Reducing Capital Budgets Through Pipe Segment Replacement Planning and Acoustic Monitoring

摘要

Developing an affordable utility capital plan with declining revenues during an economic downturn is like playing the Parker Brothers' game of Jenga, in which players remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, stretching it taller and making it increasingly unstable as the game progresses. Jenga, like capital planning, is a game of physical and mental skill. Jenga means "build" in Swahili. Capital planning for a utility means "infrastructure replacement and sustainability."