Ross Waugh conducted a lecture on Asset Management Planning and Demand Management at the University of Auckland in May 2019. We divided Ross' lecture into two parts because the video is more than two hours. "Asset Management Planning" is the first part of Ross' lecture. It covers the following subtopics: Disciplines of Asset ManagementGuiding Principles of Road Asset ManagementWhat are … [Read more...]
Asset Management Plans – Conclusion
So in conclusion, in New Zealand, we’ve had 20 years of asset plans and 7 cycles of development. We’ve got guidance available through plans and resources and templates for the specific industries as well as across multiple industries. Levels of service, future demand, risk are the key inputs to life cycle analysis. If you try to do your asset life cycle analysis without those inputs, you … [Read more...]
The Walkerton Canada E. coli Outbreak and its Worldwide Implication on Infrastructure Risk Management Practice
This is a different example. So this was Walkerton, Canada in 2000. So what happened here, they’ve got some bores, they have cows around and they’ve got E. coli, a particular type of E. coli that are carried in cow manure into the bores. Because they had set up a contract with, they have a performance-based contract with the contractor if they haven’t got the chlorine in, they’ve got … [Read more...]
Factors of Safety and How to Model and Communicate Risk Trade-offs
So, the other thing is, this is the Minnesota River Bridge, in the US. I don’t know if you remember. In 2007 it collapsed; killed 13 people, 145 injured. This is the Mississippi River and it made worldwide news at the time. The bridge dropped into the Mississippi River while they were repairing it, by the way. The thing was, if you go back to the 1970s and 80s, in engineering, there were … [Read more...]
What Infrastructure Managers Lose When Infrastructure Fails
Now the interesting thing about that threshold of safety and trust is you can spend heaps of dollars and get your levels of service up to and get your risks back down but you never get your trust back. So as infrastructure asset management practitioners, if you build something that fails or you have a failure sequence like that one at Flint that’s recent, once you lose your trust, so in … [Read more...]
Levels of Service-Cost-Risk Diagram and the Flint Michigan Water Case
Alright. Levels of service. So levels of service, cost, and risk. And again this came out of the Road Maintenance Task Force work and one of the things we see are these three axes. So levels of service, you can say, hey I’ve got these levels of service and it going to cost me here at this much. And over here, remember I said to you earlier the risk is often hidden. There’s a risk. And the … [Read more...]
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DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY! IT'S FREE! We have organized the topics discussed during the Ask-the-Experts webinar that Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held on 30 June 2016. Please browse the topics included in the eBook: Understanding the Levels of Service-Cost-Risk DiagramInfrastructure Asset Management Practice – How Risk Impacts Cost?Things to Consider in Starting Infrastructure … [Read more...]
Infrastructure Asset Management Practice – How Risk Impacts Cost?
In the previous post, Ross explained the "Levels of Service-Cost-Risk Diagram" and he continued to provide a couple of illustrations. Heather also mentioned two examples regarding the safety and trust threshold. Ross: And a couple of examples that have dropped out recently is that, was obviously in transportation, the Mississippi bridge failure back in 2007. So it killed - people were … [Read more...]
Understanding the Levels of Service-Cost-Risk Diagram
On 30 June 2016, Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held another "Ask the Expert: A Unique Opportunity to Ask Your Asset Management Questions or Seek Advice on How to Begin" webinar. Inframanage.com presents the webinar topics through a series of blog posts. Heather: Great. Again thank you all for being here today. And just as a reminder, we’d like to focus this as much as possible … [Read more...]