Talking about the Havelock North water contamination, a participant asked was a sanitary well survey conducted and are daily bacteria tests run on the system. Ross: Right, there were some, when I was referring to operational issues, that particular, it’s a long story. Look, like there is Eastlight lever arch folders from the floor to the ceiling, boxes of evidence around this. They … [Read more...]
Asset Management is About Level of Service that Protects Public Health
Ross and Heather continue to discuss the case of 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, … [Read more...]
Strategic Asset Management Planning eBook Available Now!
The "Strategic Asset Management Planning eBook is available now and ready for your reading and downloading. It's a compilation of the blog posts we've created from out of Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland. Below are the topics included in the infrastructure asset management eBook: Why Infrastructure Asset Management is a Flourishing Career What Is Strategic Asset … [Read more...]
Resolving Asset Management Issues – Ask the Experts October 2017 Webinar
Watch this recording and presentation slides of the Ask-the-Experts October 2017 webinar that Ross Waugh and Heather Himmelberger held. Ross and Heather had been conducting the Ask-the-Experts webinars since 2014. The webinar on 11 October 2017 is the 6th in the series. In this webinar, Ross and Heather focus on helping asset management practitioners resolve infrastructure asset management … [Read more...]
Asset Management Plans – How to Prepare, Implement and Review (eBook)
This is eBook is based on Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland. Download this eBook on Asset Management Plans and read what Ross had discussed on the following topics: Introducing Ross Waugh Asset Management Plans – Background and Resources Asset Management Plan International Standards – A Brief Introduction ISO 55000 – Relationship Between Key Elements of an Asset … [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, … [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 massive … [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 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 this 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 risk. And the … [Read more...]
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