In an attempt to turn data management into a profitable enterprise, many businesses are seeking to integrate and centralise their data through data warehousing. A data warehouse then allows businesses to turn data into knowledge, and turn knowledge into tangible profits. One key success factor...

Asset health prediction is imperative to optimal asset management. Online and offline inspections can provide useful information for predicting asset health. The information from an asset health inspection can be divided into two types. (1) Direct indicators which directly determine failures...

Organisations owning and managing infrastructure assets are constantly striving to obtain the greatest life time value. This has resulted in an increasing preference for the privatisation of infrastructure asset provision based on the assumption of greater competition-led performance. Despite...