Public Infratructure Asset Management, 2nd Edition

Title: Public Infratructure Asset Management, 2nd Edition
Author: Ralph Haas, W. Hudson, Waheed Uddin
ISBN: 0071820116 / 9780071820110
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 464
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2013
Availability: 45-60 days

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This comprehensive resource provides thorough coverage of the tools and techniques used in planning, building, maintaining, and fixing civil infrastructure.

Thoroughly updated throughout, Public Infratructure Asset Management, Second Edition presents the framework and elements of life cycle management of civil infrastructure assets in the context of current practice. The book explains how to achieve the optimal integrated, multi-disciplinary set of strategies (design, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, and renovation) necessary to manage and sustain modern public physical infrastructure assets. These include: roads and bridges / airports / ports / public utilities / water and wastewater facilities / mass transit systems / hospitals / schools / parks and recreation facilities / sports complexes. The book has been thoroughly revised to reflect the impact of built infrastructure on the environment, social concerns, new technologies and scientific developments, and the impacts of natural and man-made disasters.

  • Covers valuation of infrastructure assets, largely in response to Government Accounting Standards Requirements such as GASB34 in the United States, PSAB3150 in Canada, and similar standards in Australia
  • Addresses the adverse environmental impacts of deteriorating air quality, GHG emissions, excessive noise, and available mitigation strategies
  • Includes specific approaches to sustainability including green methodologies, resource conservation, re-use of materials, renewable energy
  • Financing models for publicly owned infrastructure and for public-private-partnerships (P3s)
  • Addresses online infrastructure (data access, mobile apps, cloud computing) and how these infrastructure services are assessed and provided
  • Adds new and/or updated methodologies on performance measures related to sustainability, security, level of service provisions, safety, institutional effectiveness, preservation of assets and investments, technologies for in-service monitoring, data analysis, prioritization, and decision support and knowledge management

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Foreword
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition

Part 1 : The Challenge of Managing Infrastructure
Chapter 1 :
The Big Picture
Chapter 2 : Framework for Infrastructure Asset Management
Chapter 3 : Planning, Needs Assessment, and Performance Indicators

Part 2 : Information Management and Decision Support Systems
Chapter 4 :
Database Management, Data Needs, Analysis
Chapter 5 : Inventory, Historical, and Environmental Data
Chapter 6 : In-Service Monitoring and Evaluation Data
Chapter 7 : Uses of Monitoring Data and Examples of In-Service Evaluation
Chapter 8 : Performance Modeling and Failure Analysis

Part 3 : Concepts of Total Quality Management
Chapter 9 :
Design for Infrastructure Service Life
Chapter 10 : Construction
Chapter 11 : Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Strategies, Including Operations
Chapter 12 : Dealing with New or Alternate Concepts

Part 4 : Economics, Life-Cycle Analysis, and M,R&R Programming
Chapter 13 :
Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Policies and Treatment Alternatives
Chapter 14 : Life-Cycle Cost and Benefit Analysis
Chapter 15 : Prioritization, Optimization, and Work Programs

Part 5 : IAMS Development and Implementation, Examples
Chapter 16 :
Concept of Integrated Infrastructure Asset Management Systems
Chapter 17 : Visual IMS : An Illustrative Infrastructure Management System and Applications
Chapter 18 : Available Asset Management System and Commercial Off-the-Shelf Providers
Chapter 19 : Benefits of Implementing an AMS
Chapter 20 : Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship, and Asset Management
Chapter 21 : Future Directions for Infrastructure Asset Management

Index