Post Tagged with: "condition assessment"

Badger Meter, Inc. in April announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire UDlive Limited (“UDlive”), a provider of hardware‑enabled software solutions for sewer line monitoring based in the United Kingdom, for $100 million, plus contingent consideration. The transaction closed at the end of AprilRead More

The traditional mindset around managing buried infrastructure was to build it and, essentially, forget about it until the end of its useful life — that mindset is changing. In this new edition of Water Finance & Management Conversations, Paul Acosta, Principal Condition Assessment Specialist atRead More

By Anna Gagliardo & Kevin Weeks The Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) manages one of North America’s most extensive Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe (PCCP) networks, spanning 260 miles and supplying over two million residents across 11 counties with pipe mains ranging from 72 in. toRead More

System Owners Keenly Aware of the Importance of Condition Assessment in Preventing Catastrophic Problems By Mike Kezdi Water system owners have long known that certain vintage pressurized concrete pipes can break at a moment’s notice. When looking at concrete pressure pipe for water applications thereRead More

Every utility asset management program starts with answering three questions: What assets do I own?  Where are they? What condition are they in? This is a huge obstacle to getting started. Collecting assets and their attributes is an expensive exercise that takes a long time.Read More

Distribution pipes can fail five times more frequently than transmission mains and generally experience more leaks. But the consequence of failure on transmission mains can be significant, and repairs can cost into the tens of millions. Asha Budhlall, product manager at Mueller, joins us onRead More

By Paul Gagliardo The world’s dams and levees are essential infrastructure used to store water, control flooding, provide recreation and generate power. Dams and levee networks are designated as critical infrastructure and over their expected life exposed to multiple hazards, including flooding, storm surge, erosion, debrisRead More

Arcadis will lead the implementation of its Enterprise Decision Analytics solution for digital asset management for the City of Henderson, Nevada. A three-year commitment with a two-year renewal option, Arcadis will support the migration of information from the City’s legacy system to Enterprise Decision Analytics (EDA). TheRead More

Photos and charts courtesy of Utah State University. Analyzing Utah State University’s Third Study Examining Break Rates For all the out-of-sight, out-of-mind infrastructure we talk about in the water utility sector, water main breaks may be one of the more visible events that remind theRead More

By Jeff Griffiths Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) issues a Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, which depicts the condition and performance of American infrastructure in the familiar form of a school report card. For the first time this century, theRead More