The annals of human history have recorded a lot of natural disasters which prompted infrastructure decision support in some countries. In the most recent years, man has experienced natural calamities worldwide – hurricanes Sandy and Katrina in the US, earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, and typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, to name a few. These […]
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Infrastructure Asset Management Myths Busted
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 […]
Important Infrastructure Management Lessons from the Dakota Access Pipeline Issue
It was in May 2014 when the Dakota Access Pipeline project was first announced. Two years after, the multi-billion-dollar project by Energy Transfer Partners or ETP started the construction after getting 200 permits to build at various water crossings, which was granted by the Army Corps of Engineers. That was what the Standing Rock Sioux […]
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 […]