Water Infrastructure Investment: Prioritize the Right Projects

As a water utility, you face a critical challenge: making smart investment decisions amid a growing number of competing priorities. You must address aging infrastructure while meeting evolving regulatory requirements, enhance service to your communities while ensuring employee safety and well-being, and balance numerous programs within constrained budgets. Determining which projects to advance—and when—can be difficult. Traditional planning approaches often rely on fragmented data and manual processes, limiting the ability to prioritize effectively. AssetAdvanced® addresses this challenge by transforming complex data into clear, actionable investment strategies.

With AssetAdvanced®, we provide you with a powerful decision-support system for capital planning. These tools enable you to create holistic, multi-year Capital Improvement Plans (CIPs) that integrate risk, benefits, and budget constraints into a single, optimized framework.

• Data Integration: Combine project data, risk and benefit scores, and financial constraints into one platform.
• Optimization Engine: Use advanced algorithms to prioritize projects based on multiple criteria—risk reduction, service reliability, and community impact.
• Scenario Modeling: Simulate different investment strategies to find the best balance between cost and performance.
• Stakeholder Communication: Generate clear, visual outputs that serve as a communication tool for boards, regulators, and internal teams.

• Smarter Investments: Allocate funds where they deliver the greatest value.
• Risk Mitigation: Reduce the likelihood of costly failures by targeting high-risk assets.
• Transparency: Build trust with stakeholders through data-driven decisions.
• Efficiency: Save time and resources by automating complex planning processes.

Contact us to learn how AssetAdvanced® can help you build a smarter, more resilient water infrastructure investment strategy.

The City of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management needed to integrate three major master plans—water, wastewater, and stormwater—under strict budget constraints heightened by the pandemic.

Using the AssetAdvanced® Program Scheduling software, the team combined project data, budget limits, and triple bottom line and risk reduction criteria to evaluate potential CIP investments. The model identified an optimized 10 year plan that delivered the highest benefits while staying under budget, enabling transparent, data driven project selection and supporting Atlanta’s transition to a consistent, 5 year rolling CIP.