Practical guidance for building and using a strategic asset management program.
Plain-language notes for utility directors, finance staff, boards, and the engineers who work alongside them, focused on the plans and registers that hold an asset management program together.
What a Strategic Asset Management Plan Actually Needs to Contain
A practical breakdown of the core components a SAMP needs, without the boilerplate padding that makes plans hard to use.
Asset Registers & DataBuilding an Asset Register From What You Already Have
How to turn partial GIS layers, spreadsheets, and paper records into one structured, usable asset register.
Risk & Levels of ServiceSetting Levels of Service Your Utility Can Actually Defend
A practical approach to defining service levels that hold up in front of a board, not just on paper.
Strategic Asset Management PlansSAMP vs. CIP: How Strategic Plans and Capital Plans Fit Together
Where a strategic asset management plan ends and a capital improvement plan begins, and why utilities often blur the two.
Capital PlanningFive Questions Every Utility Should Answer Before Building Its CIP
Questions worth answering before the first project ever makes it onto a capital improvement plan.
Funding ReadinessHow to Prepare Asset Data for Infrastructure Funding Applications
What organized, well-documented asset information typically needs to look like before an application goes out.
Utility-Engineer CollaborationHow Utilities and Consulting Engineers Can Work Without Creating Duplicate Data
Why disconnected copies of the same information happen, and practical ways to avoid them.
Asset Registers & DataThe Difference Between an Asset List and an Asset Register
Why a spreadsheet of asset names isn't the same thing as a register that can support risk and investment decisions.
Asset Management FoundationsWhat Elected Officials Need to Understand About Deferred Utility Investment
A plain explanation of what happens, over time, when infrastructure investment is postponed.
Coming soon.
As engagements with utility partners are completed, case studies from actual strategic asset management plans and asset register builds will be published here.
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