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12/04/2019 By Admin Leave a Comment

How Important Capital Investment Planning is in Asset Management (Video Blog)

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Capital investment planning is a very important area of infrastructure asset management practice, Ross begins in this video blog. Ross talked about some capital investment planning tips in his previous video blog. In this vlog, he discusses the importance of capital investment planning, his observations and its implications using the "Lifecycle Cost Profile" below. Source: International … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asset Management Video Blog, Inframanage Videos, Infrastructure Asset Management Tagged With: asset management video blogs, capital investment planning, design and construction cost, disposal costs, lifecycle cost, lifecycle cost profile, operation and maintenance cost, planning, Ross Waugh

23/11/2018 By Admin Leave a Comment

Discussing Asset Management Practice for Your Infrastructure System

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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. You can have a system but if the management decides not to use it or use it infrequently that can’t correct problems for you. - Ross Waugh Ross: Right, there were some, when I was referring to operational issues, that particular, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ask the Experts 11 October 2017, Infrastructure Asset Management Tagged With: asset management issues, asset management practice, computerized maintenance management system, environmental finance center network, Heather Himmelberger, infrastructure asset management issues, infrastructure asset management system, maintenance management system, Public Health, Ross Waugh

23/11/2018 By Admin 1 Comment

Asset Management is About Level of Service that Protects Public Health

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Ross and Heather continue to discuss the case of the Havelock North New Zealand water contamination incident. I think in New Zealand now we’re refocusing ourselves on remembering that water and wastewater systems are about protecting public health - Ross Waugh A webinar attendee's question led Ross and Heather to discuss the importance of levels of service and public health. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ask the Experts 11 October 2017, Infrastructure Asset Management Tagged With: asset management, asset management issues, asset management system, environmental finance center network, Flint Michigan, havelock north nz, Heather Himmelberger, inframanage, inframanage.com, infrastructure asset management issues, infrastructure asset management system, Public Health, Ross Waugh, water chlorination

23/11/2018 By Admin 2 Comments

The Importance of Making Valid Assumptions in Asset Management Planning

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"If you run on an assumption that’s incorrect, it’s going to hurt you at some stage." -Ross Waugh 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ask The Experts, Ask the Experts 11 October 2017, Infrastructure Asset Management Tagged With: asset management issues, asset management system, environmental finance center network, havelock north nz, Heather Himmelberger, inframanage, inframanage.com, infrastructure asset management issues, infrastructure asset management system, Ross Waugh

22/11/2018 By Admin 1 Comment

Lessons from the Havelock North, NZ Water Contamination Incident

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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. Te Mata Peak 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ask The Experts, Ask the Experts 11 October 2017, Infrastructure Asset Management Tagged With: asset management issues, asset management system, environmental finance center network, havelock north nz, Heather Himmelberger, inframanage, inframanage.com, infrastructure asset management issues, infrastructure asset management system, Ross Waugh

21/11/2018 By Admin 1 Comment

Strategic Asset Management Planning eBook Available Now!

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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 CareerWhat Is Strategic Asset … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Inframanage eBooks, Inframanage Learning, Infrastructure Asset Management, Infrastructure Asset Management Courses, Infrastructure Asset Management Learning, Infrastructure Asset Management Online Education, Infrastructure Asset Management Online Learning, Strategic Asset Management, Strategic Asset Management Planning Tagged With: asset management planning lecture, infrastructure construction waves, ISO 55000, legislative consideration, Ross Waugh, strategic asset management challenges, strategy vision, University of Auckland, University of Auckland lectures

05/11/2017 By Admin 7 Comments

Resolving Asset Management Issues – Ask the Experts October 2017 Webinar

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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...]

Filed Under: Ask The Experts, Ask the Experts 11 October 2017, Infrastructure Asset Management, Infrastructure Asset Management Courses, Infrastructure Asset Management Learning, Infrastructure Asset Management Online Education, Infrastructure Asset Management Online Learning, Infrastructure Management Education Tagged With: asset management, asset management issues, asset management system, asset management vs. managing assets, environmental finance center network, Heather Himmelberger, inframanage, inframanage.com, infrastructure asset management issues, infrastructure asset management system, Ross Waugh

18/05/2017 By Admin 8 Comments

Asset Management Plans – How to Prepare, Implement and Review (eBook)

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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 WaughAsset Management Plans – Background and ResourcesAsset Management Plan International Standards – A Brief IntroductionISO 55000 – Relationship Between Key Elements of an Asset Management … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Infrastructure Asset Management, Preparing Implementing Reviewing AMP Tagged With: AMP, Asset Management Plans, factors of safety, iconic assets, Lifecycle Management, NZTA, One Network Road Classification, reviewing AMPs, Ross Waugh, service level categories, service levels, simple IAM diagram, University of Auckland

30/04/2017 By Admin 4 Comments

Asset Management Plans – Conclusion

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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...]

Filed Under: Infrastructure Asset Management, Preparing Implementing Reviewing AMP Tagged With: AMP, Asset Management Plans, factors of safety, ISO 55000, Levels of Service-Cost-Risk Diagram, Lifecycle Management, reviewing AMPs, Ross Waugh, service level categories, service levels, simple IAM diagram, University of Auckland

30/04/2017 By Admin 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Infrastructure Asset Management, Preparing Implementing Reviewing AMP Tagged With: AMP, Asset Management Plans, factors of safety, ISO 55000, Levels of Service-Cost-Risk Diagram, Lifecycle Management, reviewing AMPs, Ross Waugh, service level categories, service levels, simple IAM diagram, University of Auckland

30/04/2017 By Admin 3 Comments

Factors of Safety and How to Model and Communicate Risk Trade-offs

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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...]

Filed Under: Infrastructure Asset Management, Preparing Implementing Reviewing AMP Tagged With: AMP, Asset Management Plans, factors of safety, ISO 55000, Levels of Service-Cost-Risk Diagram, Lifecycle Management, reviewing AMPs, Ross Waugh, service level categories, service levels, simple IAM diagram, University of Auckland

30/04/2017 By Admin 3 Comments

What Infrastructure Managers Lose When Infrastructure Fails

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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...]

Filed Under: Infrastructure Asset Management, Preparing Implementing Reviewing AMP Tagged With: AMP, Asset Management Plans, factors of safety, ISO 55000, Levels of Service-Cost-Risk Diagram, Lifecycle Management, reviewing AMPs, Ross Waugh, service level categories, service levels, simple IAM diagram, University of Auckland

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