Transportation for America has put the National Bridge Inventory of 604,474 bridges on line with Google Maps so you can zoom to any area in the U.S. and see which bridges are structurally deficient and the daily […]
In 2009 Blaine Leonard, of the Utah Department of Transportation and the then President-elect of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), gave the opening keynote at GITA 2009. His talk focussed on the 2009 […]
There are several business models for water distribution including investor owned, coops, regional associations, private-public partnerships and municipal. In the UK there are a small number of regulated regional investor owned water utilities like Thames […]
I have blogged on many occasions about pathological business processes for designing, building and operating and maintaining infrastructure that plague many utilities. Some of these processes don’t seem to have changed since Edison and Tesla’s […]
Last week at the GIS in the Rockies annual conference in Denver Elthron Anderson of Southgate Water and Saniation Districts gave a very insightful presentation on the evolution of asset management at a small water […]
I have blogged previously about the UK National Infrastructure Plan which plans to invest about £250 billion in the next five yrs and £ 400 billion in the 10 yrs on infrastructure including high speed […]
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in its latest Failure to Act Report on electric power in the US is projecting that current trends will lead to funding gaps in electric generation, transmission, and […]
At a recent conference in London, the National Infrastructure Plan for the UK was outlined. This is a plan to invest £ 400 billion over 10 yrs in UK infrastructure including high speed rail, energy […]