Faced with a record quantity of built infrastructure to manage, agencies are under growing pressure to implement processes that will allow them to do so in an increasingly efficient and effective manner. For the purposes of this paper, the infrastructure asset management field is assumed to be the primary force driving the development and implementation of such processes. It should be noted that the asset management field itself is in its infancy stage, when compared to over a century of modern infrastructure construction. None the less, since its formal conception in the 1990s, there has been ample time for its concepts such as “the right treatment at the right time” to be accepted in managing agencies across the developed world.
