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Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Infrastructure Management

Explains how to optimize the operation of water supply systems and the related advances in SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition – systems Examines the advances in design and construction methods such as BIM – Building Information Modeling Explains municipal budgeting, chain of planning, programming, and other related subjects Includes ...

Mar. 27, 2012

By IWA Publishing

The future evolution of IT in water infrastructure management

The water industry has been slow to take advantage of information technology (IT), but it is catching up quickly. In many parts of the world, water managers now depend entirely on IT to manage their water supply and wastewater services. IT has become a core part of the business. Computing environments have evolved from individual mainframe computers, through networks based on mini-computers, to ...

Apr. 16, 2007

By Innovyze

Risk management goals and identification of critical infrastructures

Strategic goals help streamlining risk management efforts, and criticality assessments of infrastructures benefit from such goals. This paper offers an introduction into recent German civil protection activities on this topic at national level. It offers a transferable concept on how to identify, document and justify priorities regarding critical infrastructure services. Based on human values it ...

Oct. 30, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Knowledge management for a new nuclear power infrastructure

The introduction of a nuclear power programme as a part of national energy strategy requires a complex consideration of many aspects of national infrastructure. Countries embarking on a new nuclear energy programme have the opportunity to establish effective knowledge management systems and processes from the outset, with the added benefit of readily available hard and software systems designed ...

Sep. 21, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Infrastructure asset management – the TRUST approach and professional tools

Strategic asset management (AM) of urban water infrastructures faces the challenge of dealing with expensive and long-lasting assets of a very diverse nature and wide-ranging useful lives and costs. Typically, utility managers inherit an infrastructure with assets in assorted conditions and stages in their lifecycle. They are expected to manage their value in order to ensure adequate service, ...

Mar. 11, 2016

By IWA Publishing

A measurement infrastructure for sustainable manufacturing

Global resource degradation, climate change, and environmental pollution are worsening due to increasing globalised industrialisation. Manufacturing industries have thus been put under pressure to cope with these problems while maintaining competitiveness. Sustainable manufacturing has been proposed to meet these challenges. The measurement of sustainability in manufacturing enables the ...

Aug. 30, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Alternative Approaches to Sustainable Infrastructure

ABSTRACTThe ability of a small community water infrastructure system to provide safe drinking water and protect the environment is heavily influenced by the utility’s financial sustainability. Particularly in this era of declining grant dollars, coupled with higher costs for construction, operation and maintenance, the economic viability of the small system is threatened. New alternative ...

Oct. 22, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Water Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities

A new model for water management is emerging worldwide in response to water shortages, polluted waterways, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Cities and towns are questioning the ecological and financial sustainability of big-pipe water, stormwater, and sewer systems and are searching for “lighter footprint” more sustainable solutions. Pilot projects are ...

Apr. 6, 2012

By IWA Publishing

Renewing Belgrade’s Water Infrastructure

After the trauma of the 1990s, new foreign and national investments in Belgrade’s water infrastructure is enabling the city to benefit from the latest advances in water supply technology… Introduction Situated on the banks of the rivers Sava and Danube, the citizens of Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia and Montenegro in the Balkans, have long benefited from ready access to water. ...

Jan. 1, 2003

By Innovyze

Infrastructure modelling 2.0

To support stakeholders involved in infrastructure development, we develop evolutionary models of these complex systems, which is a formidable task with respect to data requirements, information representation and knowledge management. Re-addressing a case on bio-electricity infrastructure evolution, we demonstrate first a series of visualisations of economic and ecologic system parameters as ...

Jan. 21, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

A Path To Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions

Today, for the most part, our communities’ infrastructure systems are developed and managed separately, by separate utilities and agencies. Sustainable infrastructure, on the other hand, blurs boundaries between our energy, transportation, water and waste systems to implement complementary strategies that benefit more than one system. Among our most important, and difficult, challenges will ...

Mar. 1, 2015

By BioCycle Magazine

Resilience of civil infrastructure systems: literature review for improved asset management

Infrastructure resilience has drawn significant attention in recent years, partly because the occurrence of low-probability and high-consequence disruptive events like Hurricane Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami, terrorism attack in New York, and others. Since civil infrastructure systems support society welfare and viability, continuous infrastructural operation is critical. Along protection ...

Dec. 10, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Overview of Infrastructure Asset Management A View from Both Sides of the Atlantic Ocean

AbstractEurope and the United Kingdom (UK) are at the forefront of Asset Management for water utilities. This is primarily due to the fact of privatization of water utilities in the UK. The UK is currently in the third generation of the Asset Management procedures and has well defined methods for identifying and managing assets. In the United Kingdom (UK), large scale Asset Management has been ...

Oct. 22, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Research agenda for an integrated approach to infrastructure planning, design and management

Building on broad discussions between many universities, this paper presents a research agenda based on a holistic, comprehensive view of the issues. It proposes that our infrastructure is a system of systems involving different technical manifestations and social organisations. The implication is that we need a fundamental reconsideration of how we look at system design, away from traditional ...

Apr. 3, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

On the vulnerability of critical infrastructures: "seeing it coming"

The paper addresses a number of concerns that are manifest in the safety management of critical infrastructures (CI) including, and especially, the effects of an increasing complexity on the safety managers' ability to comprehend and monitor the stability, predictability, and manoeuvrability of the systems at hand; the perverse effect of computer ubiquity on the CI safety quality; and, entailing ...

Feb. 7, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

Risk-based approach to manage aging urban water main infrastructure

The growing number of challenges in how to manage aging infrastructures, while maintaining a suitable level of service, have become major problems for many municipal water utility companies. As a result, municipalities are increasingly considering the concept of risk assessment and prioritization as the first and an important step that has to be used towards effective asset-management practices. ...

May 11, 2015

By IWA Publishing

Novelty detection and management to safeguard information-intensive critical infrastructures

When the complexity of a system increases, the number of possible faults and anomalous working conditions becomes very high; on the contrary, the number of ‘normal’ behaviours is generally low and often well determined by rules and constraints defined by the characteristics of the furnished services. In this paper, after a general overview of the SAFEGUARD1 system, a more detailed ...

Mar. 1, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Improving the Operations and Maintenance of Wastewater Infrastructure with Knowledge Management Systems

ChallengesFort Campbell, Kentucky is an active military facility that serves a dynamic population of up to 50,000 military and civilian personnel. The collection system assets include a 5 MGD treatment plant, 79 pump stations, 100 miles of gravity and force main sewers, and over 100 miscellaneous structures including oil/water separators and grease traps. Like many communities – this ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Risk management of an information infrastructure: a framework based upon security dependencies

A mathematical framework for the risk management of information infrastructures is presented. The framework describes the infrastructure at distinct abstraction layers by integrating four abstract models that describe, respectively, the relation among components due to the implementation, how rights are managed so that they are taken and granted among threat or users, the vulnerabilities and the ...

May 6, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

The operational tools for managing physical interdependencies among critical infrastructures

As a result of advances in information technology and the necessity of improved efficiency, Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have become increasingly automated and interlinked over the years. This linkage between CI results in a very complex and dynamic system. However, this growing complexity of CI and their interdependencies reveals new vulnerabilities. In fact, the interdependencies between CI ...

Sep. 4, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

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