Watch Ross Waugh's video blog with a video clip on location at Kaikoura. Kaikoura suffered a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in November 2016 and the town suffered extensive damage. When a major disaster strikes, natural (e.g. earthquakes, floods, typhoons) or man-made (like wars), what would you …
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Demand Management and More Asset Management Resources (Video Blog)
Ross provides a brief overview of "Demand Management" in this video blog. In this vlog, he talks about "Urbanization" as one big macro trend where people are coming to the cities resulting in creating population growth and infrastructure demands. It would be interesting to know how a city or …
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Asset Management Plan and Demand Management Overview (Video Blog)
In this video blog, Ross gives an overview of asset management plans and demand management. He mentioned sharing further details on the topic in his "Asset Management Planning Lecture at the University of Auckland." Ross talks about where the asset management plans fit in the wider asset …
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How Important Capital Investment Planning is in Asset Management (Video Blog)
Capital investment planning is a very important area of infrastructure asset management practice, Ross begins in this video blog. Ross talked about some capital investment planning tips in his previous video blog. In this vlog, he discusses the importance of capital investment planning, his …
The Metro Manila Water Crisis and Infrastructure Management Planning
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, …
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Water Shortage in Manila – How Asset Management Planning Helps
A huge issue that can happen to a water utility service company and its customers is failing to provide enough or no supply of its primary commodity. This is happening in Metro Manila, particularly with the Manila Water Company. Since early March, water supply shortage has besieged Manila Water, …
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Christchurch Terror Event Reflections – How Can We Make a Difference? (Video Blog)
In this video blog, Ross asks how we can make a difference as infrastructure asset management professionals. A week after the terrorist attack on two mosques at Christchurch, New Zealand on 15th March, Ross Waugh shares his reflections. He shares that it's been a tough time for the families, …
Water Utility Management – Using Social Media to Communicate and Keep Levels of Service
In our previous blog post, "The Manila Water Model – Community Engagement with Water Utility Management" we mentioned how the water utility company goes to the grassroots level in water management. Well, we based that blog post on the article that we read on the Malaysian publication. In the …
Asset Management Training, Mentoring and Capital Investment Planning Tips (Video Blog)
In this vlog, Ross shares his training and mentoring activities. Ross observes that Universities and National Associations are good starting places for asset management training. Watch this video blog and know where to start if you're looking for training courses on infrastructure asset …
ISO 55000 Asset Management, Infrastructure Outlook, Replacement Constraints (Video Blog)
Following what we have mentioned in our "Welcome to Inframanage 2019" post, Inframanage.com continues to put up video blogs. In this short 4-minute vlog, Ross Waugh discusses the following topics: ISO 55000 Asset Management Global Infrastructure Outlook Infrastructure Replacement and Capital …
Discussing Asset Management Practice for Your Infrastructure System
Talking about the Havelock North water contamination, a participant asked was a sanitary well survey conducted and are daily bacteria tests run on the system. Ross: Right, there were some, when I was referring to operational issues, that particular, it’s a long story. They had done well …
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