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Public infrastructure asset management /

"This comprehensive resource provides thorough coverage of the tools and techniques used in planning, building, maintaining, and fixing civil infrastructure. Thoroughly updated throughout, Public Infrastructure Asset Management, Second Edition presents the framework and elements of life cycle m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hudson, W. Ronald
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Other Authors: Uddin, Waheed, Haas, R. C. G. (Ralph C. G.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [2013]
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Subjects:
Engineering > Management.
Infrastructure (Economics) > Management.
Life cycle costing.
Engineering economy.
Project management.
Assets (Accounting)
Electronic books.
Computer network resources.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The challenge of managing infrastructure
  • Part 2. Information management and decision support systems
  • Part 3. Concepts of total quality management
  • Part 4. Economics, life-cycle analysis, and M,R&R programming
  • Part 5. IAMS development and implementation, examples.
  • The big picture
  • Framework for infrastructure asset management
  • Planning, needs assessment, and performance indicators
  • Database management, data needs, analysis
  • Inventory, historical, and environmental data
  • In-service monitoring and evaluation data
  • Uses of monitoring data and examples of in-service evaluation
  • Performance modeling and failure analysis
  • Design for infrastructure service life
  • Construction
  • Maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction strategies, including operations
  • Dealing with new or alternate concepts
  • Maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction policies and treatment alternatives
  • Life-cycle cost and benefit analysis
  • Prioritization, optimization, and work programs
  • Concept of 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 ams
  • Sustainability, environmental stewardship, and asset management
  • Future directions for infrastructure asset management.