It’s a constant tension. So, there’s no right or easy answer to it. I mean you can get smarter about phasing your work, so you can go and say, hey look we could phase it, spread that out rather than trying to do it all there. We could get a bit more life for those pipes, we can phase it over a longer period of time and therefore bring the average cost down. So, that’s a sort of stuff you … [Read more...]
Better Asset Management Planning and Political Decisions
A question was asked: Right so if you look at this one for Hamilton, where they’ve got, oh hey, here we’ve got $100 million there, and we’ve got 80 there. If there was a big lump in here that was $200 million for a stadium then you add them up, you’ve got - oh we don’t have that much money. And we’ve got all these other things. Because if you have a conversation about affording a stadium … [Read more...]
Conclusion and Further Strategic Asset Management Insights
So just in conclusion, 10 to 30 year plus, big pictures, key issues, integrates through that continuum to tactical and project planning. You need to develop a strategic vision, that’s the hard bit because of politicians and the public can’t do it. That’s a bit hard, but it’s around looking those trends and say hey this is what it looks like and then people play with it from there. You have … [Read more...]
Studying Niue’s Infrastructure Financial Projections
This is the country of Niue, a little island. It’s a self-governing, in free association with New Zealand. A lot of New Zealanders got there for holidays in tourism. They are able to come to New Zealand. When that was allowed, the population sort of went from about 10,000 to about 2,000. Everybody came to New Zealand. And we just recently did an asset management plan for every single … [Read more...]
More Better Asset Management Planning Examples
Central Otago So this is Central Otago, much smaller authority. This is water. Theuns has done some very interesting work with them around transportation. Cumulative price, but the really interesting thing with them is the average, the hundred-year average isn’t too bad. Just over a million dollars a year, it’s quite a small area. At the moment, the 30-year average is as well below … [Read more...]
Asset Management Strategy – Do Data Check and Analyze Well
So what I’ve got now, very quickly some examples. So this is the Dunedin City Infrastructure Strategy for water, water waste or storm water through 2060. (See image above). Thinking about infrastructure waves, so thinking just to help you, the dark blue is water treatment renewals. That’s treatments, so what does that graph show you jump out of here, that graph. There are two things that … [Read more...]
New Zealand Infrastructure Construction Waves – A Closer Look
Ross talks about infrastructure waves in his previous post, "Studying Infrastructure Waves through Case Histories." Here, Ross provides a detailed explanation illustrating New Zealand's infrastructure construction waves. If we look at this New Zealand case study, so here’s 1965, we got this peak of water installation expenditure. So this is water reticulation. And then around 2005, … [Read more...]
Studying Infrastructure Construction Waves through Case Histories
This is one is from that same report. The blue line is transportation expenditure in New Zealand, you can see from 1965 and this 1987 recession, it was a little bit of a downward decline coming out of that. There was a dip there but it’s come up but that line across is being pretty steady, okay. And again, I’ve got some examples coming up where we’re going to ask you what the results of … [Read more...]
Applying Infrastructure Asset Management Practice to Shun “Day Zero”
Cape Town, South Africa is facing a very dire situation due to a three-year-long mega-drought. By May, the city was expecting to have to turn off its water supply and hand out a meager 25 liters per day to its citizens, who will have to make their way through long and potentially dangerous crowds to one of 200 distribution points throughout the city. The shut-off day - known as "Day Zero" … [Read more...]
American Public Works Association PWX to be held in Kansas City, MO
The APWA Public Works Expo (PWX) will be held in Kansas City, Missouri on 26th-29th August 2018 in conjunction with the International Federation of Municipal Engineers (IFME) World Congress In New Zealand, IPWEA NZ is a member of IFME and a sister organization of APWA. Ross has attended and presented at the previous two IFME World Congresses in Helsinki, Finland in 2012 and … [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...]
How Infrastructure Asset Management Boosts Infra Spending in Rural US
The US Department of Agriculture has recognized several pressing needs in rural US communities and has plans to invest $267 million to improve water and wastewater systems in 103 projects. Many of these communities have very limited water infrastructure and risk of contamination. Water Technology reports: "USDA’s investments towards water infrastructure include $116,000 loan to the … [Read more...]
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