urban water infrastructure Articles
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A utility-tailored methodology for integrated asset management of urban water infrastructure
This paper presents the integrated methodology for infrastructure asset management (IAM) developed in AWARE-P, an R&D project aimed at producing adequate and effective support tools for assisting urban water utilities in decision making and rehabilitation planning (www.aware-p.org). The proposed methodology addresses all three planning and decisional levels (strategic, tactical and ...
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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, ...
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Factors affecting economies of scale in combined sewer systems
A generic model is introduced that represents the combined sewer infrastructure of a settlement quantitatively. A catchment area module first calculates the length and size distribution of the required sewer pipes on the basis of rain patterns, housing densities and area size. These results are fed into the sewer-cost module in order to estimate the combined sewer costs of the entire catchment ...
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Assessing human resources renovation needs in water utilities
Human resources are one of the most important assets of water utilities (WUs), being responsible for assuring systems management and playing an important role in the tacit forms of organizational knowledge. In organizations with responsibility for managing extensive, diverse infrastructure with long life-cycles, with adequate service and acceptable risk levels, knowledge transfer between ...
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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 ...
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Innovation results of IAM planning in urban water services
The requirement to provide urban water services continuously while infrastructures are ageing, imposes the need for increasingly sustainable infrastructure asset management (IAM). To achieve and maintain adequate levels of service, the AWARE-P IAM methodology has been applied in collaborative projects launched by the National Civil Engineering Laboratory, in partnership with IST (Technical ...
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How Can Artificial Intelligence Tackle the Water Crisis?
When we talk about the water crisis, it’s easy to imagine that these problems are only happening a long way off and only in places that see prolonged periods of drought and very little annual precipitation. This is perhaps especially true for those who call Great Britain home, an island famed for its wet weather and damp climate. The water crisis surely couldn’t rear its ugly head on ...
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