What is asset management and what is it not? The concept of infrastructure asset management has existed long enough that some of us now fall into the trap of confusing it with something else. As the late US President John F. Kennedy puts it, the great enemy of the truth is very often not the […]
INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT
The Aging US Infrastructure and What Clinton and Trump Plan to Do with Them
If there is one thing that the US voters can thank for, it’s the fact that both presidential candidates this coming November election have expressed support to fixing the United States of America’s aging infrastructure. The US investing on infrastructure is equivalent to the US investing in itself – for the country’s self-growth and […]
West Virginia Needs Stormwater Infrastructure Funding Now
More than two months after a flash flood killed at least 24 people and devastated more or less 1,200 homes, West Virginia is now seeing the harrowing effects of cutting back budgets on infrastructure and the slow efforts on rehabilitation and replacement of decaying public utilities. Flooding has become common in the mountainous counties of […]