Asset Aggregation

Asset Aggregation: Structuring condition data for decision-making

Yazan, Ahmet (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences)

Hertogh, M.J.C.M. (graduation committee)
van den Boomen, M. (mentor)
de Bruijne, M.L.C. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineering

2020-04-02

One of the many challenges in infrastructure management lies in managing built assets. Managing means repairing, rehabilitating and replacing assets to ensure they are able to safely fulfill their functions. To manage infrastructure assets, detailed information about the condition of all components of the asset is required to make substantiated decisions. Assets are composed of several elements and components. Individual component condition reports represent the condition found during visual inspection. The challenge for infrastructure asset managers is how to convert data about component inspections into useful information which are aggregated to make sounds decisions on the maintenance of assets in systems. Useful data that provides information about the condition of assets in systems, which are used to support budget allocation and to prioritize maintenance, is scarce. Information may be lacking, may be incomplete, may be unorganized or may need to be deciphered before it becomes useful in decision making. Furthermore, this data would be unhelpful statistics if one does not know how to apply this information to identify problems and create solutions. At a system level, infrastructure managers need to prioritize maintenance and allocate scarce resources.

Asset Management
Aggregation
Condition
Infrastructure
Data
Maintenance
Decision-making

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Student theses

master thesis

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