May 2005

IMLC:

A Model for Private Public Collaboration

Mark G. Damm, CMC

Phone: 604.218.0304

Email: mark.damm@trilogics.net

May 2005

The Infrastructure Sustainability Crisis

Danger Opportunity

Infrastructure Performance Optimization

Improved Sustainability

Increased Collaboration

Rallying Cause

Innovations

Societal collapse

Pollution

Environmental decay

Structural failure

Children Crying

People Dying

May 2005

Strategies to Close the Infrastructure Sustainability Gap

Top Down:

• Efficiency and optimization

• Innovations

• Restructuring

Bottom Up:

• Demand side management

May 2005

Infrastructure Strategy Map

Strategy Time Risk Budget Target

Optimization Short Low 60-85% 40-60%

Innovations Med Med 5-15% 20-30%

Restructuring Med High 5-15% 10-20%

Demand Mgmt. Long Med 5-10% 10-20%

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Payback from Asset Management

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 à

Improved Resource Management

Immediate and ongoing

Improved Work Management

1 to 3 years

Improved Asset Life Cycle Management

3 to 10 years

Improved System Management

5 to 25 years for returns

May 2005

Product/Idea Adoption

Adoption Cycle Hype Cycle

Height of Expectations

Trough of Disillusionment

AdoptionMaturity

May 2005

Tools to Optimize Asset Life-Cycle Management

Regional AssociationsSharing Infrastructure

Management Practices

The Infrastructure Management Learning Community

May 2005

IMLC

Q: What is a Learning Community?

A: A purposeful restructuring of the learning environment so that participants find greater coherence in what they are learning and greater interaction with peers. It also supports testing new ideas and behaviors in the pursuit of finding ways that work.

May 2005

IMLC Goals

• Focus on disseminating, educating and advancing infrastructure management knowledge.

• Support transition to full life cycle based infrastructure planning that incorporates new infrastructure management practices and tools.

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IMLC Objectives

1. Advance the understanding and implementation of Asset Life-Cycle Management (ALM) practices

2. Establish Regional Partnerships3. Leverage and focus independent

research and experimentation efforts related to infrastructure management

4. Introduce performance management systems

May 2005

Community Members

• International collaboration of infrastructure stakeholders: government (local, regional, national), industry, universities and colleges, development agencies and NPO/NGOs

• Infrastructure stakeholders: utilities, local governments, regional governments, private utility operators, service providers, etc.

May 2005

Participant Characteristics

• Private Sector: Industry– Profit, ROI (3-7 years, annuity)– Risk Capital: Reward based on Risk– Market Size: large enough return

• Public Sector: All levels of Government– Community Development many facets– Risk Averse– Long sales and adoption cycle– Election cycle

• Academic Community– Core Research – advance knowledge

• Infrastructure Owners/Managers– Efficient operations

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IMLC Structure

IMLC

3P / JV* Shared Services

* Field Tests* Innovations

Industry Consortiums

Products and Services

Industry Stakeholders

Industry AssociationsFunding Agencies and Private Capital

Infrastructure Owners/

ManagersOMBI, Infraguide, Innovations Group,

ICMA, FCM, APWA, etc.

Academic, NGO & Government

Community

Partnerships Needs and Sites

An International Collaboration

Collaboration Portal

Case StudiesBusiness CasesSolution Configurations

BenchmarksPlanning Tools

Solution Sourcing

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Enabling Technology

Services and Infrastructure KnowledgeRepository

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Performance Reporting

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The Technology Platform

Asset Management Performance planning tools for O&M and capital,

asset plans, developing and managing business cases

Services and Infrastructure KnowledgeRepository

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Business Intelligence tools for reporting infrastructure, corporate, and service performance. Results can be used in benchmarking through the portal Infrastructure Community portal for

sharing practices and knowledge, reporting performance, benchmarking, evaluating products and procedures etc.

Data warehouse: Practices, performance/cost data, cross functional / cross organization indicators

May 2005

The Window of Opportunity is Now

Efficiencies must be achieved to reduce the impact of insufficient funding

Systems must be able to support growth

Advanced asset lifecycle management can achieve considerable savings, improve infrastructure sustainability and provide a strategic advantage.

Alternative funding frees capital for other investments.

Alternative service delivery methods gives you the freedom to focus on other business initiatives.

Economies of scale, advanced asset lifecycle management, and infrastructure sustainability will benefit all stakeholders.

May 2005

For more Information:

www.infranews.com

Mark Dammemail: mark.damm@trilogics.net

Phone: 604.484.7188Mobile: 604.218.0304