Improving decision-making in maintenance policies and contract specifications for infrastructure projects

Lozano, Jorge-Mario; Sánchez-Silva, Mauricio

doi:10.1080/15732479.2019.1581818

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“…Infrastructure maintenance is often part of larger contracts that may include multiple services such as design, construction, and management of new sections of existing infrastructure (Himmel & Siemiatycki, 2017). Sub-contracted organizations are free to decide how to find a trade-off between profit maximization and provision of maintenance service (Lozano & Sánchez-Silva, 2019). Although infrastructure procurement can lead to innovations, these are usually in construction techniques or the selection of materials that will last longer for a lower cost, rather than on maintenance practices themselves (Larsson et al, 2022).…”

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Maintaining innovation: How to make sewer robots and innovation policy work in Barcelona

Cuevas-Garcia,

Pepponi,

Pfotenhauer

2023

Soc Stud Sci

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This article explores how innovation logics infiltrate problem and value definitions in maintenance and repair, and how innovation itself depends on considerable, often invisible care work beyond the seemingly smooth entrepreneurial narratives. We build on a growing body of work in STS that investigates the relationship between innovation and maintenance and repair. This literature argues that the obsession with innovation crowds out attention to maintenance, that innovation creates future obligations of maintenance that are often not factored into technological promises, and that ordinary maintenance and repair practices are often innovative in their own right. Empirically, we explore a case where maintenance and repair become the explicit target of high-level, high-tech innovation initiatives and how, as a result, innovation logics colonize maintenance practices. Conceptually, we explore how repair and maintenance sensitivities can be applied to innovation practices to reveal the invisible work needed to align innovation instruments with socio-material and institutional configurations. Drawing on an in-depth case study of sewer inspection robots in Barcelona, we find that attempts to innovate maintenance require a symmetric effort to maintain innovation. In our case study, innovation processes as deployed by the European Commission, research consortia, and companies required substantial repair work to function reliably in specific settings. Our study shows how divergent understandings of the public good in innovation and maintenance contexts may lead to significant tensions, and that much can be gained analytically from not treating innovation and maintenance as opposites.

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Maintaining innovation: How to make sewer robots and innovation policy work in Barcelona

Cuevas-Garcia,

Pepponi,

Pfotenhauer

2023

Soc Stud Sci

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“…Fast delivery of well-maintained facilities to the people and the use of minimal monetary resources due to budget restrictions are two key criteria in maintenance policy decision-making (Lozano & Sánchez-Silva, 2019). To enable this trade-off,a method for scheduling the maintenance actions based on the prioritised queue described above is presented in this section.…”

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“…Ideally, measures for restoring all degraded facilities to a good condition status should be taken at once (Klumbyte et al, 2020). Real-life, however, imposes budgetary restrictions that prevent local authorities from simultaneously undertaking all the required measures, forcing them to prioritise among all the facilities demanding corrective maintenance (Della Spina, 2020;Gade, Larsen, Nissen, & Jensen, 2018;Klumbyte et al, 2020;Lozano & Sánchez-Silva, 2019;Ruiz, Aguado, Serrat, & Casas, 2019). As a consequence, it is necessary to articulate medium to long term management strategies prioritising actions across their asset portfolios (Abu-Samra et al, 2020;Christen, Adey, & Wallbaum, 2016;Gade et al, 2018;Höing & Kaempf-Dern, 2019;Klumbyte et al, 2020;Lu, 2017;McArthur & Jofeh, 2017;Nägeli et al, 2019;Randrup, Svännel, Sunding, Jansson, & Sang, 2021;Zavadskas et al, 2021).…”

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“…Finally, the proposed tool facilitates a prioritised schedule at the municipal level of the assets needing maintenance according to their contribution to SUD and their economic cost. This way, the model articulates the idea that the faster the society receives the benefits associated with the restoration of any infrastructure to a good maintenance condition, the better, as opposed to the social cost related to a delay in this achievement (Lozano & Sánchez-Silva, 2019). Examples of this social cost are delays in the building of infrastructure assets, or having to postpone corrective maintenance over deteriorated roads due to financial unavailability (with the subsequent increase in the risk of accident).…”

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Improved delivery of social benefits through the maintenance planning of public assets

Salas

Yepes

2022

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

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The prioritisation of public facilities' maintenance is a necessary but complex task due to the need of considering both physical and socio-economic criteria. This study addresses this problem by quantifying the improvement in the delivery of social benefits that the corrective maintenance of an urban area's public facilities could yield. Based on this, a decision framework is proposed to design and schedule corrective maintenance plans at a municipal scale. The methodology integrates multi-criteria assessment with an analytical method for evaluating the contribution of an area's public facilities to its sustainable urban development based on their type of social infrastructure and their maintenance condition. The decision framework is implemented as a software to facilitate its application to a case study, consisting in building urban regeneration strategies aligned with governmental guidelines. The results revealed that decision-making is more efficient when considering the facilities' type of social infrastructure. In addition, a cost-efficient prioritisation of corrective measures yields better results than neglecting the economy.

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The influencing factors developing PDCA model to achieve sustainability of area-based infrastructure project evaluation (AIPE)

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Tuntiratananon,

Phansri

2024

Environ Dev Sustain

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Improving decision-making in maintenance policies and contract specifications for infrastructure projects

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

Maintaining innovation: How to make sewer robots and innovation policy work in Barcelona

Maintaining innovation: How to make sewer robots and innovation policy work in Barcelona

Improved delivery of social benefits through the maintenance planning of public assets

The influencing factors developing PDCA model to achieve sustainability of area-based infrastructure project evaluation (AIPE)

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