TY - BOOK ID - 4864990 TI - Asset Management for Infrastructure Systems : Energy and Water AU - Balzer, Gerd. AU - Schorn, Christian. PY - 2015 SN - 9783319178790 3319178784 9783319178783 3319178792 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Energy. KW - Energy Policy, Economics and Management. KW - Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. KW - Facility Management. KW - Management of Computing and Information Systems. KW - Information Systems. KW - Engineering. KW - Ingénierie KW - Business & Economics KW - Industries KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Systèmes d'information KW - Energy industries KW - Public utilities KW - Management. KW - Energy policy. KW - Energy and state. KW - Environmental management. KW - Management information systems. KW - Computer science. KW - Facility management. KW - Power resources KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Computer-based information systems KW - EIS (Information systems) KW - Executive information systems KW - MIS (Information systems) KW - Sociotechnical systems KW - Information resources management KW - Management KW - Facilities management KW - Factory management KW - Plant engineering KW - Environmental stewardship KW - Stewardship, Environmental KW - Environmental sciences KW - Energy and state KW - State and energy KW - Industrial policy KW - Energy conservation KW - Communication systems KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4864990 AB - The book offers a broad overview of asset management processes for different utilities, with a special emphasis on energy and water. It provides readers with important practical considerations concerning the development of new competitive structures and procedures for guaranteeing a sufficient supply of energy and water in a regulated environment, using clearly defined technical and economic cornerstones. On the one hand asset owners expect suitable interests from their investment and business growth; on the other hand regulators focus more on a reliable and cost-effective customer supply. This book shows how to take into consideration these different perspectives in the process of designing new structures, and how to guarantee organizational transparency. Based on the major tasks of an asset manager, it describes essential principles and boundary conditions for ensuring the optimal use of resources in a network, such as investment and maintenance strategies, equipment service life, investment and operational costs, etc. Moreover, it points out their impact on the organization of the company, including the necessary IT landscape and computer programs. The book is the English translation of Asset Management für Infrastrukturanlagen - Energie und Wasser1, written by the same authors and published by Springer in 2014. ER -