A Strategic Assessment of Infrastructure Asset-Management Modeling
Abstract
Budget constraints and scarce resources have sparked agencies to maximize efficiency when operating and maintaining aging infrastructure. For example, in 2007 Air Force civil engineers introduced a formalized approach for maintaining infrastructure, labeling it asset management in order to optimize the performance of the 139,556 infrastructure assets (facilities, runways, utility lines, and roadways) valued at $263.43 billion. Along with introducing asset management, the Air Force s senior leadership restructured civil engineer organizations and incorporated an asset-management function at all vertical levels to address such issues as a shrinking budget, deterioration of infrastructure, significant demand for infrastructure projects, and infrastructure challenges. Specifically, these leaders intended to balance resources across asset types, reduce the stock of infrastructure assets, and decrease the maintenance and repair budget all the while maintaining a constant level of service and operations. The incorporation of asset-management functions at all vertical organizational levels (unit, major command, and headquarters) emphasized planning and implementing asset-management principles in daily decision making. Air Force leaders introduced the culture change of this type of management into its organizations to handle infrastructure assets efficiently and maximize limited resources. The comprehensive framework necessary to provide guidance for asset-management business principles drove the need to restructure civil engineer units further and, under transformation, established the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. The next step calls for implementing a comprehensive asset-management framework that offers guidance for agencies with large, varying infrastructure sets and limited resources, such as the Air Force.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA589644
Entities
People
- Marie T. Harnly
- William E. Sitzabee
Organizations
- Air University