A participant asked if the Havelock's contamination of the water system was preceded by an unusual rain event. Ross: A few things preceded it, but yes there was a significant rain event a couple of weeks or so beforehand. Twenty years ago, they’d had a similar sort of rain circumstances, and …
Further Lessons on Asset Management and Managing Assets
Ross and Heather shared further lessons as they continue discussing on Asset Management versus Managing Assets. Ross: And I think a classic example of that, a few years ago, one of the larger urban municipalities in New Zealand got me to look at. They were rewriting a service delivery …
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Understanding the Value of Asset Management and Managing Assets
In the previous post, Heather started talking about the distinction between "Asset Management" and "Managing Assets." She then asked Ross for his thoughts from the perspective of New Zealand. Ross: Yes, and again, just for our attendees as well, if you put “Havelock North water incident …
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Asset Management versus Managing Assets – Knowing the Distinctions
At this stage, Heather moved on to a different topic, which is on asset management versus managing assets. Heather says: So what I wanted to talk a little bit about is the theme that’s coming up in a couple of different areas. I’m starting to hear it about companies, private companies in …
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Thinking of a Covid-19 Lockdown Carpe Diem Strategy for Airports
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages worldwide, in at least 180 countries and territories as of writing, we see the temporary stoppage of both local and international flights. Some countries have facilitated mercy flights for their stranded nationals. They limited trips to the conveyance of essential …
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Covid-19 Lockdown Carpe Diem Strategy – Libraries
In this period of lockdown, our local libraries are one of the many places that people will be missing. Apart from the customary range of books and reading materials, our libraries offer many other things like study nooks, computer and internet service, photocopying, and audio-visual or meeting …
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Covid-19 Lockdown Carpe Diem Strategy – Road Networks
In this period of lockdowns local or national, we have created a series of blogs on "Covid-19 Lockdown Carpe Diem Strategy" as you stay at home and think about the infrastructure systems that you are managing. Road networks are major infrastructure that people use every day and thus need …
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Covid-19 Lockdown Carpe Diem Strategy – Pools and Aquatic Centers
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a disruption of services as governments impose lockdowns in a strong bid to contain the spread of the deadly virus. In this post, Ross talks about the use of carpe diem strategy on public pools and aquatic centers. This is a repost of the blog series "Covid-19 …
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Applying the Carpe Diem Strategy in this Coronavirus Pandemic Time
We are sharing the "Covid-19 Carpe Diem Strategy" series of articles that Waugh Infrastructure Management has started publishing. Read the excerpts from the overview that Ross Waugh, Director and Founder of Waugh Infrastructure Management wrote. The present and coming shutdowns associated with …
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Stopping Covid-19 Spread – “Hammer and the Dance” Strategy
Your country is probably dealing with Covid-19 now as you read this blog post, Whether your country is preventing coronavirus from reaching your locale or suppressing its spread, we are recommending the "Coronavirus: Hammer and the Dance" article for you to read. Written by Tomas Pueyo (and …
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WASH and Waste Management for COVID-19 by World Health Organization
The world map above shows how widespread the Covid-19 have become as indicated by the orange dots, the bigger the higher the number of confirmed cases. As of writing, the Bing.com Covid-19 tracker showed 243,665 cases all over the world, with 146,393 active cases. It also showed that 87,265 …
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Infrastructure Asset Management – How to Start (Webinar)
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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