Practical guidance for the people who run and oversee utility infrastructure.
Plain-language articles for utility directors, field crews, finance staff, GIS teams, and the engineers who work alongside them. New articles are added regularly.
Watch short video demonstrations of maps, mobile inspections, and dashboards.
Ten short clips organized by mapping, mobile field work, asset management, and dashboards.
How to Turn Water-Main Break Records into a Renewal Priority Map
A practical look at using the break history you already have to guide renewal priorities.
Field OperationsHow to Manage 5,000 Hydrants with Limited Staff
Approaches for keeping inspection schedules realistic when crew time is the scarcest resource.
Capital PlanningFive Questions Every Utility Should Answer Before Building Its CIP
Questions worth answering before the first project ever makes it onto a capital improvement plan.
Utility–Engineer CollaborationHow Utilities and Consulting Engineers Can Work Without Creating Duplicate Data
Why disconnected copies of the same information happen, and practical ways to avoid them.
Wastewater InfrastructureFrom Lift-Station Inspections to a Risk-Based Capital Plan
Connecting routine lift-station inspection data to a defensible set of capital priorities.
Funding ReadinessHow to Prepare Asset Data for Infrastructure Funding Applications
What organized, well-documented asset information typically needs to look like before an application goes out.
Asset Management FoundationsWhat Elected Officials Need to Understand About Deferred Utility Investment
A plain explanation of what happens, over time, when infrastructure investment is postponed.
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As we complete pilot projects and implementations with utility partners, we will publish case studies here. See the case studies page →