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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, …
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 …
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 …
Have a look at that chart the Economist Magazine published showing forecast increase in world population from 1950 to 2050. The figures are based on the UN World Population Prospects. It is a common understanding in the infrastructure asset management sector that new infrastructure will be …
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As a site dedicated to assisting infrastructure management professionals and practitioners, you will know that we are convinced that Infrastructure Asset Management is important. A recent World Bank Paper 'Transformation through Infrastructure' states the following in it's …
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If there is ever a question to start a discussion in infrastructure asset management circles it is how to fund roads. The Economist Magazine has an article on Taxing Motorists: Roads Less Travelled relating to Vehicle Miles Travelled Fees being trialed in the US State of Oregon. Paying for …
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