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Ross and Heather continue to discuss the case of the Havelock North New Zealand water contamination incident. A webinar attendee's question led Ross and Heather to discuss the importance of levels of service and public health. The participant asked whether the water system at Havelock North …
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In the previous post, Ross presented the case of the Havelock North water contamination incident, explaining the lessons learned. Here, Ross cites the importance of making valid assumptions in asset management based on what happened in Havelock North. Ross explains: The other thing and this …
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Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held another "Ask the Experts - Resolving Asset Management Issues" webinar on 11 October 2017. Inframanage.com presents the webinar topics through a series of blog posts. After Heather made some words of introduction to the webinar, she invited Ross to present …
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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 …
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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 …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Learning for you. Download this FREE eBook 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 Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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So just, in conclusion, 10 to 30 year plus, big pictures, key issues, integrate 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 …
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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. …
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