Last year about this time I blogged about the Master Municipal Construction Documents Association (MMCDA) which maintains a set of templates for tendering and contract administration for municipal infrastructure projects that is geared toward government, consultants, contractors, and owners.  The documents are appropriate for municipal works projects, both underground and street level, and have been widely adopted in British Columbia.  The MMCD have been specifically designed for use in projects that can be characterized as municipal works (underground to street level), involving unit prices for the majority of tender items, and where the laws of British Columbia apply.

The documents include MMCD Templates for AutoCad Civil 3D for construction and record drawings that provide a common CAD standard that is is expected to enable comparability and consistency of presentation across the province.  The Civil 3D template project is focused on “internal drawing structure, external drawing presentation, and post construction GIS submissions”.

Standarding Asset Data Management

At the GITA PNW conference this week Andrew Walther and Jonathan McIntyre outlined a new MMCDA project, the Asset Management Data Repository (AMDR) project, that is intended to assist local governments in meeting the requirements of PSAB 3150 (similar to GASB 34 in the US) by defining a standard data model and a process for managing as-builts from engineering design to records management.

Under PSAB 3150 municipalities are required to manage infrastructure assets under a set of standard accounting rules.  For most municipalities, existing infrastructure records are incomplete, out of date, and often not accounted for financially, according to accounting standards.  As a result of PSAB 3150, municipalities are actively engaging in developing an accurate and uptodate record of assets.

The AMDR project is designed to assist local governments in BC to adopt a standard approach for asset management including as-builts.

• Identify attributes required for financial management, condition assessment, performance monitoring, risk management and demand management, as well as replacement and renewal decision support
• Define a data model for a standardized asset management relational database, so that it can be utilized by a variety of software vendors and local governments in implementing product development and strategic information plans
• Identify best practices for the collection of infrastructure data
• Conduct a risk assessment for local government assets using BC Emergency Planning templates
• Recommend standards and processes for post construction record submissions
• Produce standardized reports, aggregated at the local, regional and provincial level, based on agencies subscribing to a standard asset management register