Inframanage News is happy to present you some updates on infrastructure management planning, funding, and maintenance. In this week's curation, you will read about waste management, progress in water and wastewater infrastructure, and on infrastructure maintenance. The battle for dam …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Questions Answered in this Webinar
Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held another "Ask the Experts" webinar. As always, it was a great opportunity to ask your asset management questions or seek advice on how to begin. The webinar was held on Wednesday, 27 August 2014, 3:00 - 5:00 PM (EDT). Below is the link to the webinar …
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Biker Bar in Florida, Welcome to the Scooter Zone
This lighthearted image popped up on my Facebook wall this afternoon, and it made me smile. Welcome to the future - coming to a Western Country near you. The demographics profiles make it almost inevitable. If you are interested in the subject we have published a number of previous blog …
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Detroit Water Shut Offs – Management Techniques to Assist With Payment
In my previous post "Detroit, Michigan Water Shut Offs – a Right, a Privilege or an Infrastructure Asset Management Problem?", I have pointed out the infrastructure management issues arising from the Detroit water shutoffs. In the later part, I have expounded on the issue "So Who Pays?". …
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Detroit MI Water Shut-Offs, a Right, Privilege or an Infrastructure Asset Management Woe?
In this post, I discussed when Detroit, Michigan is in the news again, this time with sound and fury around planned water shutoffs. As of writing this post, a simple google search on the topic returns over 400,000 pages The issues facing the city of Detroit have been featured on this …
Transportation Asset Management Paper of Theuns Henning and Ross Waugh
On 28-30 April 2014, Dr. Theuns Henning and Ross Waugh attended the TRB 10th National Conference on Transportation Asset Management at Miami, Florida. They also had the opportunity to present the paper "The Evolution from a Simple Planning Document to an Integrated Asset Management Plan" An …
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Infrastructure Management Development in the US, UK, Islamabad, and Sri Lanka
Where is the US going in terms of infrastructure management direction? Will the infrastructure improvements scheme that local municipal officials initiated work? How will the US President convince the private sector to fund public infrastructure? Do you know that Pakistan and Sri Lanka …
Asset Management Pondering on Boston’s Solar Powered Park Benches
Bloomberg Businessweek recently reported on Boston's Solar-Powered Park Benches. The benches are designed to allow mobile phone charging and also the bench can connect to the internet and transmit a range of environmental and other diagnostic data. This is just a small trial but highlights …
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Why Asset Maintenance Program is Basic to Asset Management
In April 2014, Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held the Ask the Expert Asset Management Webinar. Inframanage.com is organizing blog posts out of the learning Ross and Heather shared with the participants—Asset Management practitioners around the USA. In the previous blog post entitled “3 …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Lessons in Toledo OH – What Price Water?
Reporting from the Toledo Blade and other news sources worldwide have told of a water crisis in Toledo and the subsequent state of emergency that was declared. Concerns about the presence of microcystin — a toxin produced by the harmful blue-green algae known as microcystins — had penetrated …
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Asset Management – More Learning from Actual Asset Inventory Experiences
In April 2014, Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held the Ask the Expert Asset Management Webinar. Inframanage.com is organizing blog posts out of the learning Ross and Heather shared with the participants—Asset Management practitioners around the USA. In the previous post “Tips to Successful …
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Los Angeles Water Main Break – Case for Infrastructure Asset Management
I was catching up on the news here in New Zealand this evening, and on our online news sites was this article about a major water main break in Los Angeles that has flooded UCLA, including a recently refurbished stadium, and forced the shutdown of Sunset Boulevard. An estimated 8 million …
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