Major shifts in the competitive environment encouraged a recent growth in the number of
academic articles devoted to strategic aspects of asset management. Organizations start to …

Many developed high density cities around the world are facing unprecedented challenges
as their infrastructure facilities are aging while citizen demands are ever surging. The …

Recently enacted regulations in Canada and elsewhere require water utilities to be
financially self-sustaining over the long-term. This implies full cost recovery for providing …

Municipalities are under increasing pressure to adopt proactive and optimized renewal
strategies to reduce the risks, life-cycle costs, and resources needed to maintain acceptable …

Municipal infrastructure management decision making is inherently an integrated process
that requires the assimilation of a multitude of data, processes, and software systems …

Domain ontologies are the cornerstone of informatics systems. Like their philosophical
counterparts, they aim at providing a shared representation (language) for the concepts …

Improving the environmental performance of built environments has received wider interest
in the recent past. Asset management is an under-utilized strategy to enhance and maintain …

Public infrastructure management agencies in the United States are facing multiple
challenges, including aging infrastructure, reduction in capacity of existing infrastructure …

Causal loop diagrams are developed for wastewater collection networks to identify complex
interactions and feedback loops among physical, financial, and social sectors. Causal loop …

This study involved a survey of Swedish water utilities to evaluate their pipe-network data-
collection objectives, usage, storage, and exchange routines. Factors impacting data …