In the "Gap Analysis and Review – Infrastructure Asset Management Diagram" post, Ross emphasized the importance of identifying, reviewing, and reconciling the gaps in the asset management plan. In this post, Ross explains further about financials and risks. Read his summary and don't miss his …
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Gap Analysis and Review – Infrastructure Asset Management Diagram
So, it’s easy, isn’t it? Good. You go write an asset management plan but what happens is when the minute you start doing this, you’ll realize you've got gaps. So, hey, here’s the service level we like but we’re not delivering that or you’ve got gaps in that. Here’s the demand we think was …
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3 Free eBooks to Build Your Infrastructure Asset Management Knowledge
DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY! IT'S FREE! Inframanage.com is happy to publish the three-part eBook series on "Infrastructure Asset Management - Myths, Realities, and Money" These eBooks were crafted based on the topics that Ross Waugh discussed in his lecture video of his keynote …
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Climate Adaptation Platform Info Available Here
Yes, the Climate Adaptation Site has been created to provide you with primary information on the Climate Adaptation Platform programs and activities. Initiated by the University of Auckland, the Climate Adaptation Platform is a collaboration of New Zealand's biggest engineering construction and …
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ASCE 2017 Infrastructure Report Card and Asset Management Planning
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) releases a report on the state of the USA’s general infrastructure both on a Federal and State level every few years, with the previous report being issued in 2013. The ASCE conducts this detailed report in sixteen major target areas of …
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Lifecycle Management and Financials – Infrastructure Asset Management’s Engine Room and Fuel
Ross continues to explain the “Service Levels, Growth, Risk, Lifecycle Management Diagram” and in this post, he talks about "Lifecycle Management" and "Financials" Lifecycle Management Lifecycle management in the middle here, this is the engine room. So you’re looking at your operational …
Understanding Future Demand and Risk
Explaining the "Service Levels, Growth, Risk, Lifecycle Management Diagram" in the previous post, Ross talked about "Levels of Service." In this post, Ross explains "Future Demand" and "Risk" and he cites a significant risk management lesson from the Christchurch earthquake. Future …
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The Service Levels, Growth, Risk, Lifecycle Management Diagram
So this is from this paper a year ago. The reason I produced it was, we were getting, I think in our industry, the practitioners, they’re getting in a situation, where they’re going through those manuals and there was too much information and too much complexity. And what I wanted to do is to say …
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Singapore’s Answer to Wastewater Management – Effective Infrastructure Management
Engineers in the tiny island nation of Singapore have been constructing a state of the art new sewer system, know as the DTSS (Deep Tunnel Sewer System). Phase one of the project was completed in 2008 and phase two began in 2013. It is a cost-effective and sustainable solution, offered by the …
Steps in Preparing an Asset Management Plan
So the thing is I’m going to take you through - the next few slides are on “Steps in Preparing an AMP.” And these steps are based on my experience over the last 20 years. And they come out with a paper that I produced at the IPWEA International Conference also the International Federation …
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Sections within Asset Management Plan
This is a diagram of a typical structure within an asset management plan and these ones I’ve lifted out. So, as a consulting organization, we’ve done asset plans for whole countries. Being in the Pacific islands Tokelau and Niue and we’ve also done one recently for the entire Solomon Island …
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ISO 55000 – Relationship Between Key Elements of an Asset Management System
This diagram here is straight out of the ISO and at the top here you have your stakeholders. You have your organizational plans, objectives, and policy. You have a strategy. We’ll talk more about the strategy in the next lecture. And then you have asset management plans at this level …
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