Want to learn more? Below are links and documents for use in conjunction with CDM's comprehensive asset management program.
Asset Management Strategy
A Practical Guide for Utility and Public Works Directors.pdf
A summary on asset management's history and background for utility and public works directors.
Managing Asset Management.pdf
A leadership strategy for asset management.
Designing an Asset Management System.pdf
Taking the right steps in designing your asset management strategy.
Managing Infrastructure Assets: A Best Practice by the National Guide to Sustainable Municipal Infrastructure.pdf
Published November 2003 by Infrastructure Canada, this excellent guide provides a comprehensive view of asset management for all municipal infrastructure assets.
Making Asset Management Work for You.ppt
The strategic integration of business processes, competencies, and data from key business units to maximize asset management for your organization.
Asset Management Primer.pdf
Published in 1999 by the U.S. Department of Transportation, this excellent guide served as a "call-to-arms" for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Asset Management. It remains one of the best (and earliest) guides on asset management.
Inventory of Assets
Software Promotes Consistency and Flexibility for Treatment Plant Asset Inventory and Assessment.ppt
A case study on New York City's North River wastewater treatment plant.
Financial Valuation of Assets
Common Sense and Asset Management.pdf
The key to proper asset management is to take a common-sense approach to renewal and replacement planning that involves both strategic and tactical elements.
Dawn of the Replacement Era: Reinvesting in Drinking Water Infrastructure.pdf
This seminal research, sponsored by the American Water Works Association and published in May 2001, presents compelling evidence of the need for local governments and water utilities to invest hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 30 years to maintain and preserve our underground pipeline assets. The famous "Nessie Curve" illustrating the rising tide of investment requirements is presented.
Capital and Operational Budgets
Build a Better Business Case to Fund Infrastructure Rehabilitiation
Two CDM experts provide insights on how to acquire and properly manage funds for vital infrastructure rehabilitation projects.
Water Infrastructure Financing Capital Planning and Privatization
This 2002 report by the General Accounting Office describes the needs and acceptable methods for financing water infrastructure improvements.
Asset Management for Sewer Collection Systems.pdf
EPA's fact sheet explains how to manage infrastructure capital assets to minimize the total costs, while delivering customer service.
Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey: EPA's first report to Congress, January 1997.pdf
Reports on a nationwide survey of water utility infrastructure investment needs, indicating a 20-year investment requirement of over $120 billion.
Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey: EPA's second report to Congress, February 2001.pdf
Updates the first report to Congress 5 years prior.
Comprehensive Asset Management Has Potential to Help Utilities Better Identify Needs and Plan Future Investments.pdf
This 2004 report by the General Accounting Office provides case studies of water utilities implementing asset management programs.
Technology Planning and Management
IT Strategic Planning: A Tool for Navigating Treacherous IT Waters.ppt
Presented at an IMTech workshop conducted in 2003.
Scale Accuracy and Cost - GIS Demands an Understanding of the Basics.pdf
Basic principles for building a GIS.
An Enterprise Warehouse Architecture.pdf
Why dynamic metadata is a superior means of simultaneously distributing and preserving your geospatial information assets.
Other Educational Resources Links
The Water Infrastructure Network (WIN) is a broad-based coalition of local elected officials, drinking water, and wastewater service providers, state environmental and health administrators, engineers, and environmentalists dedicated to preserving and protecting the health, environmental, and economic gains that America's drinking water and wastewater infrastructure provides.
The Federal Highway Administration's Office of Asset Management is one of the only government entities dedicated to the management of civil infrastructure assets. The office provides leadership and expertise in the systematic management of roads, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure. This Web site contains several useful guides and tools.
EPA's Web Site for Small Systems
A guide for small drinking water systems developing an asset management plan.
National Guide to Sustainable Municipal Infrastructure
Published by Infrastructure Canada, this resource provides a valuable and growing collection of best practices in management of roads and sidewalks, potable water, storm water and wastewater, decision-making and investment planning, and transit.
Transportation Asset Management Today
Sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, this site is dedicated to the open exchange of information and knowledge about transportation asset management. Participation is open to the public.