Asset Management IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

Overview

All the examples/case studies will be drawn from these two areas.The Asset Management short course is offered by IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.

Learning objectives

• Explain the historical processes that made asset management approach important for urban infrastructure engineers and managers and describe the drivers that make asset management crucial for sustainable provision of water related infrastructure services
• Define asset management in your own words. List and describe the essential steps of an asset management plan and provide example problems from one's own experience which asset management approach would be/would have been able to solve;
• Describe the techniques used in asset inventories (e.g. condition rating) and describe the importance of data for asset management process.
• Define databases and describe what a relational database is. Design a simple relational database (on paper!). List the important features of a relational database and appraise the use of data driven models in Asset Management. Describe sample approaches
• Explain Risk-based asset management decision making. Apply hydraulic modelling to establish significance of asset components of water distribution/drainage systems;
• Describe asset condition modelling approaches. Recommend suitable modelling approaches for practical problems and appraise the recent developments in the field of Asset Management of water infrastructure.
• Describe the concept of asset life-cycle costing. Perform LCC calculations using spreadsheet; o Describe the role of optimization in asset management. Apply optimization techniques for solving simple urban water problems.