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1 Sep Asset Resilience In Practice: A Case Study on Environmental Containment

Posted at 10:07 in Flood Resilience, Resilience

In this article I’ll be talking you through one of our projects – this time concerning an NHS clinic in Oxfordshire. As you can see from the images below, this particular site housed an un-bunded heating oil tank. While technically a double skinned tank that did not require bunding according to the relevant legislation, the […]

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16 Jun How To Tackle The Dangers of Uneven Water Spend Cycles

Posted at 7:59 in Resilience

One potential drawback of regulated investment cycles is that spending profiles are often uneven, placing ‘feast and famine‘ stresses on supply chains that are often operating on lean resources determined through competitive tendering for ‘mouth watering’ programmes of work. As the water industry enters Year 3 of the current Asset Management Period (AMP) and attention […]

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30 May How Scientific Advances Can Help Water Companies Meet AMP6 Targets

Posted at 13:46 in Resilience

In my past couple of articles I’ve been focussing almost exclusively on the critical role Totex and asset resilience both play in delivering against and outperforming ODIs for AMP6. While I cannot overstate how important these are to meeting targets and maximising future budgets for the next Asset Management Period (AMP), I’m also aware that […]

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16 May Why Pollution Fines Should Be a Turning Point For Water Companies

Posted at 13:27 in Resilience

Under investment and a lack of resilience have always posed a risk to the assets and infrastructure that utilities rely on to deliver their services effectively. However, despite AMP6’s focus on customers (which is essentially a euphemism for serviceability and reliability), there is no shortage of instances where water companies are failing to maintain critical […]

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16 May Drip, Drip, Drip: The Cost of Doing Nothing

Posted at 12:45 in Resilience

As environmental risks and technological advances continue to shape the way organisations protect critical infrastructure, it’s no longer a secret that in today’s climate, a passive approach to resilience and protecting key assets isn’t a viable or cost effective option. This is because the costs of doing nothing have never been higher, especially for utilities […]

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Water pollution in river

12 Apr Why Pollution Fines Should Be a Turning Point For Water Companies

Posted at 11:20 in Resilience

Under investment and a lack of resilience have always posed a risk to the assets and infrastructure that utilities rely on to deliver their services effectively. However, despite AMP6’s focus on customers (which is essentially a euphemism for serviceability and reliability), there is no shortage of instances where water companies are failing to maintain critical […]

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3 Mar Why Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) Is Key In The Defence Sector

Posted at 10:20 in Resilience

From the extensive damage to the Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway, to the UK’s vulnerability to flooding incidents, the past few years have provided us all with countless reminders of just how important PPM is to resilience. However, as important as PPM is in addressing infrastructural weakness and vulnerable assets, the dangers presented through poor maintenance […]

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valuing assets

2 Feb Valuing Assets in a Time of Regulatory, Environmental and Economic Uncertainty

Posted at 15:55 in Resilience

Uncertainty has always had a role to play in the business world. Take a look at any financial market and you’ll see that peaks and troughs are just as natural, necessary and inevitable as the fall of any seemingly untouchable empire throughout history. However, even with this in mind, it is clear that we’re living […]

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3 Jan How UK Wide Learning Is Changing the Effectiveness of PPM

Posted at 9:49 in Flood Resilience, Resilience

Recently I’ve been focusing much of my attention on the UK’s rather alarming vulnerabilities to climate change, flooding and other environmental risks. I have also been very vocal about the key role I feel data should play in our reactions to these growing risks, as well as a much-needed rethink of our current efforts to […]

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IoT enabled mobile phone

20 Oct Using IoT To Counter Evolving Business Risk

Posted at 15:39 in Resilience

Last month I found some interesting research by PwC that explored the role of data in decision making and how this varies within specific industries. Surprisingly, the research found insurance and asset management to be at either sides of the spectrum, despite their reliance on accurately predicting and identifying risk. Even more surprising was the […]

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