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The Latest Tools and Techniques for Managing Infrastructure AssetsFully updated throughout, this practical resource provides a proven, cost-effective infrastructureasset management framework that integrates planning, design, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, and renovation. Public Infrastructure Asset Management,Second Edition, describes the most current methodologies for effectively managing roads, bridges, airports, utility services, water and waste facilities, parks, public buildings, and sports complexes.
This comprehensive guide covers information management and decision support systems, including proprietary solutions and new technological developments such ascloud storage. The book discusses total quality management, economics, life-cycle analysis, and maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction programming. Up-to-date examples and real-world case studies illustrate the practical applications of the concepts presented in this thoroughly revised reference.
This new edition features:
Planning, needs assessment, and performance indicators
Database management, data needs, and analysis
Inventory, historical, and environmental data
In-service monitoring and evaluation data
Performance modeling and failure analysis
Design for infrastructure service life
Construction
Maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction strategies, policies, and treatment alternatives
Dealing with new or alternate concepts
Prioritization, optimization, and work programs
Integrated infrastructure asset management systems
Visual IMS: an illustrative infrastructure management system and applications
Available asset management system and commercial off-the-shelf providers
Benefits of implementing an asset management system
Sustainability, environmental stewardship, and asset management
Future directions for infrastructure asset management