The U.S. Senate and the President signed a new piece of legislation that is set to improve the upgrade and maintenance of water infrastructure all over the country. The Water Infrastructure Act (known as WIA) will allow states to put more finance into water infrastructure and is hoped to ensure the eventual reality of all Americans having personal access to safe drinking water. Water … [Read more...]
The Manila Water Model – Community Engagement with Water Utility Management
In the mid-90s the Philippine Government recognized that they had a national water crisis on their hands. Only 26% of the residents of Metro Manila had 24-hour access to drinkable water and the poor of the city didn't have access to clean drinking water at all. In 1997 this changed dramatically for the East Zone of Metro Manila when the Manila Water Company utility took over management of … [Read more...]
Strategic Asset Management Planning eBook Available Now!
The "Strategic Asset Management Planning eBook is available now and ready for your reading and downloading. It's a compilation of the blog posts we've created from out of Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland. Below are the topics included in the infrastructure asset management eBook: Why Infrastructure Asset Management is a Flourishing Career What Is Strategic Asset … [Read more...]
Water Utility Management Lessons from Lansing’s Water System Project
Lansing, Michigan has succeeded in replacing all of it's 12,500 lead pipes. This large project has come at a high cost for the utility, but with careful investment, it has become a very manageable cost. The city has succeeded in avoiding problems that have arisen in other areas of the state of Michigan by thinking ahead and realizing that replacing old water infrastructure is crucial and … [Read more...]
Asset Management – How to Start and Practice Actively (Webinar)
We are happy to share the "Ask the Expert" webinar that Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held on 30 August 2018 at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Know more about the asset management experts in this webinar by watching the video above. Planning to start an asset management program? Then watch the video and know what Heather and Ross discussed on the following: Where do we start? How do … [Read more...]
Better Asset Management Planning, Leadership, Trade-Offs, and Risk
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...]
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