Heather Himmelberger, contributor to the Inframanage site, was appointed to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Financial Advisory Board. This board advises EPA and the EPA Administrator on issues related to financing environmental infrastructure and regulation, …
Understanding Optimized Decision-Making Using the Deighton Water Model
Deighton is the company that develops and implements infrastructure asset management software, particularly optimized decision-making principles. Deighton has partnered with IDS over the last 16 years in New Zealand to deliver an optimized decision tool for New Zealand public infrastructure …
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Advantage of Optimized Decision-Making as Deighton Water Model Shows
Looking at the “very poor” condition bucket of the Deighton Water Model, the amount of investment (water) needed to restore it to “very good” condition is tremendous. It’s not the situation that a municipal engineer or a highway engineer would want to be working. Aside from dealing with the …
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Heather Himmelberger, Infrastructure Asset Management Blog Contributor
Inframanage.com are very happy to introduce Heather Himmelberger, who has joined as Contributor. Heather is well known throughout the USA in her role as Director, Southwest Environmental Finance Center where she had been working with utilities, providing asset management training across the …
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Transportation Asset Management Conference by TRB, Engaging Day One
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 10th National Conference started in Miami today, 28 April 2014. With 450 registrations from all 50 US states and Washington DC, the National Conference has a real buzz. The Transportation Asset Management Conference has five technical streams, all with …
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Asset Management User Group New Mexico Does Good Support Mechanism
I (Ross) was able to attend the New Mexico Asset Management User Group on Wednesday, April 23rd in Albuquerque, New Mexico Water and Wastewater Utility Asset Managers from across New Mexico attended the meeting, which led to a good discussion on asset management topics. The Southwest …
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Optimized Decision Making, IDS and the Deighton Water Model (Video)
Infrastructure Decision Support (IDS) is part of IPWEA NZ and provides infrastructure management industry support to New Zealand public asset owners - local councils and road controlling authorities. IDS is the sole distributor of the Deighton dTIMS software in New Zealand. The New …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Time Frames – Where did time go?
It is April 2014 already, and the last blog post was in November 2013. Time had gone quickly, where did it go — in this case four months have gone by. In my case, I know where my time went. In December, I was finishing projects for clients before Christmas. January is summer holidays here …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Means Different Sustainable Solutions
I came across this clip on Youtube and it got me thinking... One of the objectives of infrastructure asset management is the sustainable deployment of infrastructure to provide services to our communities. One of the challenges is to provide 'non-asset' or different asset solutions to the …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Thoughts – Mower Gang Helps Clean Up Detroit
You might have read the post on Detroit bankruptcy and some of the possible implications for infrastructure asset management in my previous blog post. In the Ingenium 2013 Conference Paper Series on the future of infrastructure management, I noted that in a constrained fiscal environment, …
Detroit City Goes Bankrupt – What Infrastructure Asset Management Lessons We Can Learn
Hoping for an economic resurgence, Detroit filed for bankruptcy on 18th July. The Economist published an article explaining the situations that made Detroit do such move. According to the "Detroit files for bankruptcy, Motown's blues continue" article, the city's economic life has been …
Infrastructure Management – Was the Philippines’ 5% of GDP for Infra in 2014 Enough?
A news article in The Philippine Star 23 July 2013 edition noted that the Philippines Government plans to increase infrastructure expenditure to 5% of GDP before President Aquino steps down in 2016, lifting expenditure off a relatively low percentage of GDP base. As featured in our blog …