Optimal Groundwater Reclamation with Captial Costs
A dynamic optimal control model for groundwater remediation was extended to incorporate treatment facility capital costs. Incorporation of the capital costs had the greatest impact on...
Sharing the Risk
In infrastructure privatization, arranging financing is as much an art as a science. At a recent conference in Washington, D.C., speakers discussed the opening of the public capital markets...
Strategies for Developing Major Capital Facilities
Siting, permitting, and mitigating impacts present many challenges during the development of major capital facilities. As a result of the need for public involvement, environmental review,...
Long Range Planning for System Rehabilitation and Improvement
The Turlock Irrigation District, located in the Central Valley of California, supplies irrigation water to 150,000 acres and electricity to over 60,000 customers. The District's irrigation...
Staffing Up for a Major Program
A nine-member construction management section must pilot a $335 million, multi-project capital improvement program over the next five years. Should construction management duties automatically...
Roof Management Alternatives for Aging Launch Infrastructure
This paper describes a Roof Management System approach to better cope with aging and deteriorating infrastructure support facilities at our national spaceports. It describes facility conditions...
Capturing Capital
Over the past few years, the environmental engineering and consulting business has become capital intensive. Between 1991 and 1993, firms' incremental capital needs will total...
Water Main Rehabilitation Needs for the 1990's
Distribution systems represent the major portion of water utilities capital assets. There are growing concerns about water quality deterioration within distribution systems, and hydraulic...
Successful Planning, Funding, and Implementation of Water Resources Projects
This paper presents the methods used by Alameda County Water District to plan, fund, and implement its long term capital improvement program. Water supply and facility planning studies...
EPRI's Pumped Storage Planning and Evaluation Guide
EPRI's Pumped Storage Planning and Evaluation Guide was published in 1990. The Guide provides step-by-step procedures to: (a) evaluate pumped-storage operation in a utility...
Capital Improvements Financing and Planning After a Natural Disaster
The Pima County Wastewater Department (PCWWMD) provides collection, treatment and disposal of wastewater in metropolitan Tucson, Arizona, and various outlying areas. In October 1983, severe...
Capital Cost Modelling for Micro-Hydro Appraisal
Empirical capital cost models for mini- and micro-hydro installations have not been validated with consistent site information. This paper reviews cost modelling techniques and describes...
Stormwater Management by Utility Approach
Traditional methods of financing municipal stormwater operations and improvements through general city fund revenues has passed. A utility approach providing a continuous, uniform flow...
A Coastal Zone Management Strategy for the Sultanate of Oman
As a further response to the pressures of development, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has contracted the International Union for Conservation of nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)...
Facilities Management and Capital Planning Systems
This paper explores the purpose, role, and structure of these systems, showing how micro-computers can be exploited to improve the quality of decision making in capital planning and related...
A Strategic Approach to Planning and Financing Public Facilities
This paper presents a comprehensive, strategic approach to planning and financing public facilities by a toll road authority. Because the Authority finances projects through the sale of...
Cost Effective Transit Capital Planning
The analysis required for expansion of capital assets in public transit is complex and inter-disciplinary. Economic analysis is only one part of that overall evaluation. Thus, expansion...
Improving the Financial Basis of Transit Planning
Three examples of new transit capital management procedures are described: a Plant and Facilities Development Program and Bridge Management System for Boston's Massachusetts...
Seismic Risk Assessment for a Utility System
Presented is a procedure by which a utility could develop the probabilities for different levels of capital loss exposure for its system. The procedure relies on experience data obtained...
Business Determinants of Project Planning: An Owner's Perspective
Within a major corporation, planning of capital facilities projects is a never-ending process. It is a major element in the control of cash flow of the corporation. The major concern was...
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