Infrastructure Asset Management: Historic and Future Perspective for Tools, Risk Assessment, and Digitalization for Competence Building

This article aims at analyzing the historic development of infrastructure asset management (IAM) resulting from increase challenges over time. Furthermore, it suggesting corresponding requirements for enrichment educational programs to provide decision makers tomorrow with right competences. The evolution IAM is here described as characterized by three periods introducing an increased complexity analysis and thereby, a more powerful system urban water management: (a) Data collection computerized information systems including statistical methods management; (b) application risk sources hazards their consequences; (c) introduction holistic sustainable perspective governance, social economic aspects (circular economy), environmental impacts, condition physical assets digital systems. A variety competencies are needed obtain safe systems, in particular provision services medium- large-scale cities. Similar other infrastructures, like buildings, roads railroads, IT elements sustainability assessment digitalization should be incorporated master civil engineering world-wide. paper not designed scientific paper, but inspirational practitioners enriched technical universities.