Ross Waugh continues with his COVID-19 video blog series. In this vlog, Ross illustrates what would happen when municipal or city councils suspend infrastructure replacement, defers renewals or other expenditure due to the economic impacts of the pandemic. Ross uses the sports analogy in this …
Asset Management Strategy Best Practice Discussions
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. A participant asked a particular …
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Asset Management Issue – Funding Depreciation or Replacement Cost
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. This post deals with two questions from …
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Asset Information Management and Data Capturing
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. Heather took a break from the questions …
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Asset Management Practice in New Zealand – A Quick Background
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. Heather Great. So, we have covered the …
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Asset Managing Peaks and Troughs in a COVID19-caused Recession (Video Blog)
Ross Waugh continues his video blog series on asset management and the impacts of COVID-19; presents tips on managing peaks and troughs. In this blog post, Ross talks about the impacts of peaks and troughs on asset management planning tasks. Watch Ross discuss two replacement plan situation …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Actions on the Effects of COVID-19 (Video Blog)
Ross Waugh talks about Warren Buffet's Value Investing Principles and how they apply to infrastructure asset management practice. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected countries all over the world, which every one of us is so aware by now. We have also read how it is affecting the economy of …
Asset Management and its Vital Role in Restoring COVID-affected Economies (Video Blog)
Ross Waugh explains the vital role of asset management in restoring economies that COVID-19 affected. Watch the video now! "Our societies are going to spend an awful lot of money on health and income support, and rebooting economies from the shutdowns and economic shock." - Ross Waugh Ross …
Getting Started with Asset Management
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. Introduction to the asset management …
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What Levels of Service Key Performance Indicators Should We Develop?
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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Asset Management – Determining the Realistic Lifespan of Infrastructure
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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Why Asset Management is About the Thinking Process and not the Software
Further on the question of using a spreadsheet or database is the use of applications or software for asset management. Many participants had asked what software Heather and Ross would recommend. In response, Ross and Heather elaborated that asset management is about the thinking process. They …
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