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Asset-management strategies for infrastructure embankments

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Stephanie Glendinning, Professor Jim Hall, Lucy Manning

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Abstract

Many of the earthworks that support UK transport networks are suffering because of their age and historical lack of investment in maintenance and repair. Current asset owners have to satisfy users' expectations of minimal delay in the context of ageing assets, imperfect knowledge of their condition, limited resources, increasing traffic, higher speeds, increasing environmental standards and an increasing threat from climate change. This paper summarises current asset-management practice for infrastructure embankments and illustrates how current research is providing information to assist asset owners in improving asset-management practice in the light of climate change. Additionally, it re-examines asset-management practice using a simple sustainability-based framework.

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Author(s): Glendinning S, Hall JW, Manning LJ

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability

Year: 2009

Volume: 162

Issue: 2

Pages: 111-120

Print publication date: 01/01/2009

ISSN (print): 1478-4629

ISSN (electronic): 1751-7680

Publisher: Thomas Telford

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/ensu.2009.162.2.111

DOI: 10.1680/ensu.2009.162.2.111

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