Over the past 18 years, there has been a paradigm shift in the asset management of urban drainage systems in Germany. It was realized that the technical and financial data used for asset management was insufficient for developing efficient investment and rehabilitation strategies to maintain the value of urban drainage systems. Specifically, there were quality deficits in technical data related to damage and condition assessments and in financial data related to book values and remaining book values.

The webinar introduces a new approach to asset management that allows for a differentiated economic analysis to develop efficient, demand-specific rehabilitation and investment strategies. By fully assessing the economic impact of rehabilitation strategies, this approach facilitates consensus among all technical, financial, and political stakeholders involved in the decision-making process.

About Dr.-Ing. Robert Stein

Dr.-Ing. Robert Stein is the Managing Associate of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH and Managing Director of STEIN Infrastructure Management GmbH. His business activities include the provision of integrated services in the areas of municipal finances, fees and investments. He and his team develop, optimize and implement integral asset management concepts, methods and systems and their monitoring for municipal infrastructure systems. So far, he has helped more than 40 municipalities to administer and manage their water and wastewater infrastructure systems. The total replacement value of these systems is estimated at 80 billion €.

Since 1995, he has published more than 100 publications, reports, expertise, and feasibility studies. He is the author of the reference book “Wertermittlung von Abwassernetzen (Asset Valuation of Sewer Networks),” Trenchless Technology for Installation of Cables and Pipelines – 2nd Volume: Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD), of the chapter on pipe jacking works (ATV DIN 18319) and co-author of the 4th edition of the international bestseller “Instandhaltung von Kanalisationen” (Rehabilitation of Drain and Sewer Systems) as well as of various technical articles.