Challenges and barriers to establishing infrastructure asset management

Infrastructure Asset Management of Urban Water Systems

IAM methods partially differ from those applicable to managing other types of assets. One of the reasons is the fact that such infrastructures have indefinite lives, in order to satisfy the permanent needs of a specific public service. Infrastructures are not replaceable as a whole, only piecemeal. Consequently, in a mature infrastructure, all phases of assets lifetime coex‐ ist. Additionally, ...

Tangible capital asset ontology in infrastructure management

81 Infrastructure organisations own, operate and manage infrastructure systems to provide uninterrupted services to various communities. To manage infrastructure systems (composed of a set of interrelated and interconnected tangible capital assets (TCAs)), infrastructure organisations use a range of computer and paper-based information systems. Municipal infrastructure organisations find it dif...

Nursing Challenges and Barriers to Promotion Health community: Narrative Review

Introduction: Increasing the prevalence of epidemics and epidemiology, as well as the emergence of health threats, can be controlled at preventive levels by using nurses' abilities to promote the health of individuals, families, groups, and populations in the social realm it seems necessary. Methods: A literary search between 2010- 2019 was carried out, and four international databases PubMed, ...

Challenges and Barriers to Pregnant Women\'s Nutrition: Policy Recommendations

Deteriorating Buried Infrastructure Management Challenges and Strategies

Background and Disclaimer The USEPA is revising the Total Coliform Rule (TCR) and is considering new possible distribution system requirements as part of these revisions. As part of this process, the USEPA is publishing a series of issue papers to present available information on topics relevant to possible TCR revisions. This paper was developed as part of that effort. The objectives of the is...