask questions about, nearly along the lines of, what software should I use? Is there …
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Ross and Heather continued discussing risks. They tackled the question below: Aren't most critical assets mentioned and managed in operation and maintenance manuals and the emergency response plan? Both Heather and Ross replied in the affirmative. Heather explains further: It isn’t …
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Our asset management experts, Heather and Ross, continue to discuss questions on risk management. A participant asks are maintenance schedules required for critical assets. Heather: I think if you are talking about required, it is required by whom? If we are talking about a state agency …
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A participant asked: What are the best references available to monetized risk from a triple bottom line approach and specifically thinking about the consequences of failure? Heather: And we should remind folks what the triple bottom line is because maybe not everybody is familiar with …
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After discussing and answering questions on asset inventory, Heather and Ross talked about "Levels of Service." In this post, they talked about some useful key performance indicators (KPIs) that asset management professionals can develop. Ross: And interestingly, last year, I talked …
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Heather: We also have one particular question that relates to one piece of inventory is how do you determine the realistic lifespan of a piece of equipment? And it gets into that useful life question, so we always ask people to estimate how much longer you think a piece of equipment when your …
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