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Inframanage.com has curated these updates on the infrastructure asset management industry. Below are ten news items that talks on water utilities, roads and highway infrastructure, infrastructure innovation, funding and other related items. Each news item has a brief annotation from our …
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The City of Philadelphia is starting the new year with an exciting new incentive to manage their Stormwater and Wastewater. The Philadelphia Water Department is proud to introduce two programs: the Stormwater Management Incentives Program (SMIP) and the Greened Acre Retrofit Program (GARP); both …
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2015 has arrived, and here at Inframanage.com we have had our first planning meeting for the year. We started our planning with a review of progress and achievements in 2014. In summary of this review - we are pleased with the progress the site has made, and we have met our major targets …
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In October 2014 the NAMS Forum 'Advanced Asset Management, A Journey to Excellence' was held in Auckland, New Zealand. The Forum organizers asked Ross to develop a presentation that provoked thought and discussion for the Forum attendees, and the technical streams that …
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Ross: And Heather, I met the gentleman at Albuquerque who wrote that and the thing that impressed me was he was a private individual. He was just helping out. He’s I think a voluntary custodian for his community of the water system. And if he wasn’t 75, he was that sort that age if …
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Ross: And Heather look one of the things we’ve found here that are very easy when you’re a small system to look at a 200 or 300-page asset management plan that’s being produced by LA or New York or a major system. And that’s just ridiculous. We can’t do that and the sure answer is you don’t …
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Do you have any advice on how to convince a small system that they need to have an asset management plan? Heather: My advice is, that it’s very important to work with them on whatever their biggest problem is and show them how asset management can help them solve that issue as a way to get …
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This video will enable you to understand the importance and implication of "Risk Management". Ross shares more details on the "Risk Management - FULL VERSION" video, the 9th of 16 videos slated under "Introduction to Practical Asset Management." Among the topics Ross discussed in the video …
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Ross releases Video No. 9 of the 16 videos in the "Introduction to Practical Asset Management - Summary Series" video seminar. In this video, Ross talks about "Risk Management". Considering that "Risk Management" is one of the major subject areas and integral to infrastructure asset …
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It is Christmas Eve and the middle of summer here in New Zealand. Christmas is the time of our summer vacation. New Zealand has four days public holidays over Christmas and New Year, with many taking the 3 days between the public holidays to have a good break. It is very traditional in New …
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Ross: And I think too Heather, just clicked back to that slide from Toledo, Ohio because they've had the "Do not drink (notice)" for the entire population due to that. They’re getting through the treatment plant. And yes that’s a different cause of the problem from a break or the Boston one …
Heather: And the other thing to think about is, different breaks have different criticality to a water utility. So a small break on a side street that it’s just tricking down the road, impacting a couple of customers is not the same as a major water main break that impacts the whole town …
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