THT301 Asset Management for Urban Water Infrastructure

The course aims to provide effective tools for urban water infrastructure management by utilizing asset management strategies to conduct low-cost and low-risk approaches for repairs, rehabilitation, or replacement of assets. Topics covered include:

• Introduction to asset management in water and wastewater utilities
• Risk and reliability analysis techniques
• Cost-benefit analysis in asset management
• Deterioration (condition) modelling for water pipelines using physical and statistical models
• Leakage detection and management methods
• AI-based models for pipe failure prediction models
• Rehabilitation planning methods such as multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM), risk-based, optimization and machine learning approaches
• Case studies

Upon completion, students should be able to:

• Identify how to use asset management tools to prepare strategies to sustain water infrastructure systems.
• Develop an integrated asset management framework for a water system.
• Conduct risk and reliability assessment in urban water and wastewater systems.
• Apply different methods and modelling tools in solving practical asset management problems and rehabilitation planning in different urban water systems such as water distribution and drainage networks.
• Use cost-benefit analysis to determine the most effective maintenance and rehabilitation strategies.
• Recommend suitable modelling approaches for practical problems and appraise the recent developments in the field of asset management of urban water infrastructure.