Compendium of Best Practices in Asset Management (eBook)

Table of contents: Overview of water and wastewater infrastructure Asset Management; Historical Background; Asset Management Definition; Concepts used in Infrastructure Asset Management; Some guiding principles for IAM (sourced from Department of Water affairs south Africa, integrated asset management strategy); Asset Management around the Water World; Challenges and future needs; Global cooperation on Strategic Asset Management; Contributions from KWR – Netherlands; Meter-replacement optimisation at Duinwaterbedrijf Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands; Distribution network design at PWN Water Company North-Holland; Contributions from Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) – USA; Programme sustainability – A case study City of Hamilton, Canada; Application of practice of understanding the condition of buried assets – City of Atlanta, Georgia (Atlanta Department of Watershed Management); Application of practice of setting the required level of service - City of Columbus Water Works (CWW), GA; Application of reliability centred maintenance at their Deer Island advanced wastewater treatment plant as a best practice O&M strategy - Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), MASS; Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) takes aim at critical assets using risk-based decision-making and strategic asset management plans - City of Seattle (Washington State); Contributions from Water Research Foundation; Decision-making for capital investments - Seattle public utilities case study: Introduction; Continuous leak detection to monitor condition of water distribution pipes - American Water case study; Use of electronic mobile and field solutions by Las Vegas Valley Water District - Las Vegas Valley Water District; The use of GIS to support EPCOR’s business processes - EPCOR Water Services; Main replacement and rehabilitation program – Louisville Water Company; Contributions from UKWIR; Effective risk modelling of water infrastructure assets in the United Kingdom; Anglian Water’s strategic investment approach - A case study on its initial application to wastewater infrastructure; System planning and the asset management process adopted within Northumbrian Water Limited; A case study on water mains rehabilitation planning and implementation, United Utilities, UK; Change and asset management in Thames Water: building the (im)perfect beast; Capital maintenance Good practice guide Leading Edge Asset Decisions Assessment (LEADA) - Yorkshire Water; Contributions from PUB, Singapore; ‘Active, Beautiful, Clean’ (ABC) Waters Programme for Singapore’s sustainable assets management; Contributions from South Africa; European Union/DPLG Pilot Project Asset Planning for Four Municipalities; Free State Province and South African national monitoring of water and wastewater quality and improvement of asset management; Johannesburg Water and its "Operation Gcin'amanzi" service upgrading, asset management and demand management programme; DWAF National Water Services Infrastructure Asset Management Strategy; Sebokeng/Evaton water saving through pressure management; Rand Water major pipeline asset management; Rustenburg public-private partnership for upgrading, operation and maintenance of water and wastewater treatment infrastructure; Western Cape Provincial Government collaborative programme. - Asset management planning support for local municipalities.