Waterway Infrastructure Asset Maintenance Management

Owners and managers of navigational or hydraulic infrastructure constantly seek to balance limited financial and other resources with the need to ensure the continued serviceability of their assets.
br>rnrnGood quality condition, serviceability and consequence of failure grading data is fundamental to the assessment and prioritisation of resources for the maintenance and repair of navigational assets. Increasingly this prioritisation is supported by computerised asset management systems.
br>rnrnThe diversity of types and usage of navigational assets, their required current and future service levels and the nature and degree of damage to which they may be exposed in differing operational environments, means that there is a need for robust and consistent approaches to the grading of these assets.
br>rnrnThis report seeks to identify international good practice by gathering input from a wide variety of waterway organisations internationally and to provide practical guidelines for the potential uses of asset grading systems.
br>rnrnThe result will be a tool to assist decision makers in prioritising investment on infrastructure maintenance and repairs and to optimise actions to give the most effective and sustainable solutions. This tool can form part of a computerised asset management system, will help to prioritise the asset maintenance and investment in waterway infrastructure throughout the world and should assist in any future development of a worldwide database.rn