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Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held another webinar titled "Ask the Expert: A Unique Opportunity to Ask Your Asset Management Questions" on 5 November. Inframanage.com is pleased to be able to share this webinar with you. This is the second webinar for 2015. It is also the fourth in the …
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DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE EBOOK NOW! The Ask the Experts May 2015 Webinar eBook discusses new topics that are distinct from the first two Ask-the-Experts eBooks. Please read the list of the topics below for your reference. Critical Issues to Consider in Asset Management System …
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After all the questions by the participants were answered and discussed, Heather proceeded to talk about how water utilities could engage in asset management. Heather says: Well I just wanted to mention one of the things that have come up in the past and we’ve been talking a lot about this …
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Ross explains: I sure am. Because of the thing from New Zealand we have that big earthquake in Christchurch about four years ago. And the conversations changed as a result of that, from redundancy to resilience. Evaluating and managing resiliency Because you can have redundancy and still …
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Heather answers: Well, certainly redundancy has a big part of the criticality. And there’s a couple of different ways you can do it, depending on how complex or how simple you want it to be. The simplest way would be to have the probability of failure reading times the consequence of failure …
In this post, Ross answers "How can we best integrate CMOM (Capacity, Management, Operations, and Maintenance) into both asset management and fiscal sustainability plan?" He also shared briefly his thoughts on cybersecurity application in infrastructure asset management. Capacity, Management, …
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“Can you talk about asset management as a part of your operating security system? How much security is enough in today’s risk management world?” Heather answers: I am assuming they’re talking about the security in terms of security of tanks from people breaking into the fence or you know …
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Showing the diagram he created, Ross presented the key components of infrastructure asset management. Simple IAM Diagram (1) Ross explains: Levels of Service, Future Demand, Risks So when you’re linking that to again, even to the financial sustainability program, for any utility, …
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A participant asked how the state revolving fund conditions for facility sustainability plans could be developed to receive SRF funding and help drive asset management. Heather shared her thoughts. Heather says: I am certainly an advocate that I hope, the facility, the financial sustainability …
Discussing further on the issue of engaging governing bodies to support water utility infrastructure asset management programs, Heather mentioned that this is now a big issue in the water and wastewater sector. Heather says: And just one more thing I'd like to mention on the governing bodies …
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Ross talked about three tips on how asset management practitioners could persuade government bodies to support actively infrastructure asset management programs. He discussed the two tips in earlier posts, titled: Communicate with Them and Keep CommunicatingDon’t Be Bogged Down by Technical …
In the post "How To Engage Governing Bodies in Your Infrastructure Asset Management Program", Ross said that he has three tips, to begin with. Ross' first advice is to "Communicate with them and keep communicating" with governing bodies. His next tip is "Don't be bogged down by technical …
