Asset Management
For whom?
Engineers and managers of organizations involved in water, wastewater, drainage and flood management in cities. However, this course assumes very little as pre-requisites, so, if you are from another discipline, but interested in the content, you are welcome to apply.
Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 13 February 2017
End: 03 March 2017
Deadline IHE application: 13 January 2017 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850
Learning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Explain the historical processes that made asset management approach important for urban infrastructure engineers and managers and describe the drivers (e.g. climate variability/change, urbanization, increasing poverty, etc...) that make asset management crucial for sustainable provision of water related infrastructure services;
- Define asset management in your own words and List and describe the essential steps of an asset management plan and provide example problems from one's own experience (professional or personal) 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.
- Explain the use of data storage and analysis techniques (databases, data-driven modelling techniques) in Asset Management.
- Create Risk-based renewal plans based on the analysis of significance and condition of asset components and 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.
Water systems in the developing world are often not equipped to formulate sound maintenance plans, backed by state-of-the-art knowledge and tools. This lack of capacity renders the enormous investments on water infrastructure, mobilized by, among other initiatives, the SDGs, to be unsustainable. Asset management (1) is an essential component in the maintenance and improvement of services in water systems including utilities, irrigation systems and flood protection and water management infrastructure.
It requires the identification of most critical components of networks, life-cycle cost analysis and minimizing negative impacts of (inevitable) failures. This approach is vitally important for the urban centres of the South, as performance demands increasing with population at a phenomenal rate. This three week course exposes you to the principles and the state-of-the-art practice of Asset Management.
(1) Asset Management: The practice of managing the entire life cycle (creation, maintenance, renewal, expansion, full/partial decommissioning) of a physical system that delivers some service(s).
Lecturers
- Assela Pathirana, PhD
Associate Professor of Integrated Urban Water Cycle Management, UNESCO-IHE
- Yehuda Kleiner, PhD
Senior Reseach Officer & Leader of buried Utilities Research Group
National Research Council of Canada
- Geert Jan van Heck, MSc
Asset Manager, Drinking Water Division
Waternet, Amsterdam
- Paul Sayers, Sayers and Partners
Associate Adviser to WWF-UK (on flood and drought issues),
SeniorResearch Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford - member of the Oxford Water Security Network.
- William Veerbeek, MSc
Project coordinator, UNESCO-IHE
- Berry Gersonius, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Urban Flood Resilience, UNESCO-IHE