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In this video, Heather proudly shares the notable successes that they have garnered in the last 15 years of implementing an asset management program with water utilities. She said that the main reason she got into asset management was to see the utilities benefitting from implementing it in their …
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In the previous video, Ross asked Heather to share the challenges that they encountered as they implement an asset management program with water utilities. In this video, Ross brought up the issue of declining population in some communities and rapid growth in other communities because of …
Considering the 20 years of helping small to medium water utilities, including 15 years of asset management application, Ross asked Heather to explain more about the asset management tools they developed and used. Heather begins by presenting that the number one challenge they face in the United …
In this video, Ross asked Heather about the source of funding for the asset management program that the Southwest EFC is implementing with small and medium water utilities. Heather shared how their asset management developed from the funding stream that they have received. She said that …
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This is the second of a 10-video series on the Southwest EFC Asset Management story. It features an interview with Heather Himmelberger, Director of the SWEFC, by Ross Waugh, Inframanage.com. In this video, Heather talks about how their organization started its asset management journey about 15 …
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In this interview series, Heather Himmelberger, Director of the Southwest EFC shares the history, challenges, achievements, and lessons learned in the organization's 15 years (as of interview time) of asset management program implementation. In this video, Ross Waugh explains that he is …
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On 21st January 2020, Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger conducted a webinar on getting started in infrastructure asset management. This is the 8th "Ask-the-Expert" webinar that they have conducted. Below are the asset management subjects that Ross and Heather discussed in the …
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"Demand Management" is the second part of Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland in May 2019. Ross begins his lecture with the thought that he will be sharing information that one can use whether or not they would pursue doing asset management plan. He reviewed some slides he …
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Ross Waugh conducted a lecture on Asset Management Planning and Demand Management at the University of Auckland in May 2019. We divided Ross' lecture into two parts because the video is more than two hours. "Asset Management Planning" is the first part of Ross' lecture. It covers the …
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In the mid-90s the Philippine Government recognized that they had a national water crisis on their hands. Only 26% of the residents of Metro Manila had 24-hour access to drinkable water and the poor of the city didn't have access to clean drinking water at all. In 1997 this changed dramatically …
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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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Those of you who have been regular visitors to the Inframanage Blog will have noted that it has been a long time since the last blog post - back in late 2017. A combination of high consulting workload, study, and family responsibilities has created this gap, and in effect created a lack of …
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