Asset Management for Urban Wastewater Pipeline Networks
Publication: Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 16, Issue 2
Abstract
Pipelines account for the lion’s share of the lifetime costs of any typical urban wastewater collection. While the deterioration of pipeline is the obvious “frontline” reason to adopt asset management practices, a more overarching driver is the need to gravitate toward sustainable development and set short- and long-term objectives encompassing economic, social, and environmental goals. Optimizing the expenses and providing the required levels of service to customers are the twin targets of wastewater utilities. Oslo Vann og Avløpsetaten—the water/wastewater utility in the Norwegian capital, considered as case study in this paper, is sprucing up its data bank, rightly realizing that a very effective information management system is the spine of asset management.
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Acknowledgments
The writers thank the personnel at the Oslo Vann og Avløpsetaten (VAV) personnel for their kind support during the course of this study and for all the data which have been used to construct the graphs in this paper.
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Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 16 • Issue 2 • June 2010
Pages: 112 - 121
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Received: Oct 8, 2008
Accepted: Mar 6, 2009
Published online: Mar 31, 2009
Published in print: Jun 2010
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