Disruption and innovation often go hand in hand, but there is an important difference between the two. For example, the use of smartphones to connect online with business services was an innovation. But when Uber began using smartphones to facilitate ride-sharing, the result was a disruption that literally had people fighting in the streets.
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Martin Kerr spoke at the Australian Corrosion Associations (ACA) annual conference on behalf of the Asset Management Council. Here is a short summary from Martin:
Mo Barghash has been the Technical Project Manager at the Asset Management Council for more than 3 and a half years. During that time he has seen the organisation develop as he managed many technical projects. Many of your will have had interaction’s with Mo and enjoyed his lively personality and happy attitude which will be sadly missed in the office.
The wastewater collection network in metropolitan Adelaide consists of a large number of assets distributed over a wide geographic area. This poses significant challenges in both conducting and prioritising asset management activities for these assets, including maintenance, rehabilitation, condition assessment and replacement. United Water has met these challenges in a cost-effective manner by developing prioritisation models utilising the functionality of GIS and InfoNet. The wastewater collection system in Adelaide includes over 80,000 wastewater access chambers, termed ‘manholes’, and 900 sewer vent stacks, commonly known as ‘educt vents’.