In our previous blog, "Water Shortage in Manila – How Asset Management Planning Helps," we wrote about the water crisis in the east end of Metro Manila. While we have mentioned that the shortage advisories started in early March, the water crisis have been hovering all along. Manila Water, through their Chief Operating Officer Geodino Carpio admitted that while the dry season and El Niño … [Read more...]
Asset Management Career in the Water Infrastructure Sector Pushed
In the USA, many water infrastructure upgrades are going to be needed in the next couple of decades. There is growing concern, however, that with many laborers in this field set to retire soon, there may not be enough people to do the jobs. Brookings Metropolitan Policy Programme, based in Washington D.C., have recently been thinking through this problem and have held a conference in hopes … [Read more...]
The New York Water Tunnel – Building Better Resilient Infrastructure
Last year, New York City brought a long-overdue water project to completion by the activation of a new drinking water tunnel from Brooklyn to Staten Island. The $250 million tunnel was delayed when Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012. Ironically, disasters such as Sandy are the very reason that this tunnel has been built. In a crisis, this critical backup system can deliver up to 150 million … [Read more...]
Calamitous Natural Events and the Infrastructure Resilience Questions
Harvey and Irma were the two tropical cyclones that battered the US coasts in late August 2017. Both storm systems were classified as major hurricanes. Hurricane Harvey with its 130 mph wind was classified as Category 4, while Hurricane Irma was Category 5 with her winds reaching 185 mph. As Texas was going through the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the people in the Carribean Islands and … [Read more...]
Why ISO 55000 is Important?
When I came across an article on how some organizations are pursuing ISO 55000 for the sake of getting the prestige and using it for marketing purposes, my thought was these organizations are missing a lot. I can see two significant values you are investing on with ISO 55000: You are adding value to your infrastructure assets. You are creating best asset management practice in your … [Read more...]
Asset Management Perspective on the August 2017 Unsafe Drinking Water Report USA
News21’s investigative report that around 63 million Americans are exposed to unsafe drinking water is making headlines in the USA’s major online news agencies. The report examined the Environmental Protection Agency violations on water quality and monitoring affecting places from California to New York City The USA Today reports: The findings highlight how six decades of industrial … [Read more...]
Strategic Asset Management Planning – Dynamics of Decision-Making
Talking about "Using Uncertainty Theory in Asset Management Planning" Ross explains the advantage of making lots of small decisions. In this post, Ross gives an illustration and discusses further. The other thing is thinking about a car or a boat or something like that. When you’re going in a direction and you want to change direction, it’s easy to do that when you’re moving. If … [Read more...]
Using Uncertainty Theory in Asset Management Planning
So, uncertainty theory. And I know hopefully you’ve been exposed to a little bit of that. If you haven’t, Dr. Henning will be no doubt pleased to point you in the right direction but you can use uncertainty theory and statistics as a planning tool with infrastructure. And it assists in going, so what I’ve just described very briefly there, you go, huh, I don’t know. What’s going to happen? Who … [Read more...]
Asset Management Strategy Vision – Coping, Analyzing, and Building Flexibility
In this post, Ross continues to talk about strategy vision in developing the asset management plan. Specifically, he discusses the pace of change, which is currently high. Further on, he shares his idea on analyzing the changes and building flexibility to the changes. Pace of change currently very high The other thing at the moment is, and worldwide, the pace of change is … [Read more...]
Asset Management Strategy – Integration and Vision
Asset Management Strategy - Integration Steps So the integration, as we’re saying before with the ISO 55000 diagram. So you developed your 10-30 year asset management strategy, your tactical planning is your asset management plans, your renewal plans, and detailed individual analysis if need to be. And that sits in the continuum. So, you start up here with your strategy, you come … [Read more...]
Expect Scrutiny and Challenge To Your Asset Management Strategies
So the other thing is, at a strategic level and particularly if you’re doing a whole of the region, a whole of the city, a whole of country stuff is that you’ll get scrutinized and challenged. It’s as simple as this, most countries in the world the is the developed countries spend between 2-4 percent of GDP on infrastructure and then developing countries 5-10 percent. It still depends on where … [Read more...]
California Legislation Recognizes Watersheds as Critical Infrastructure
It is no secret that the US State of California has spent the last hundred years creating a vast system and network of pipes, pump stations, and aqueducts that reach far and wide into distant regions in order to filter water from remote rivers into hard to reach dry zones in the Southern part of the state. It's an engineering marvel, but only so long as the ecosystems they are drawing from can … [Read more...]
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