Mandate
Achievement of a condition report on the assets of Plessisville city
- 11 asset categories covered by the study: drinking water supply assets, stormwater and wastewater management assets, transportation assets, waste management assets, information technology, enviromental services, public safety, civic institutions, parks and outdoor recreation and vehicles and equipment
- Use of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) top-down method that allows the city to answer the following four main questions: 1) what do we have?, 2) how much is it worth?, 3) what is the condition of the different assets?, 4) what is the useful life of the assets?
Methodology
- Drawing up a portrait of the city's asset inventory, determine their replacement values and lifetimes using data collected 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 state of the assets through google form questionnaires addressed to the managers, interviews and workshops,
- Make 10-year projections on the condition of the assets, taking into account past investments and future trends,
- Formulate recommendations to the city on the interventions and investments to be made on each family of assets in order to allow the municipal actors to make informed decisions concerning their assets and to establish an order of prioritization of the interventions.
- Validate the results obtained by the top-down method using the bottom-up method for drinking water supply assets
- background
- city hall