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St. Louis, Missouri is looking to the future and realizing it is well-placed to supply water to other drier states as the demand increases. If they continue to follow in that vein of thought, well-implemented infrastructure asset management will need to be put in place to ensure that the region …
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In this five-minute video, Ross explained the financial aspects to be considered in infrastructure asset management. Watch him talk about revenue, capital, internal funding, financial aspects, and expenditure plus other infrastructure asset management related topics. Through the demonstration …
While these new forces are diverse, they share an underlying need for modern, efficient, and reliable infrastructure. This statement alone could bring a page-worth of discussion, but instead of focusing on all infrastructure, I would like to highlight water infrastructure and its need for …
Ross provides a good overview of Lifecycle Asset Management, how to do it, and what it covers. He mentioned the reference manuals he used in discussing the topic and elaborated further through illustrations on the whiteboard. Ross emphasized that the video seminar series started with Levels of …
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The effects of the White House's new infrastructure investment plans are already being seen in D.C. as Vice President Biden visited a river tunnel project on Friday the 16th. This project is worth 2.6 billion dollars and is expected to take two decades to complete - a 13-mile network of tunnels …
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This asset management seminar has ended and we would like to encourage our readers to read related blog posts below. Thank you. The Geospatial Transportation Mapping Association, USA is running an infrastructure asset management related webinar on January 29 on the subject of Finding Roadside …
KPMG Global Infrastructure published an annual 'Foresight' trends report on the world infrastructure markets. At 11 pages of large type and images, it is a quick but interesting read. The 10 trends that KPMG identify for 2015 are: Governments take action to unclog the infrastructure project …
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In 2012, the ACUA’s (Atlantic County Utilities Authority) Wastewater Treatment Plant came within six inches of flooding because of Hurricane Sandy. Had the storm surged further, the infrastructure might have been compromised. That experience led ACUA to prepare and fortify the resilience of …
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Ross is happy to share the "Lifecycle Asset Management" summary, the 10th of 16 videos that he is producing for the video seminar "Introduction to Practical Asset Management" Watch him explain why "Lifecycle Asset Management" is the "absolute heart of infrastructure asset management." Also, if …
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched the Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center to help communities across the country improve their wastewater, drinking water and stormwater systems, particularly through innovative financing and by building resilience to climate …
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The White House estimates that $600 billion will be needed to address US water and wastewater infrastructure improvements in the next two decades. According to an article in The Hill, Vice President Biden is set to announce a trio of new Federal initiatives designed to spur new infrastructure …
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Water Crisis is the Top Global Risk says the Word Economic Forum in its updated 2015 Global Risk Assessment. The assessment has also changed the grouping of Water Crisis from an environmental risk to social risk, providing much wider implications to the risk. Brett Walton of Circle of …
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