How to Define the Condition of an Infrastructure for Different Asset Management Purposes?

Author

Äijö, Juha ; Altamirano, Mónica ; Weijnen, Margot

Author_Institution

Ramboll Finland Oy, Espoo

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

8-11 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

2629

Lastpage

2633

Abstract

Many countries are implementing systems to assess the condition of their critical infrastructures. These systems serve as basis to take more informed and integrated decisions and to clarify priorities. Examples of these systems are different Asset Management Systems, the "Report Card for America\´s Infrastructure" in the USA and "The State of the Nation" project in England. In all of these systems a grade is given per infrastructure to express the general condition of the structure. The present paper aims to review the condition monitoring sources used in this process of assessment. Some of these sources are real technical measurements, and "estimations" informed by panels of experts. The initiatives of three countries; USA, England and Finland will be presented in the paper.

Keywords

condition monitoring; decision making; structural engineering computing; America infrastructure; asset management system; condition monitoring source; critical infrastructure; report card; Asset management; Condition monitoring; Cybernetics; Electronic mail; Modems; Pipelines; Project management; Roads; Technology management; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2006. SMC '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0099-6

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0100-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2006.385260

Filename

4274266