Infrastructure Asset Management Challenges and Understanding the Complexity and Uncertainty

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dc.contributor.advisorKattan, Lina
dc.contributor.authorZhong, Wanyong
dc.contributor.committeememberCowe Falls, Lynne
dc.contributor.committeememberJergeas, George
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-04T17:21:24Z
dc.date.available2016-10-04T17:21:24Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016en
dc.description.abstractAging public infrastructure asset requires new solutions to address the associated risks in terms of potential failure and poor environmental compliance. Two issues are paramount in looking at the aging infrastructure asset that Calgary Fire Department manages: what is the present condition and how to optimally allocate public funds for its asset needs, specifically preventive maintenance. Asset owners must allocate such limited budgets among competing alternatives, which makes the situation challenging. Among the competing alternatives, preventive maintenance has presented a series of challenges to asset stewards for public infrastructure asset management, especially within municipal government. For Calgary Fire Department (CFD), asset management professionals from Infrastructure Planning and other divisions have made a significant progress in order to achieve "the best possible service", such as Star Quality Rating, risk register, option analysis, existing station retro-commissioning, and Asset Management Plan etc. However, CFD is no exception as other Business Units within The City of Calgary: there are several obstacles stand in the way for asset management practice, specifically capital preventive maintenance expenditures. Nonetheless, with the Five-Step process: Education, Challenge, Environment, Strategy, Delivery (Carroll et al., 2004), there is a great potential to overcome such obstacles.en_US
dc.identifier.citationZhong, W. (2016). Infrastructure Asset Management Challenges and Understanding the Complexity and Uncertainty (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26530en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/26530
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/3384
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectEngineering
dc.subjectEngineering--Civil
dc.subject.classificationAsset Managementen_US
dc.titleInfrastructure Asset Management Challenges and Understanding the Complexity and Uncertainty
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCivil Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Engineering (MEng)
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