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I came across this short video the other day and thought I might share it, as it illustrates some 'out of the box' thinking that can help us as we consider infrastructure asset management. Traditionally, when a problem is presented to be solved in an infrastructure field, we will engineer a …
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Fortune Magazine has a very interesting article on "Improve Urban Infrastructure? There's an app for that." Using crowdsourced GIS and other data from fitness applications such as Strava, city governments can track usage of city cycleways, footpaths, and tracks. This data can be …
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Bloomberg Businessweek recently reported on Boston's Solar-Powered Park Benches. The benches are designed to allow mobile phone charging and also the bench can connect to the internet and transmit a range of environmental and other diagnostic data. This is just a small trial but highlights …
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In November 2013 this blog posted on Detroit's bankruptcy and lessons infrastructure managers could learn from this. A recent Fortune Magazine article looks at the progress that Detroit has made a year after the bankruptcy. The Fortune article is worth the read, and I would …
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Grant Holland and I have just returned from the IPWEA NZ Conference in Auckland. This Conference is always one of the highlights of our year and has strong infrastructure asset management technical papers and streams. This year's conference theme of 'Leading Tomorrow's Infrastructure' provided …
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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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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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In the Netherlands, two innovators, Daan Roosegaarde, an artist famous for novelty projects, and Hans Goris, a civil engineer working at Heijmans have developed the highway that glows in the dark. The article "Motorway of the future uses glow-in-the-dark road paint" features the development of …
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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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