Water Asset Management International 1.4 (2005) 25-28

Integrating sustainability into asset management programmes: life cycle costing using whole system design and the ecological footprint

Priscilla Bloomfield, Steve McDonald

Carollo Engineers
USA

Effective asset management is about ensuring that service levels are met, risks minimised, and costs optimised. A critical aspect of asset management is that future, not only current, requirements are anticipated and planned for. In other words, the concept of sustainability is integral to long-term asset management thinking. This paper focuses on the sustainability aspects of asset management, and considers some of the ways in which leading-edge industrial ecology theory and practices can be applied to asset management, in order to achieve goals of sustainable standards of service and maximum efficiency.

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