Strategic Asset Management of Water Supply and Wastewater Infrastructures
Maria do Ceu Almeida editor Helena Alegre editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:IWA Publishing
Published:14th Sep '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Water and Wastewater companies operating all around the world have faced rising asset management and replacement costs, often to levels that are financially unsustainable.
Management of investment needs, while meeting regulatory and other goals, has required:
- A better understanding of what customers demand from the services they pay for, and the extent to which they are willing to pay for improvements or be compensated for a reduction in performance
- Development of models to predict asset failure and to identify and concentrate investment on critical assets Improved management systems
- Improved accounting for costs and benefits and their incorporation within an appropriate cost-benefit framework
- Incorporation of risk management techniques
- Utilisation of advanced maintenance techniques including new rehabilitation failure detection technologies
- Enhancements in pipeline materials, technologies and laying techniques.
ISBN: 9781843391869
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
Weight: unknown
548 pages