# Presentation: 871986

## A Working Session Exploring Opportunities to Enhance Collaboration By Water and Wastewater Utilities in Advancing Asset ManagementMay 5th & 6th, 2005 - Washington DC

- Session  4:	**Education, Communication  &  ****	****	****	****	****Professional Development Initiatives**
- BAMI-I:		**Buried Asset Management Institute- ****	****	****	****	****	****International, Inc.**
- Representative:	**Tom Iseley, Ph.D., P.E.    ****	****	****	****	****	****President of the Board of Directors  &  **
**	****	****	****	****	****Acting Executive Director**

## BAMI-I

- February 2003:	Formed BAMI in the Department of Watershed Management (DWM) of the City of Atlanta (COA) by Commissioner Jack Ravan
- Purpose:	To serve as a resource to the DWM to accomplish Mayor Shirley Franklin’s Vision of moving the COA’s WATER program beyond consent decree requirements to “First-in-Class”
- July 2004:	Established BAMI-International as a non-profit 501 (c) 3 Corporation.
- December 2004:	First Board of Directors meeting

## BAMI-I:	Mission Statement

**To provide a center of excellence for owners of underground water infrastructure to join with industry and researchers, using sound science, to evaluate and/or develop buried asset management protocols for application worldwide to benefit ratepayers and other stakeholders by: **
**Protecting public health,**** **
**Improving the environment, **
**Maximizing asset life-cycle value, **
**Sustaining economic development, and **
**Enhancing the quality of life.**

## BAMI-I:	What are you doing?

- Establishing a resource to assist utilities in “Achieving excellence in buried infrastructure sustainability –         for the 21st Century
- HOW?
**Get the message to political decision makers & public**
**Develop educational programs**
**Develop O&M and pipe rehab. training in-house**
**Develop North American Technology Benchmarking Program**
**Conducting assessment of utilities to assist with establishing a national direction for implementing AM programs for buried infrastructure**
**Coordinating with other associations and researchers**

## BAMI-I:	 What are you doing? 	

**Get message to political decision makers & public**
**Committed to working with PIRC and NASSCO as sponsors for the development of a broadcast and non-broadcast media package being developed by Penn State Public Broadcasting**
**“**_***America Underground: A Public Communications Package on the U.S. Water & Wastewater Infrastructure”***_
**Proposal developed – funds provided by NASSCO-1 year**
**Project cost - $650,000**
**Establishing a IAC-Industry Advisory Council**

## BAMI-I:	 What are you doing? 	

**Develop educational programs**
**Training & educational programs must move beyond awareness to assisting with organizational cultural change challenges required to implement advanced AM principles and practices**
**Model being developed**
**Phase 1:****	****Overview****	****3-4 hours****	****Sr. Mgt. Team**
**Phase 2:****	****Workshop****	****2-3 days****	****Mgt. Team**
**Phase 3:****	****Development of a long-term program with team ****	****	****participation and commitment**
**Teams**
**Engineering**
**O&M**
**Legal**
**Procurement**
**CIP**

## BAMI-I:	 What are you doing?

**Develop O&M and pipe rehab. training in-house**
**COA:****	****Developing training programs with Unions to train ****	****	****employees with skills for self-installation**
**Selected 3 trenchless processes**
**Localized repair**
**Sealing mainlines, laterals & MHs from I&I**
**Manhole renewal**

## BAMI-I:	What are you doing?

**Develop North American Technology Benchmarking Program**
- Technology is critical for meeting future technical and financial challenges
- Develop programs which minimize barriers of entry and risk of failure
- Develop comprehensive evaluation programs with utility representatives designing the experiments
- Establish NA data warehouse for tracking performance

## BAMI-I:	What are you doing?

**Conducting assessment of utilities to assist with establishing a national direction for implementing AM programs for buried infrastructure**
**Coordinating with other associations and researchers**

## BAMI-I:	What will be the benefits?

**Expediting & minimizing the cost of utilities implementing advanced AM programs for:**
**Protecting public health, **
**Improving the environment, **
**Maximizing asset life-cycle value, **
**Sustaining economic development, and **
**Enhancing the quality of life.**

## BAMI-I:	Where does it fit in LCAM?

- Our commitment is to develop well-defined policies & procedures which address the three main stages of every asset’s total life-cycle:
- Planning, funding, engineering & construction
- Operations & maintenance
- Renewal & replacement

## BAMI-I:	When will it be available?

- Most of what we have initiated is an on-going process

## BAMI-I:

- Contact information:
**Dr. Troy Norris, City of Atlanta**
**Tel.:  (404) 713 – 4603      E-mail:  tnorris@atlantaga.gov**
**Mr. John Griffin, City of Atlanta**
**Tel.:  (404) 557 – 1555****	****E-mail:  jgriffin@atlantaga.gov**
**Mr. Richard Thomasson, Parsons Brinckerhoff**
**Tel.:  (404) 368 – 2534****	****E-mail:  thomasson@pbworld.com**
**Mr. Leonard Ingram, Southeast Society for Trenchless Technology**
**Tel.:  (334) 872 – 1012****	****E-mail:  sestt@engconco.com**
**Dr. Tom Iseley, Hydromax USA, Inc.**
**Tel.:  (864) 322 – 2614****	****E-mail:  tom.iseley@att.net**