Public Facility Asset Management

Author: World Book Publishing Company
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Publish Date: 2005-06-24
Features: "Public Facility Asset Management" is set against the backdrop of the development history of modern social infrastructure construction and management, comprehensively elaborating on the significance, basic concepts, and overall framework of public facility asset management. It proposes a new concept of holistic management integrating planning, design, construction, maintenance, repair, and renewal within infrastructure. The main contents include: challenges in public facility asset management; information management and decision support systems; total quality management concepts; economic analysis, life cycle cost analysis, and maintenance, repair, and renewal planning; the development, implementation, application, and prospects of public facility asset management systems. This book can serve as an introductory and reference reading for various infrastructure managers and technical personnel from government agencies, owner units, project companies, design consulting institutions, contractors, and research institutions. It can also be used as a foundational course for postgraduate students in civil engineering, transportation, municipal engineering, and related management disciplines, or as an elective course for undergraduate students.