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Bridge Management
Bridge management is a specialized form of asset management that focuses on developing and implementing a maintenance plan to optimize the service life of bridges.
By investing in timely maintenance treatments, you can extend the service life of your bridges, avoiding premature and costly rehabilitations and replacements. For example, by identifying rot or rust on bridge members in the initial stages, you can treat or remove the applicable area, and reduce the rot or rust’s progression.
Pier Solutions guides clients through the following steps to develop a bridge management system, allowing you to strategically focus your investments and reduce long-term costs.
Steps to Create a Bridge Management System:
By investing in timely maintenance treatments, you can extend the service life of your bridges, avoiding premature and costly rehabilitations and replacements. For example, by identifying rot or rust on bridge members in the initial stages, you can treat or remove the applicable area, and reduce the rot or rust’s progression.
Pier Solutions guides clients through the following steps to develop a bridge management system, allowing you to strategically focus your investments and reduce long-term costs.
Steps to Create a Bridge Management System:
1. Inventory
A bridge management system starts with the development of an inventory, which includes basic information on bridges' location, geometry, materials and roadway type.
2. Inspections
Inspections allow clients to identify required repairs, and categorize the repairs based on urgency. Inspections are generally recommended every three to four years, or more frequently if the bridge is in poor condition. The sooner a deficiency is caught, the less costly it is to repair!
Pier Solution's inspections follow the OSIM (Ontario Structure Inspection Manual) format, which is the standard used by Manitoba Infrastructure and most Canadian provinces.
3. Maintenance Plan
A maintenance plan is the action plan for investing in bridges. A maintenance plan provides a framework for budgeting and scheduling prioritized investments, according to each repair’s level of urgency and the bridge’s strategic importance within the transportation network. This is an interactive, collaborative, and iterative process, where Pier Solutions works together with clients, based on their priorities and budgets.
4. Maintenance Implementation
This step results in the performance of maintenance solutions. Choosing the ideal contract model for implementing maintenance solutions has implications on the quality, cost, and potential engagement of local trades in your area. Take a look at the various options here, or contact Pier Solutions to discuss.
Pier Solutions offers specialized maintenance and construction services to ensure maintenance work is carried out to completion.
Contact us to start your bridge management system.
