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 was chlorinated, which Ross said that they wished it was. Ross explains further: There’s a … [Read more...]
The Importance of Making Valid Assumptions in Asset Management Planning
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 is something that we do a lot of asset management planning is we’re making a lot of … [Read more...]
Lessons from the Havelock North, NZ Water Contamination Incident
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 the case of the Havelock North water contamination incident. Ross: Thank you, Heather. And … [Read more...]
Better Asset Management Planning, Leadership, Trade-Offs, and Risk
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 longer period of time and therefore bring the average cost down. So, that’s a sort of stuff you … [Read more...]
Better Asset Management Planning and Political Decisions
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. And we’ve got all these other things. Because if you have a conversation about affording a stadium … [Read more...]
Conclusion and Further Strategic Asset Management Insights
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 trends and say hey this is what it looks like and then people play with it from there. You have … [Read more...]
Studying Niue’s Infrastructure Financial Projections
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. Everybody came to New Zealand. And we just recently did an asset management plan for every single … [Read more...]
More Better Asset Management Planning Examples
Central Otago So this is Central Otago, much smaller authority. This is water. Theuns has done some very interesting work with them around transportation. Cumulative price, but the really interesting thing with them is the average, the hundred-year average isn’t too bad. Just over a million dollars a year, it’s quite a small area. At the moment, the 30-year average is as well below … [Read more...]
Asset Management Strategy – Do Data Check and Analyze Well
So what I’ve got now, very quickly some examples. So this is the Dunedin City Infrastructure Strategy for water, water waste or stormwater through 2060. (See image above). Thinking about infrastructure waves, so thinking just to help you, the dark blue is water treatment renewals. That’s treatments, so what does that graph show you jump out of here, that graph. There are two things that … [Read more...]
New Zealand Infrastructure Construction Waves – A Closer Look
Ross talks about infrastructure waves in his previous post, "Studying Infrastructure Waves through Case Histories." Here, Ross provides a detailed explanation illustrating New Zealand's infrastructure construction waves. If we look at this New Zealand case study, so here’s 1965, we got this peak of water installation expenditure. So this is water reticulation. And then around 2005, … [Read more...]
Studying Infrastructure Construction Waves through Case Histories
This is one is from that same report. The blue line is transportation expenditure in New Zealand, you can see from 1965 and this 1987 recession, it was a little bit of a downward decline coming out of that. There was a dip there but it’s come up but that line across is being pretty steady, okay. And again, I’ve got some examples coming up where we’re going to ask you what the results of … [Read more...]
How Recession Impact Infrastructure Spending – The New Zealand Case
So, this is where you guys start to have to do some work and a bit of response back, we have at about a quarter of an hour, haven't we Theuns. So, this graph here is a graph for New Zealand that was produced by the office of the auditor general by NZIER. And so, the blue line was capital expenditure, fixed capital expenditure. And the grey line is the consumption of capital. And this … [Read more...]
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