Advanced Asset Management Practices for Water and Wastewater Utilities
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Fee
- $1,495
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
Discounts
TEAM2 Discount: When two people sign up from the same employer, your course fee is $1395.
TEAM3 Discount: When three or more sign up from the same employer, your course fee is $1345.
ID
RA01294-D261
Credits
- CEU: 1.5
- PDH: 15
Schedule
- 4/30/2024 09:00am - 05:00pm
- 5/1/2024 09:00am - 05:00pm
- 5/2/2024 09:00am - 12:00pm
All times times listed are Central Time Zone.
Course Notes
This is a HyFlex (in-person and online) taught course. Your registration is for one teaching platform only: in-person or online. Please be prepared to attend all days either in-person or online.
ALL students should obtain a UW NetID. Please access the Canvas platform once you receive your NetID. If you use a workplace computer or laptop you may not have administrative access to our website. Please check if you can access it before the first day of class. Check with your IT Dept to gain access or use a private computer.
A link to access the course materials and the webinar platform will be provided to all students a few days before the course. Please watch the email address you provide during registration for release dates and pre-course information. Please watch for Canvas announcements about pre-course work.
Contact us if you have questions or cannot access the Canvas course website with your NetID.
In-person students: a laptop is not required but recommended for this course.
Instructors
Seth McClure, Gage Muckleroy, Mert Muftugil
Location
Accommodations
Room: rates start at $155
Group Code: Use reservation link below.
Reserve by: Mar. 29, 2024
Topic:
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
Course Overview
In this course, you will learn to apply asset management principles, strategies, and state-of-the-art practices from across the U.S. Case studies and examples will also be presented.
You will learn how to:
- Strengthen the asset reinvestment decision
- Determine the end of asset life
- Develop asset registers
- Work with horizontal and vertical asset systems
- Establish strategic levels of service
- Understand service life, physical life, and economic life,
- Use condition assessment data
- Apply survivor analysis and risk zones
- Manage business risk exposure
- Understand the probability of and avoid the consequences of failures
- Apply the new ISO 55000 asset management standard
Who Should Attend?
- Water and wastewater managers, directors, and commissioners
- Current and upcoming utility leaders
- Federal agencies and military bases
- Financial officers and capital program managers
- Regulators
- Consultants
Course Outline
Overview of Asset Management
- Discussion of participant objectives
- Asset management principles and fundamentals
Asset Registers
- Asset data considerations
- Inventories, hierarchies, and registers
- Gathering and assembling the data - how to get started
- Class exercise
Asset Condition and Remaining Life
- Determining asset condition scores
- Typical failure modes
- Asset physical effective life and remaining life
- Class exercise
Levels of Service
- Internal and external level of service targets
- Triple bottom line LOS statements
- Key performance indicators
- Balancing future demand with current capabilities
Risk as a Component in Asset Management Decision Making
- Implementing a risk framework
- Business risk exposure
- Probability of failure x consequences of failure
- Class exercise
Case Studies in Asset Management
- Examples of larger and smaller utilities
- Water, wastewater, and combined utilities
The Reinvestment Decision: Business Case Evaluation
- Life cycle cost analysis
- Risk reduction
- Strategic level – how many assets will fail
- Tactical level – which assets will fail
- Class exercises
Asset Management Plans and Risk Mitigation
- Putting it all together
- The role of redundancy
- Defining tolerable risk
- Decision-making tools
- Class exercise
Testimonials
"Awesome information, very engaging, loved the real-life examples."
"Excellent balance of interactive workshops combined with world class instruction."
"Comprehensive real life examples."
"Workshops and class exercises were great!"
"Will immediately use the ideas from this course at my job."
"Great guidance on how to use the date to make decisions."
"This course is absolutely worth the investment! It forces you to think differently in many areas."
"New and experienced asset managers will benefit very much from this material."
Instructors
Gage Muckleroy
Gage Muckleroy, PE, BCEE is a Principal Asset Management Consultant with GHD with more than 32 years of experience in the fields of civil engineering and utility asset management (AM) for water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure. Gage has extensive experience in AM strategy development and implementing AM programs for a wide variety of organizations. Based in Bowie, MD, Gage is nationally recognized in the field of AM and has led many of GHD’s largest AM projects in the United States.
Seth McClure
Seth McClure, PE has been actively involved with Asset Management for eight years, first as the Asset Manager at the Madison Water Utility, and most recently as supervisor for asset management programs at the Madison Metro Sewerage District. More recently, Seth has shifted his focus from engineering and asset management to issues surrounding the governance of utilities, strategic planning, and leadership development. Seth is currently the Strategic Planning and Policy Advisor for MMSD. A former high school teacher, freelance writer, and carpenter, Seth is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Mert Muftugil
Mert Muftugil, PE, practiced Asset Management (AM) in the water space for 12 years in the private sector. Afterwards, Mert joined Portland Water Bureau (PWB) in 2019 to work in the AM Branch. Mert’s career has focused on teaching and applying both fundamental and advanced AM concepts in the water and wastewater space, as well as performing gap assessments. Mert is currently the Supervising Engineer for the Portland Water Bureau’s AM Branch and aims to maintain and improve the practical applications of AM framework for PWB’s assets. Mert is also an active member of the AWWA’s Asset Management Committee and Maintenance & Reliability Subcommittee.
Advanced Asset Management Practices for Water and Wastewater Utilities
Location: Madison, WI or Live Online
Course #: RA01294-D261
Fee: $1,495
Fee
- $1,495
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
Discounts
TEAM2 Discount: When two people sign up from the same employer, your course fee is $1395.
TEAM3 Discount: When three or more sign up from the same employer, your course fee is $1345.
Credits
- CEU: 1.5
- PDH: 15
Schedule
- 4/30/2024 09:00am - 05:00pm
- 5/1/2024 09:00am - 05:00pm
- 5/2/2024 09:00am - 12:00pm
All times times listed are Central Time Zone.
Course Notes
This is a HyFlex (in-person and online) taught course. Your registration is for one teaching platform only: in-person or online. Please be prepared to attend all days either in-person or online.
ALL students should obtain a UW NetID. Please access the Canvas platform once you receive your NetID. If you use a workplace computer or laptop you may not have administrative access to our website. Please check if you can access it before the first day of class. Check with your IT Dept to gain access or use a private computer.
A link to access the course materials and the webinar platform will be provided to all students a few days before the course. Please watch the email address you provide during registration for release dates and pre-course information. Please watch for Canvas announcements about pre-course work.
Contact us if you have questions or cannot access the Canvas course website with your NetID.
In-person students: a laptop is not required but recommended for this course.
Instructors
Seth McClure, Gage Muckleroy, Mert Muftugil
Location
Accommodations
Room: rates start at $155
Group Code: Use reservation link below.
Reserve by: Mar. 29, 2024
Topic:
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
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