Infrastructure AdvisoryPERSPECTIVES
Independent thinking on infrastructure decisions where commercial, engineering and operational considerations need to be reconciled.
A cost model can reconcile mathematically and still give the wrong answer. The more important test is whether its operating, asset, maintenance, resource, lifecycle and commercial assumptions reconcile with the evidence.
Read perspective →A technical condition does not automatically become a commercial matter. The question is when the evidence requires engineering, operational and commercial records to be considered together.
Read perspective →An open item, a deferred item and an accepted condition look alike in a transfer record. Where a cost is recorded is not necessarily where responsibility for that cost belongs.
Read perspective →A control introduced under urgency acquires a work order, a budget line and a crew. It becomes permanent not by decision, but when the organisation stops being able to say what would end it.
Read perspective →Whether a remedy or an obligation would succeed depends on its terms and the facts. Whether it can be evidenced at all depends on records the organisation already controls.
Read perspective →Availability holds while cost rises; cost falls while availability holds. Either gap is information, and neither explains itself. The measure has to be interrogated before the budget is.
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