Facilities Management (FM) at airports involves the use of systems such as Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS). Currently, the integration of BIM with CMMS is yet to reach maturity, resulting in the inability to reuse BIM data produced prior to the operations and maintenance phase. The lack of accurate and untimely handover of equipment data contributes to failed CMMS programs. The studied airport had a low CMMS utilization resulting from a lack of equipment data from recent and old construction projects and lacked an efficient process for acquiring, storing, and exchanging asset data from construction into its CMMS. To address this, the airport sought for solutions to reuse BIM data in the CMMS. Utilizing a Design Science Research (DSR) methodology, this research proposed and tested a solution technology innovation comprising a BIM-FM integration framework and structured workflow based on BIM and COBie for FM data delivery into a CMMS. The proposed solution was tested on a real-world project at the airport: showing efficacy to provide the required equipment data in a timely and accurate manner as compared to the existing practice. The study provides practical evidence of application of BIM and COBie in FM data delivery from a handover perspective.
{"title":"BIM for airport Facility Management (FM): The case of a US International Airport","authors":"Kofi A. B. Asare, R. Liu, C. Anumba","doi":"10.1680/jinam.22.00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.22.00019","url":null,"abstract":"Facilities Management (FM) at airports involves the use of systems such as Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS). Currently, the integration of BIM with CMMS is yet to reach maturity, resulting in the inability to reuse BIM data produced prior to the operations and maintenance phase. The lack of accurate and untimely handover of equipment data contributes to failed CMMS programs. The studied airport had a low CMMS utilization resulting from a lack of equipment data from recent and old construction projects and lacked an efficient process for acquiring, storing, and exchanging asset data from construction into its CMMS. To address this, the airport sought for solutions to reuse BIM data in the CMMS. Utilizing a Design Science Research (DSR) methodology, this research proposed and tested a solution technology innovation comprising a BIM-FM integration framework and structured workflow based on BIM and COBie for FM data delivery into a CMMS. The proposed solution was tested on a real-world project at the airport: showing efficacy to provide the required equipment data in a timely and accurate manner as compared to the existing practice. The study provides practical evidence of application of BIM and COBie in FM data delivery from a handover perspective.","PeriodicalId":43387,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Asset Management","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85360977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1680/jinam.2023.10.1.52
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Organisations manage assets to provide services to various customers effectively and efficiently through the development of a comprehensive asset management system. The asset management strategy is a core component of an asset management system that is defined from a different perspective in the area of asset management. An explicit definition will make it easy to comprehend, develop and implement. The development and implementation of an effective asset management strategy play a vital role in formulating a long-term capital works programme as part of capital investment planning. How to develop and implement the strategy to create an effective capital works programme is the main research question. This paper defines the asset management strategy at three levels and develops and implements the strategy to create the capital works programme for roads using a case study approach following a six-step methodology.
{"title":"Develop and implement asset management strategy to create capital works programme for roads","authors":"Jehan Zeb","doi":"10.1680/jinam.21.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.21.00020","url":null,"abstract":"Organisations manage assets to provide services to various customers effectively and efficiently through the development of a comprehensive asset management system. The asset management strategy is a core component of an asset management system that is defined from a different perspective in the area of asset management. An explicit definition will make it easy to comprehend, develop and implement. The development and implementation of an effective asset management strategy play a vital role in formulating a long-term capital works programme as part of capital investment planning. How to develop and implement the strategy to create an effective capital works programme is the main research question. This paper defines the asset management strategy at three levels and develops and implements the strategy to create the capital works programme for roads using a case study approach following a six-step methodology.","PeriodicalId":43387,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Asset Management","volume":"687 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135742641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Norayr Badasyan, Ansgar Bendiek, Joachim von Lukowicz
Water is one of the most important elements of life and there is no alternative for human beings. Faced with limited water and financial resources, public policy makers are trying to find new ways of providing the society with an appropriate quality of water by attracting private investors. This paper attempts to answer the question on how water sector projects can be developed with private investments to deliver the desired economic and social benefits to society. From this perspective, the paper sets the objective of designing a cost-benefit analysis framework that compares the possible deployment models, analyses the optimal solutions that achieve both optimal economic and financial outcomes and can be instrumental in decision making for water sector projects. As a result, the level of Economic Internal Rate of Return (EIRR) for public decision makers and Financial Internal Rate of Return (FIRR) for private investors are examined.
{"title":"Economic and financial aspects of drinking water supply: a project development guideline","authors":"Norayr Badasyan, Ansgar Bendiek, Joachim von Lukowicz","doi":"10.1680/jinam.22.00032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.22.00032","url":null,"abstract":"Water is one of the most important elements of life and there is no alternative for human beings. Faced with limited water and financial resources, public policy makers are trying to find new ways of providing the society with an appropriate quality of water by attracting private investors. This paper attempts to answer the question on how water sector projects can be developed with private investments to deliver the desired economic and social benefits to society. From this perspective, the paper sets the objective of designing a cost-benefit analysis framework that compares the possible deployment models, analyses the optimal solutions that achieve both optimal economic and financial outcomes and can be instrumental in decision making for water sector projects. As a result, the level of Economic Internal Rate of Return (EIRR) for public decision makers and Financial Internal Rate of Return (FIRR) for private investors are examined.","PeriodicalId":43387,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Asset Management","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75010166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Safety management is a highly crucial process implemented in offshore structures for meeting safety criteria by eliminating potential risks. Accordingly, safety indicators are utilized to monitor the systems and assess the safety performance by meeting SMARTER criteria. Partly, the historical development of the reliability and risk assessment methods are extensively discussed along with their advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, this paper focuses on the review of safety management processes and their elements including safety indicators as well as discusses the process of optimizing maintenance strategies using reliability and risk assessment approaches for offshore structures. The paper’s results showed that utilizing SMARTER criteria for monitoring and evaluating the safety performance of offshore structures produced the most adequate safety system. For instance, the safety performance evaluation framework displayed functionality for benchmarking and constant enhancement of the Malaysian offshore oil and gas platforms through conducting a comparison between 14 safety factors using a scoring system in order to fully determine the mechanisms and interactions of the factors with the safety performance. Lastly, safety performance is established as a reference for the improvement of safety practices in offshore structures where the risk indicator system can provide a scientific benchmark for risk mitigation and investment decisions.
{"title":"Safety management of offshore structures: overview","authors":"Ausamah Al Houri, K. Sadeghi","doi":"10.1680/jinam.22.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.22.00020","url":null,"abstract":"Safety management is a highly crucial process implemented in offshore structures for meeting safety criteria by eliminating potential risks. Accordingly, safety indicators are utilized to monitor the systems and assess the safety performance by meeting SMARTER criteria. Partly, the historical development of the reliability and risk assessment methods are extensively discussed along with their advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, this paper focuses on the review of safety management processes and their elements including safety indicators as well as discusses the process of optimizing maintenance strategies using reliability and risk assessment approaches for offshore structures. The paper’s results showed that utilizing SMARTER criteria for monitoring and evaluating the safety performance of offshore structures produced the most adequate safety system. For instance, the safety performance evaluation framework displayed functionality for benchmarking and constant enhancement of the Malaysian offshore oil and gas platforms through conducting a comparison between 14 safety factors using a scoring system in order to fully determine the mechanisms and interactions of the factors with the safety performance. Lastly, safety performance is established as a reference for the improvement of safety practices in offshore structures where the risk indicator system can provide a scientific benchmark for risk mitigation and investment decisions.","PeriodicalId":43387,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Asset Management","volume":"107 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86253660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Treatment of arsenic–contaminated shallow groundwater upon extraction has become imperative to provide safe drinking water in remote villages in West Bengal, India. Arsenic Removal Plants (ARPs) stabilizing arsenic–rich wastewater ‘in–situ’, though save valuable time and money, require high technical expertise for operation and maintenance, which is difficult to facilitate in rural communities lacking necessary infrastructural support. Contrarily, Arsenic Removal Units (ARUs) have been widely accepted by the society for their user–friendliness. But, most of them produce high volume of hazardous sludge, safe commercial reuse of which can be done by ‘ex–situ’ stabilization with clay–bricks. Based on number of ARPs and ARUs needed to mitigate the households seeking remedy, a cost–benefit analysis of the remediation and waste management aspects is performed via system dynamics modeling. For a major arsenic–affected district of the state, simulation results suggest that in lieu of ARPs, installation of ARUs is deemed to be financially sustainable for at least 15 years from now, if the arsenic–laden bricks are sold at a price 20% higher than normal. Future projections of groundwater draft and stress in the region commensurately certify the economic and environmental sustainability of the arsenic remediation.
{"title":"Sustainability appraisal of arsenic mitigation policy innovations in West Bengal, India","authors":"Soumyajit Koley","doi":"10.1680/jinam.21.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.21.00021","url":null,"abstract":"Treatment of arsenic–contaminated shallow groundwater upon extraction has become imperative to provide safe drinking water in remote villages in West Bengal, India. Arsenic Removal Plants (ARPs) stabilizing arsenic–rich wastewater ‘in–situ’, though save valuable time and money, require high technical expertise for operation and maintenance, which is difficult to facilitate in rural communities lacking necessary infrastructural support. Contrarily, Arsenic Removal Units (ARUs) have been widely accepted by the society for their user–friendliness. But, most of them produce high volume of hazardous sludge, safe commercial reuse of which can be done by ‘ex–situ’ stabilization with clay–bricks. Based on number of ARPs and ARUs needed to mitigate the households seeking remedy, a cost–benefit analysis of the remediation and waste management aspects is performed via system dynamics modeling. For a major arsenic–affected district of the state, simulation results suggest that in lieu of ARPs, installation of ARUs is deemed to be financially sustainable for at least 15 years from now, if the arsenic–laden bricks are sold at a price 20% higher than normal. Future projections of groundwater draft and stress in the region commensurately certify the economic and environmental sustainability of the arsenic remediation.","PeriodicalId":43387,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Asset Management","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84231068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developing countries, such as South Africa, have no choice but to look at innovative and/or alternative approaches, such as public–private partnerships (PPP) as investment models, to ensure that they eliminate their water infrastructure backlogs. The primary objectives for the research were: (i) to develop a PPP framework; (ii) the identification of PPP investment models for water infrastructure; and (iii) to determine key categories, criteria, and characteristics for cost-effective PPP investment models to ensure the sustainability of the water infrastructure value chain in South Africa. The framework for PPPs identified five broad categories of investment models for water infrastructure value chain in South Africa. The research results highlight the aspects of PPP in addressing i) water infrastructure needs; ii) implementation strategy for water infrastructure projects; iii) investment policies; and iv) for the eradication of water infrastructure backlogs. The total investment estimates in the past 20-year period (1998/1999 – 2019/20) have been ca. US$48.36 billion with the public sector contributed ca. US$44.32 billion (91.64%) and the private sector only US$4.04 billion (8.36%). Furthermore, the analysis exemplified that ca. US$2.75 billion/annum is available based on the current financial arrangements leaving a finance gap of US$2.83 billion/annum in the water infrastructure value chain.
{"title":"Public-private partnerships as investment models for water infrastructure in South Africa","authors":"C. Ruiters, Joe Amadi-Echendu","doi":"10.1680/jinam.21.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.21.00013","url":null,"abstract":"Developing countries, such as South Africa, have no choice but to look at innovative and/or alternative approaches, such as public–private partnerships (PPP) as investment models, to ensure that they eliminate their water infrastructure backlogs. The primary objectives for the research were: (i) to develop a PPP framework; (ii) the identification of PPP investment models for water infrastructure; and (iii) to determine key categories, criteria, and characteristics for cost-effective PPP investment models to ensure the sustainability of the water infrastructure value chain in South Africa. The framework for PPPs identified five broad categories of investment models for water infrastructure value chain in South Africa. The research results highlight the aspects of PPP in addressing i) water infrastructure needs; ii) implementation strategy for water infrastructure projects; iii) investment policies; and iv) for the eradication of water infrastructure backlogs. The total investment estimates in the past 20-year period (1998/1999 – 2019/20) have been ca. US$48.36 billion with the public sector contributed ca. US$44.32 billion (91.64%) and the private sector only US$4.04 billion (8.36%). Furthermore, the analysis exemplified that ca. US$2.75 billion/annum is available based on the current financial arrangements leaving a finance gap of US$2.83 billion/annum in the water infrastructure value chain.","PeriodicalId":43387,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Asset Management","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73023988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1680/jinam.2022.9.3.112
G. Foliente
{"title":"Editorial: Towards a systems view of infrastructure: a critical need, a massive gap","authors":"G. Foliente","doi":"10.1680/jinam.2022.9.3.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.2022.9.3.112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43387,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Asset Management","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87437309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pui Kay Patrick Liang, M. Burrow, M. Sasidharan, Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan, G. Ghataora
Heavy precipitation events can lead to widespread flooding and prolonged inundation of road pavement which in turn would weaken its structural performance and accelerate its deterioration. A major challenge for road authorities is to prepare a suitable and swift recovery programme to restore the road network in the event of flood-related disruptions. Furthermore, widespread damage caused by flooding and other competing needs for recovery resources imposes additional constraints. The situation is exacerbated by the uncertainty and complexity of the post-flood situation. To address this challenge, a methodology for the formulation of a strategic post-flood pavement recovery programme based on life cycle analysis is proposed in this paper. The resultant road conditions associated with the choice of work standards, the timing of implementation, as well as funding constraints were evaluated in a case study and a cost-effective recovery programme was formulated. The case study also demonstrated the use of output data to assist road administrations in strategic decision-making. This study serves as a guide for road administration to develop a post-disaster recovery programme and provides insights for further research into post-disaster management of infrastructure systems.
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