Mandate
Completion of an asset condition assessment for the city of Plessisville
- 11 categories of assets involved in the study: potable water supply assets, stormwater and wastewater management assets, transportation assets, waste management assets, information technology assets, ecological services, public safety assets, civic facilities, outdoor parks and recreation, and vehicles and equipment.
- Use of the top-down method from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) which allows the city to answer the following four main questions: 1) what do we own? 2) how much is it worth? 3) what is the condition of the various asset components? 4) what is the useful life of the assets?
Methodology
- Prepare a portrait of the city's asset inventory, determine their replacement values and lifespans using collected data and past experiences,
- Define the criteria to be evaluated, namely: physical condition and performance, capacity versus needs, available funding versus needs, and assign weights to each criterion,
- Qualitatively assess the condition of the assets through Google Form questionnaires addressed to managers, interviews, and workshops,
- Make projections over a 10-year horizon on the condition of the assets considering past investments and future trends,
- Formulate recommendations to the city on interventions and investments to be made on each asset family to enable municipal stakeholders to make informed decisions regarding their assets and establish a prioritization order for interventions.
- Validate the results obtained by the top-down method using the bottom-up method for drinking water supply assets.
- background
- city hall