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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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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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Recently the Sustainable Prosperity, an environmental think tank based at the University of Ottowa, conducted a study, aptly labeled "New Solutions for Sustainable Stormwater Management in Canada." The study reviews the current state of stormwater management in Canada and the two most regularly …
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The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure recently awarded Kansas City Water's Middle Blue River Green Infrastructure projects its Envision Platinum award. These projects were specifically engineered to cut combined sewer overflows and improve water quality in the project region - which …
This eBook is based on Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland. Download this eBook on Asset Management Plans and read what Ross had discussed on the following topics: Introducing Ross WaughAsset Management Plans – Background and ResourcesAsset Management Plan International …
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Wastewater and Stormwater infrastructure in the 2017 ASCE report Card received a D+. This is up from the 2013 report card grade of D. This is in part due to the fact there has been some innovation with the treatment plants to ensure protection against flooding and cross-contamination and new more …
So in conclusion, in New Zealand, we’ve had 20 years of asset plans and 7 cycles of development. We’ve got guidance available through plans and resources and templates for the specific industries as well as across multiple industries. Levels of service, future demand, risk are the key inputs …
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This is a different example. So this was Walkerton, Canada in 2000. So what happened here, they’ve got some bores, they have cows around and they’ve got E. coli, a particular type of E. coli that are carried in cow manure into the bores. Because they had set up a contract with, they have a …
So, the other thing is, this is the Minnesota River Bridge, in the US. I don’t know if you remember. In 2007 it collapsed; killed 13 people, 145 injured. This is the Mississippi River and it made worldwide news at the time. The bridge dropped into the Mississippi River while they were …
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Now the interesting thing about that threshold of safety and trust is you can spend heaps of dollars and get your levels of service up to and get your risks back down but you never get your trust back. So as infrastructure asset management practitioners, if you build something that fails or you …
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Alright. Levels of service. So levels of service, cost, and risk. And again this came out of the Road Maintenance Task Force work and one of the things we see are these three axes. So levels of service, you can say, hey I’ve got these levels of service and it going to cost me here at this much. …
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Tony Seba has published an updated lecture: The Electric Vehicle Disruption - End of Oil 2030 Having attended a lecture by Tony Seba two years ago, I have found his analysis coherent, well-researched, and well worth taking note of. If you are involved in transportation infrastructure …
