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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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In April 2014, Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held the Ask the Expert Asset Management Webinar. Inframanage.com is organizing blog posts out of the learning Ross and Heather shared with the participants—Asset Management practitioners around the USA. In asset management, it is important for …
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In April 2014, Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held the Ask the Expert Asset Management Webinar. Inframanage.com is organizing blog posts out of the learning Ross and Heather shared with the participants—Asset Management practitioners around the USA. You might have heard many different …
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In April 2014, Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held the Ask the Expert Asset Management Webinar. Inframanage.com is organizing blog posts out of the learning Ross and Heather shared with the participants—Asset Management practitioners around the USA. New Zealand had been doing asset …
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It will not be a surprise to anyone observing international infrastructure investment trends that Colombia is currently planning massive investments in road, port and airport infrastructure, particularly roads. Colombia through the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI), and using Public-Private …
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A recent article in the Economist Magazine, "For a country where everyone drives, America has shoddy roads" examined the funding gap with America's Infrastructure. The article canvassed the build periods of US transport infrastructure - the 1930's during the Great Depression and the 1950's and …
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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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The 2013 Report Card for America's Infrastructure was published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The 2013 Report Card has its own website that provides a wide range of analysis. The site is well worth visiting if you want to gain an understanding of the problems and issues …
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On 15 May 2014, CPATT (Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology) and Norman W. McLeod Chair invited me as their speaker. I spoke at the University of Waterloo, Davis Centre on "Understanding Road Network Needs through Performance Measurement and Monitoring". I talked in a broad sense …
As I move around the U.S. providing asset management training, I am often asked some version of the question, “What's in it for me?" People want to know what benefits they will receive from asset management if they commit the time, energy, and resources to the program. I believe it is …
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Inframange Blog has had a visitor from Austria, the 50th country to visit and browse our website. The development of the Blog and the number of international visits shown have been encouraging. Thank you to all of our visitors. We really appreciate your interest. We are committed to …
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Infrastructure asset management practitioners who are handling a network of “very poor condition” assets need to show decision-makers the amount needed to restore assets to “very good condition”. The use of an optimized decision model does just that. The Deighton Water Model is able to …
