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 …
Southwest EFC Asset Management Story 3 – Funding the AM Program
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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Southwest EFC Asset Management Story 2 – How the AM Program Started
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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Southwest EFC Asset Management Story 1 – History, Programs, Challenges
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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Preparing, Implementing, and Reviewing Asset Management Plans (Video)
Watch and listen to this lecture video on Preparing, Implementing, and Reviewing Asset Management Plans that Ross Waugh delivered at the University of Auckland. In this video, Ross talks about the following: What are Asset Management Plans (AMPs)Know the available resources on AMPsSteps in …
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Infrastructure Asset Management – Myths, Realities, and Money (Video)
Are you confident about what you believe in the status of your country's national situation, particularly on economic and infrastructure issues? Ross Waugh produced the video, "Infrastructure Asset Management - Myths, Realities, and Money" to explain the following: Societal Myths and Impact on …
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NZ’s Asset Management Success Story Revealed – The Infrastructure Decision Support Project (Video)
Inframanage.com presents the Infrastructure Decision Support (IDS) conversations, a series of videos discussing the infrastructure management services that the organization, Infrastructure Decision Support is giving. Infrastructure Decision Support is a company owned by the public works …
Available Now! Starting Infrastructure Asset Management eBook
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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Key Questions to Starting Asset Management
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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Water Utility Asset Management – Importance of Infrastructure Resilience
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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Infrastructure Asset Management – How Asset Redundancy Affects Risk Readings?
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 …
Infrastructure Asset Management – CMOM and Cyber Security
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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