News21’s investigative report that around 63 million Americans are exposed to unsafe drinking water is making headlines in the USA’s major online news agencies. The report examined the Environmental Protection Agency violations on water quality and monitoring affecting places from California to …
Water Utility Planning – Is Deep Uncertainty Analysis A Better Option?
A new scientific society, the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, is arguing that water managers need to use a different system of analysis for planning ahead. The Society thinks that uncertainty in this time of rapid environmental and social change implies that managers need to …
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Strategic Asset Management Planning – Dynamics of Decision-Making
Talking about "Using Uncertainty Theory in Asset Management Planning" Ross explains the advantage of making lots of small decisions. In this post, Ross gives an illustration and discusses further. The other thing is thinking about a car or a boat or something like that. When you’re going in …
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Using Uncertainty Theory in Asset Management Planning
So, uncertainty theory. And I know hopefully you’ve been exposed to a little bit of that. If you haven’t, Dr. Henning will be no doubt pleased to point you in the right direction but you can use uncertainty theory and statistics as a planning tool with infrastructure. And it assists in going, so …
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Asset Management Strategy Vision – Coping, Analyzing, and Building Flexibility
In this post, Ross continues to talk about strategy vision in developing the asset management plan. Specifically, he discusses the pace of change, which is currently high. Further on, he shares his idea of analyzing the changes and building flexibility to the changes. The pace of change …
Asset Management Strategy – Integration and Vision
Asset Management Strategy - Integration Steps So the integration, as we’re saying before with the ISO 55000 diagram. So you developed your 10-30 year asset management strategy, your tactical planning is your asset management plans, your renewal plans, and detailed individual analysis if need …
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Expect Scrutiny and Challenge To Your Asset Management Strategies
So the other thing is, at a strategic level and particularly if you’re doing a whole of the region, a whole of the city, a whole of country stuff is that you’ll get scrutinized and challenged. It’s as simple as this, most countries in the world the is the developed countries spend between 2-4 …
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California Legislation Recognizes Watersheds as Critical Infrastructure
It is no secret that the US State of California has spent the last hundred years creating a vast system and network of pipes, pump stations, and aqueducts that reach far and wide into distant regions in order to filter water from remote rivers into hard to reach dry zones in the Southern part of the …
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Knowing Further About Key Issues in Asset Management Planning
So the key issues, and this is problem domain definition. This is Dr. Henning-speak here. So there’s a problem and a domain for that problem. What are we trying to sort out? And so the key issue is what are we solving? Are we solving a growth issue? Are we solving an economic decline and …
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Elements of Strategy in Asset Management
And a strategy at the end of the day is quite big-picture conversations. If you find yourself writing a strategy, getting into detail, back out of it because the detail isn’t required in a strategy. But, you must have a detailed analysis to support strategies. Big picture conversations So …
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What Is Strategic Asset Management Planning?
So what does strategic infrastructure asset management planning do? It looks at a high level, at a long way up, 10 to 30-year plus analysis period. And it takes a look at the big picture and the big trends. So you are not looking at micro or projects or even a 10-year look at an asset plan or …
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Why Infrastructure Asset Management is a Flourishing Career
This post is based on the second session of Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland titled, "Strategic Asset Management Planning." Inframanage.com transcribed his lecture and developed it into a series of blog posts. So the first thing is, I thought we’d start with this in terms …
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