A Working Session Exploring Opportunities to Enhance Collaboration By Water and Wastewater Utilities in

Advancing Asset ManagementMay 5th & 6th, 2005 - Washington DC

• Session 4: Education, Communication & Professional Development Initiatives

• BAMI-I: Buried Asset Management Institute- International, Inc.

• Representative: Tom Iseley, Ph.D., P.E. President of the Board of Directors &

Acting Executive Director

BAMI-I

• February 2003: Formed BAMI in the Department of Watershed Management (DWM) of the City of Atlanta (COA) by Commissioner Jack Ravan

• Purpose: To serve as a resource to the DWM to accomplish Mayor Shirley Franklin’s Vision of moving the COA’s WATER program beyond consent decree requirements to “First-in-Class”

• July 2004: Established BAMI-International as a non-profit 501 (c) 3 Corporation.

• December 2004: First Board of Directors meeting

BAMI-I: Mission Statement

• To provide a center of excellence for owners of underground water infrastructure to join with industry and researchers, using sound science, to evaluate and/or develop buried asset management protocols for application worldwide to benefit ratepayers and other stakeholders by: – Protecting public health, – Improving the environment, – Maximizing asset life-cycle value, – Sustaining economic development, and – Enhancing the quality of life.

BAMI-I: What are you doing?

• Establishing a resource to assist utilities in “Achieving excellence in buried infrastructure sustainability – for the 21st Century

• HOW?– Get the message to political decision makers & public– Develop educational programs– Develop O&M and pipe rehab. training in-house– Develop North American Technology Benchmarking

Program– Conducting assessment of utilities to assist with

establishing a national direction for implementing AM programs for buried infrastructure

– Coordinating with other associations and researchers

BAMI-I: What are you doing?

• Get message to political decision makers & public

– Committed to working with PIRC and NASSCO as sponsors for the development of a broadcast and non-broadcast media package being developed by Penn State Public Broadcasting

– “America Underground: A Public Communications Package on the U.S. Water & Wastewater Infrastructure”

• Proposal developed – funds provided by NASSCO-1 year

• Project cost - $650,000

• Establishing a IAC-Industry Advisory Council

BAMI-I: What are you doing? • Develop educational programs

– Training & educational programs must move beyond awareness to assisting with organizational cultural change challenges required to implement advanced AM principles and practices

– Model being developed• Phase 1: Overview 3-4 hours Sr. Mgt.

Team• Phase 2: Workshop 2-3 daysMgt. Team• Phase 3: Development of a long-term program with

team participation and commitment– Teams

» Engineering» O&M» Legal» Procurement» CIP

BAMI-I: What are you doing?

• Develop O&M and pipe rehab. training in-house

– COA: Developing training programs with Unions to train employees with skills for self-installation

– Selected 3 trenchless processes• Localized repair

• Sealing mainlines, laterals & MHs from I&I

• Manhole renewal

BAMI-I: What are you doing?

Develop North American Technology Benchmarking Program

• Technology is critical for meeting future technical and financial challenges

• Develop programs which minimize barriers of entry and risk of failure

• Develop comprehensive evaluation programs with utility representatives designing the experiments

• Establish NA data warehouse for tracking performance

BAMI-I: What are you doing?

– Conducting assessment of utilities to assist with establishing a national direction for implementing AM programs for buried infrastructure

– Coordinating with other associations and researchers

BAMI-I: What will be the benefits?

Expediting & minimizing the cost of utilities implementing advanced AM programs for:

• Protecting public health, • Improving the environment, • Maximizing asset life-cycle value, • Sustaining economic development, and • Enhancing the quality of life.

BAMI-I: Where does it fit in LCAM?

• Our commitment is to develop well-defined policies & procedures which address the three main stages of every asset’s total life-cycle:– Planning, funding, engineering & construction– Operations & maintenance– Renewal & replacement

BAMI-I: When will it be available?

• Most of what we have initiated is an on-going process

BAMI-I:• Contact information:

– Dr. Troy Norris, City of Atlanta• Tel.: (404) 713 – 4603 E-mail: tnorris@atlantaga.gov

– Mr. John Griffin, City of Atlanta• Tel.: (404) 557 – 1555 E-mail: jgriffin@atlantaga.gov

– Mr. Richard Thomasson, Parsons Brinckerhoff• Tel.: (404) 368 – 2534 E-mail: thomasson@pbworld.com

– Mr. Leonard Ingram, Southeast Society for Trenchless Technology• Tel.: (334) 872 – 1012 E-mail: sestt@engconco.com

– Dr. Tom Iseley, Hydromax USA, Inc.• Tel.: (864) 322 – 2614 E-mail: tom.iseley@att.net