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Revised 2016 AMP Adola Woyu
Revised 2016 AMP Adola Woyu
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Adolla City Administration Asset Management Plan (AMP)
I. Summary information
Name of City: Adola Weyu
Region: Oromia
Name of Mayor :
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Adolla City Administration Asset Management Plan (AMP)
Table of Contents
Contents
I. Summary information ......................................................................................................................................... i
Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................................................ii
Executive Summary ..............................................................................................................................................xi
Structure of the (AMP) ........................................................................................................................................xii
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................... 15
I. General Background ....................................................................................................................... 15
II. Description of the City Administration ........................................................................................... 16
III. Asset Management Plan (AMP).................................................................................................. 18
A. Key Benefits .................................................................................................................................... 20
B. Key Principles.................................................................................................................................. 20
I. Key Considerations in Asset Management Plan ............................................................................. 21
1.1. Goals of the Asset Management ................................................................................................ 22
1.2. Scope of the AMP ....................................................................................................................... 23
1.3. Definitions of Major Relevant Terms ......................................................................................... 24
1. (Section) I. Building the GIS-Based Management System for The AMP (step I) ................... 28
General Background ............................................................................................................................... 28
1.1. Establishing of a GIS Project ....................................................................................................... 28
1.2. The difference between data and information .......................................................................... 29
1.3. Relationship between spatial and attribute data ....................................................................... 29
1.4. The Backdrop Image of the AMP ................................................................................................ 30
1.5. GIS protocol used for the asset management plan .................................................................... 31
1.6. Building a template structure for an asset management plan................................................... 32
1.7. The difference between spatial and attribute (non-spatial) data .............................................. 33
I. Spatial data ............................................................................................................................... 33
II. Attribute (non-spatial) data ..................................................................................................... 33
1.8. Defining the attribute data tables .............................................................................................. 33
1.9. Translating the operational relationship into a relationship based upon asset management .. 34
1.10. Translating the relationship between Infrastructure Components into a GIS-based database
structure 36
List of Tables
TABLE 1.THE DESCRIPTION OF THE 10 STEPS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OUTCOMES ................................................... 22
TABLE 2: THE ALLOCATION OF CATEGORIES OF PHYSICAL ASSETS TO THE FOUR STRATEGIC ACTIVITY AREAS ......... 47
TABLE 3 THE DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF ASSETS......................................... 48
TABLE 4: EXAMPLE OF TABULAR DATABASE FOR ROAD NETWORK CATEGORY AND SUB-CATEGORY ....................... 52
TABLE 5 SURFACE MATERIAL INDEX TABLE ................................................................................................................. 53
TABLE 6 CLASSIFICATION OF ASSET SUB-CATEGORIES BY GIS PROTOCOL .................................................................. 57
TABLE 7 CODES FOR ROADS BY SURFACE FINISH ........................................................................................................ 65
TABLE 8 CODE FOR ROAD CATEGORY BY HIERARCHY ................................................................................................. 65
TABLE 9: THE LIST OF CATEGORY AND FEATURE CLASS CODES USED FOR BLOCK 1 OF THE UNIQUE IDENTIFIER
(EXAMPLE).......................................................................................................................................................... 66
TABLE 10: FIELD ATTRIBUTES OF THE GIS DATABASE .................................................................................................. 70
TABLE 11: SUMMARY OF THE ASSET MANAGEMENT DATA SETS ............................................................................... 73
TABLE 12 THE EXTENT OF THE CITY`S ROAD NETWORK .............................................................................................. 82
TABLE 13 SUMMERY OF PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY BY SURFACE TYPE AND EQUIVALENT LENGTH BY
HERRARCY ........................................................................................................................................................ 86
TABLE 14 STREET LIGHT NETWORK INVENTORY ......................................................................................................... 86
TABLE 15 CULVERT INVENTORY................................................................................................................................... 87
TABLE 16 SUMMARY OF ADOLLA CITY WATER SUPPLY NETWORK ASSETS ................................................................ 87
TABLE 17 SUMMARY OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE BUILDINGS INVENTORY............................................................... 89
TABLE 63 MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES FOR DETERIORATED COMPACTED EARTH ROADS ............................. 139
TABLE 64 MAINTENANCE DEFICIT OF ROAD SURFACING .................................................................................. 140
TABLE 65 MAINTENANCE DEFICIT OF STREET LIGHT .......................................................................................... 141
TABLE 66 MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR ABOVE GROUND WATER SUPPLY NETWORK ASSETS .................... 143
TABLE 67 FORECASTED MAINTENANCE BUDGET FOR WATER LINES ........................................................................ 144
TABLE 68 PREVENTIVE -ROUTINE AND PERIODIC MAINTENANCE BUDGET FOR DRAINAGE NETWORKS .. 145
TABLE 69 MAINTENANCE DEFICITS OF DRAINAGE NETWORKS ........................................................................ 146
TABLE 70 MAINTAINING PUBLIC AND COMMUNAL TOILETS .................................................................................... 146
TABLE 71MAINTAINING GREENERY AND PARKS ....................................................................................................... 147
TABLE 72 REHABILITATION OF DRAINAGE CHANNELS ...................................................................................... 147
TABLE 73 PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SERVICE BUILDINGS........................................ 149
TABLE 74 MAINTENANCE DEFICIT OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SERVICE BUILDINGS ............................................... 151
TABLE 75 MAINTENANCE FORECAST FOR MACHINERIES, VEHICLES AND ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT ....... 152
TABLE 76 REHABILITATING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AREA AND SUPPORTING SERVICE ASSETS 155
TABLE 77 MAINTENANCE SUMMARY..................................................................................................................... 156
TABLE 78 REHABILITATION SUMMARY ................................................................................................................. 157
TABLE 79 : UNIT RATE FOR THE MOVEMENT NETWORK ASSETS .......................................................................... 160
TABLE 80 : UNIT RATE FOR WATER SUPPLY NETWORK ASSETS ................................................................................ 160
TABLE 81.9 : UNIT RATE FOR SOCIO ECONOMY ASSETS............................................................................................ 161
TABLE 82: RATE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIC ACTIVITY AREA ASSETS ............................................................ 161
TABLE 83 SUMMARY OF CURRENT REPLACEMENT COST OF THE CITY ASSETS ............................................... 162
TABLE 84 CURRENT REPLACEMENT COST OF THE MOVEMENT NETWORK ASSETS ....................................... 163
TABLE 85 CURRENT REPLACEMENT COST OF WATER SUPPLY NETWORK ASSETS ......................................... 164
TABLE 86 CURRENT REPLACEMENT COST OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSETS ........................ 165
TABLE 87 CURRENT REPLACEMENT COST OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STRATEGIC ASSETS ......................... 165
TABLE 88 CURRENT REPLACEMENT COST OF ADMINISTRATION OFFICE BUILDINGS & MACHINERIES ........ 166
TABLE 89 : SUMMARY OF ESTIMATED CURRENT VALUE AND ASSET DEFICIT OF THE CITY ASSETS .......................... 169
8. TABLE 90.9 : UNIT RATE 2016 .......................................................................................................................... 174
TABLE 91 COMMUNITY NEED ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................. 176
TABLE 92 POTENTIAL FUNDING OF THE THREE YEARS ROLLING CAPITAL INVESTMENT PLAN ................................. 180
TABLE 93FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR NEW WORKS PROJECTS BY STRATEGIC ACTIVITY ARE.................................... 182
TABLE 94 MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE MAINTENANCE DEFICIT ................................................ 185
TABLE 95 MAINTENANCE DEFICIT SUMMARY PRIORITIZED BY THREE YEARS ................................................. 187
TABLE 96 SUMMARY OF THREE - YEAR PROPOSED ROLLING PROGRAM BY STRATEGIC AREA AND
ACTIVITIES ....................................................................................................................................................... 192
TABLE 97 MAINTENANCE ROLLING PROGRAM BY STRATEGIC ACTIVITY AREA .............................................. 193
TABLE 98: THREE YEAR MAINTENANCE BUDGET FOR THE TOWN FOR EFY 2016 TO 2018
DEPENDING ON CIP ..................................................................................................................................... 194
TABLE 99. NEW WORKS PROJECTS INITIATED AGAINST APPROVED ...................................................................... 200
List of Figures
FIGURE 1 LOCATION MAP OF ADOLA WOYU TOWN ............................................................................................. 17
FIGURE 2 SATELLITE MAP OF ADOLA WEYU TOWN .................................................................................................... 17
Executive Summary
The preparation of this AMP adheres, as per the agreement, to the ten-step procedure of the
Asset Management manual which is prepared by the GIZ and latter elaborated and
contextualized by the then Ministry of Urban Development and Construction (which is now
called as Ministry of Urban Development, Housing and Construction).
Thus, the team began its task by detail identification and defining of asset Future classes for
those major assets classified by four strategic activity areas that have been identified and
presented in the Terms of Reference (ToR) by the city administration. Such defined asset
classified by four strategic activity areas and Future classes were defined for the study and
these have been presented for discussion with the focal persons of this Asset Management Plan
(AMP) project. And then, after incorporating all the comments come out from the discussion,
strategic activity areas and Future classes have been identified to be covered in this AMP
study and for which a precise report was submitted to the city administration in the inception
report. It is with this background that this AMP is prepared.
Introduction This is an introductory part of the plan preparation which includes a brief
review of J Adolla’s General Background, the Terms of Reference (ToR) that
has been prepared for this AMP preparation, Definitions of Related Terms,
Objectives the Project, the Approach and Methodology, and this
Structure/Organization of the Asset Management plan.
Section I: First section which deals about Step 1 of the AMP process that is development
and building of GIS project and the data management structure. It comprises
six sub-sections that describe General Background (including assessment of
requirement) of the Map Option, Use of GIS Application and Environment
(including the proposed systems), Spatial Data Management System and SQL
database system, integrating the Future classes into the GIS Environment, and
the SQL database system.
Section II: This is the Second section which deals about Step 2 of the AMP, Building an
institutional framework for Asset Management Plan and a comprehensive,
integrated, structure for managing the City’s Assets.
Section III: This section deals about Step 3 of the AMP preparation process that is a step in
which the inventoried asset data is compiled. This section consists of three sub-
sections that deal about creation of Unique Identification Number (UIN) for
assets, Structure of the Asset Data and the Inventoried Asset Data.
Section IV: Section 4 presents the asset condition assessment (which is step-4 of the AMP
preparation process) and within which the Overall Condition Assessment
Indicators and the Condition Assessment for all asset categories have been
presented
Section V: This section addresses step 5 of the AMP preparation process that refers to
preparation of the asset maintenance budget guide and in which critical issues
like Asset Maintenance Activities are stated, Unit Rates for Maintenance are
created and Overall Budgetary Cost Requirements for Maintenance are
estimated and presented.
Section VI: Section 6 deals with Step-6 of the AMP preparation processes (that discusses
Replacement Cost and Existing Value of Asset Base)in which four sub-titles
(such as List of Unit rates for New Assets, Replacement Cost of city
administration Asset Base, the current Value of Assets and Asset Deficits) are
made and presented.
Section VII: This section is devoted to that of Step-7 and in which Measure of Assets against
Strategic Goals and Objectives is addressed. Thus, it includes discussions on the
Significance of such Measuring, Capital Investment, City Revenue, and
Planning for New Works.
Section III: This section, in another instance, is dealt with detailed plan for on-going
maintenance, together with a plan to address the maintenance deficit
Section IX: This section represents Step-9 of the AMP preparation process and deals about
A set of summary tables that show both the approved new works, and the
maintenance projects, set out as a 3-year rolling program.
Section X: This is a final section of AMP which looks on Step 10 of the process that deals
about the development of implementation strategy. This has two sub sections
and one of which is General Policy Framework for Implementation Strategy
(which reviews Policy Considerations, Roles and Responsibilities, Staffing
Situation, Use of GIS Environment for AMP, Integrating AMP with
Infrastructure Management, Updating/ Revision of AMP and Decentralization
to Kebele). The second one deals about specific implementation strategy of this
AMP (which include Budget and Operational Plan, Maintenance Plan, and
staff as well as Resource Allocation).
INTRODUCTION
I. General Background
The Government of Ethiopia (GOE) as part of its efforts to improve the performance of the
Urban Institutional & Infrastructure Development Program (UIIDP) in terms of efficiency,
accountability and delivery of urban infrastructure and services, has introduced a performance
grant system for capital investments and capacity building.
The Urban Institutional & Infrastructure Development Program (UIIDP) gives due attention not
only for the provision of infrastructure to the cities, but also for proper management and
administration of its infrastructure. Asset inventory and updating, condition analysis, and
maintenance of infrastructure are key pillars of asset management plan (AMP) in UIIDP.
In this regard, cities administration under the program are collecting and updating different
infrastructure assets in yearly bases so as to plan, maintain, analyze the progress, and use to
generate periodic reports. However, infrastructure data are not systematically registered and
used in the cities as well as bureaus for proper planning and communication. Furthermore, the
data and information of cities infrastructure used by different stakeholders are inconsistent and
lacks clarity. To address this problem, be it infrastructure provision and management core process
of Adola Weyu town Administration intended to undertake asset registry and the
development of city`s infrastructure central database which is used by different stakeholders for
proper planning and communication.
Adola Woyu town is located in Guji Zone of the Oromia National Regional State at a distance of
about 470 km from Addis Ababa and 120km from the zone capital city of Nagele town. The
absolute location of the town is 50 53’00”N and 38059’00”E. It is entirely engulfed with peasant
association of Dole in the North and North East, Derartu in the North East, Adamma Dhiba in
the east, Gobicha in the south and south west and Bilu in the west. The existing area under the
The shape of the town is more compact although there is sort of star shaped development along
the transport routes to Hawassa, Negelle. The relief of Adola Woyu town is not a hindrance for
infrastructure development. This is because of suitable topography except few areas that have
rugged topography. Elevation of the town ranges from 1696 to 1760 meters. The average annual
rainfall is from 1800 to 2200 mm.
According to the population and housing census conducted in 2007, the town total population is
estimated to be 31,755. Out of this 51% of the populations are males and the remaining 49% of
the populations are females. The town was established and administered as a municipality in
1936 E.C and leveled as categories ‘medium or B’ towns of the Oromia Region and a mayor is
appointed to govern the town Administration.
Asset Management has been a key component of the Federal Government’s Urban Growth and
Development Strategy since its inception in 2008. It was a pre-requisite to the ULGDP capacity
building program that ran from 2008-2013, which in turn was part of the government’s Plan for
Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP 2005/06-2009/10). This key
role has been retained under ULGDP II, which is designed to run from 2014-2019, and as such it
has been supporting the government’s Growth and Transformation Plans. The specific
development objective of the ULGDP II is to bring about improved performance in the planning,
delivery and sustained provision of priority municipal services and infrastructure development by
urban local governments. In this respect, the ability to create and operate an Asset Management
Plan is central to both of these outcomes.
While the Asset Management Plan plays a critical role in supporting wider development
objectives, it also plays a role in a local political, economic and social context within the cities
themselves. Urban Infrastructure is expensive to construct and also expensive to maintain. This
makes it important to ensure that the solutions provided are cost effective, as well as meeting the
needs of the urban population. Asset Management provides an integrative approach that links
project-based capital investment planning with long-term operation and maintenance needs
and thereby provides a sustainable management system.
The integrated Asset Management Plan will incorporate any existing preventative maintenance
and risk management programs currently in place. The preventative maintenance component
will ensure that the day-to-day wear and tear of an asset is dealt with to ensure that the asset
can reach its expected useful life. Condition assessment and risk management components ensure
that The City Administration effectively manage the risk of failure through due diligence. Good
asset management results in informed and strategically sound decisions that optimize
investments, better manage risks, and take into account the potential impact of other factors
such as climate change. Through the implementation of an integrated Asset Management Plan,
the city can formalize the process of Asset Management Planning. Through formalization of Asset
Management Planning, the City can ensure it is making the best possible decisions regarding the
construction, operations, maintenance, renewal, replacement, and disposal of all infrastructure
assets. This will allow the City to maximize the benefits, manage risks, and provide satisfactory
level of services to the public in a sustainable manner.
In summary, an Asset Management Plan provides cities with a detailed knowledge of their asset
base. It plays a critical role in empowering the city leadership that enables them to make more
effective strategic investment decisions; and it also empowers residents, by showing them where
the existing infrastructure is situated, and where new infrastructures can be provided. In this way,
the Asset Management Plan is the basic building block of urban development.
A. Key Benefits
It leads to more effective communication with rate payers, elected officials, financial
rating organizations and regulatory agencies;
Avoids problems and potential crises through the proactive utilization of resources;
Raises awareness of the state of the Town’s infrastructure and how it will be replaced;
Facilitates the grant application process by knowing what projects are priority; and
B. Key Principles
Key principles of an Asset Management Plan include:
A business case involving investment choices that are policy driven with trade-offs
among competing priorities.
To undertake Asset Management Plan study there are basic considerations to be reckoned with.
In this regard, the Asset Management Plan should answer the following 10 questions:
Moreover, a good Asset Management Plan should address the following questions:
1. Does the planned infrastructure address the strategic goals and objectives of the City?
(Generally concerned with local economic development, environmental sustainability
and social development);
2. How much will it cost to build and maintain?
3. How will new infrastructure be prioritized to ensure that spending is matched with, and
balanced against, available income?
4. How do we program the construction of new infrastructure?
The above ten questions lead us to formulate ten steps that provides the underpinning structure
for building an Infrastructure Asset Management Plan. By working through this approach in a
systematic way and by providing the outputs specified in each step, cities will be able to produce
a clearly defined and well-constructed Asset Management Plan that provides a basis for
sustainable capital investment planning, maintenance budgeting, staffing needs, planning and
resource allocation. The table below tries to show the description of the 10 steps and their
respective outcomes.
Reduced life cycle cost (i.e. total operating, maintenance and capital resources) of
providing services to residents.
Reduced risk exposure to the Municipality by ensuring that assets are managed in a
manner that matches the risk that their failure represents to the delivery of services.
An informed and transparent decision making process that provides elected officials with
the knowledge that they need to make decisions regarding capital expenditures,
operating costs and revenue requirements (i.e. rate and tax levels).
A mechanism to ensure that the services that are delivered through infrastructure can be
provided at a sustainable level at a cost that is affordable to residents.
Asset Management program also provides the following key benefits to the city of Adolla City:
It leads to more effective communication with rate payers, elected officials, financial
rating organizations and regulatory agencies;
Facilitates the establishment and subsequent implementation of policy objectives and
the related measurement of performance;
Avoids problems and potential crises through the proactive utilization of resources;
Increases openness, transparency and accountability;
Can reduce lifecycle costs;
Allows for better decision-making regarding resource allocation;
Allows for more effective financial planning;
Leads to more efficient data management;
Provides consistent measurable levels of service to the public;
Raises awareness of the state of the Town’s infrastructure and how it will be replaced;
Facilitates the grant application process by knowing what projects are priority; and
Can allow the city/town to better manage risks.
I. Spatial Scope
The spatial scope of the assignment covers the entire space of the city administration with
emphasis on the built-up area of the city. It covers the Seventeen Kebeles of the administration.
The proposed Asset Management Plan focuses on definition, classification, identification &
inventory of assets. To this effect attribute data were collected, organized, mapped and
registered on asset management plan of the city administration. In this regard, the assignment
required linking the condition of public infrastructures with attribute data of every asset category
stated in the urban infrastructure asset management plan manual.
There are four major drivers of social and economic development embedded in the city’s asset
base covered by the AMP. These are:
Thus, a broad and generic definition of asset management (compiled from different sources) that
has been set for Addis Ababa Asset Management Plan (2012) is adopted for Adolla City that is:
This definition, therefore, will enable anybody to create its own approach of asset management
addressing all the necessary concepts and issues with its own existing social, cultural, economic,
political, and administrative framework. Thus, within such framework major issues/concepts of
asset management that always need to be addressed, among others, include the following:
1. Asset: An asset can that be defined as an economic resource even if at the same time it
can also be recognized as a social good.
2. Physical Asset: Physical asset is a critical component of an infrastructure asset. It means
that the asset has a tangible or material presence which impacts directly on the city, its
residents and its environment.
3. Management: Management is the other part of the central term of ‘Asset
Management’, which describes the way that activities are structured to achieve the
objectives of an organization (in this study that refers to Adolla City Administration).
4. Strategic: Strategic is also the other critical component of Management, which implies a
clearly defined direction for the achievement of the desired outcomes.
5. Life: Life refers to the concept of operation duration (as the asset has a fixed duration of
operation with clearly defined start and end points). This implies two things. One is that in
financial terms the value of the asset is continually reducing and consideration has to be
given to its replacement. The second implies that the asset has to be maintained if it is to
last for the entire period of its planned life.
6. Organization: Organization refers to an entity that owns and runs the asset operation.
This links the asset contextually to a specific social unit. It means that asset management is
situated within a social and political context.
7. Purpose: Purpose is the one that links the asset to the goals, which creates a wider value-
based framework for asset management.
Other than these, there are also other minor related terms (which may not be compulsory in this
study) that include:
1. Operations: Operations refers to those works which are mostly of a minor or aesthetic
nature. They do not affect the physical nature or condition of the asset.
2. Maintenance: Maintenance works are the on-going day-to-day work activities
necessary to keep assets at a specific standard, and to prevent early failure or
deterioration. It is expenditure on an asset, which maintains the asset in use, but does not
increase its service potential or life. Assets have a design life, and will be consumed, or
used, at a rate. The rate of asset consumption is represented as a graph of asset condition
versus asset age. This graph is the asset degradation curve. Maintenance activities are
intended to keep the asset operating along the design asset degradation curve. If
Effective and sustainable infrastructure management, and its associated service delivery,
underpins urban government, providing the basis for public health, social equity and economic
development. These are all intrinsic benefits. At the same time there is also a more direct measure
of cost and benefit, which is linked to the asset base that is associated with this infrastructure. In
terms of cost, the infrastructure asset base represents a major capital investment that requires
ongoing recurrent expenditure to manage and maintain. In return for this, there is the direct
benefit, in providing the City Administration with a major asset base that adds immense positive
effect as an added value to the development of Adolla City. In this context the infrastructure
asset base is central to the achievement of the City Government’s vision of Adolla as a safe,
livable and recreation center.
Global definitions put Asset Management Plan (AMP) as ‘a plan developed for the
management of one or more infrastructure asset classes with a view to operating, maintaining
and renewing the assets within the class in the most cost effective manner possible, whilst
providing a specific level of service.’ Likewise, the Terms of Reference (ToR) has defined the issue
(Asset Management Plan) as a way of managing assets (specifically the physical assets) across
their entire life cycle cost and provide for the replacement of the assets at the appropriate point
in time. It is, generally, also defined as “a document (including GIS based location map)
containing or referring to specific asset related data, statements & projections that is drafted to
comply with specific government legislation or (more rarely) in an endeavor to improve asset
management practices within an organization and/or in urban as well as rural spatial units.
1. (Section) I. Building the GIS-Based Management System for The AMP (step I)
General Background
In asset management plan preparation, there will be a management of two data types’ vis-à-vis
spatial/graphical and non-spatial data types. While the spatial data management requires either
Auto-CAD or GIS working environment that of the non-spatial data requires other soft-wares
like Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access. These data types need to be determined and
differentiated in order to allocate the necessary soft-wares and then based on which data
templates of different types have been prepared.
Establishing a GIS operating environment is an important step that should be carried out for a
city for the first time or an existing once to implement Asset Management Plan successfully.
Adolla Weyu city has outsourced a consultancy service of GIS based Infrastructure Asset Inventory
and Management Plan with an open bid. Accordingly; Brave Consultants Plc. won the consulting
service. The consulting firm has conducted detailed inventory of Cities assets using Geographic
Information System (GIS) as platform. Consequently, the consulting firm created the GIS project
in ArcGIS 10.7 software and Microsoft SQL 2016 Software by establishing full interconnected geo-
database System of the assets.
1. The term ‘data’ refers to raw facts. So collecting facts about the road network, such as
the start and end points, length, width, material of surface finish and so on, is described as
data collection. In Asset Management, data is generally synonymous with numbers or
values that describe characteristics of the different elements that make up the various
asset categories (described in section 2).
2. Information, on the other hand, is generally used to describe processed facts, i.e. the
answer that comes out of queries made about the data, and which results in a useful or
meaningful output. Thus, a table that sums up how many kilometers of road the city has
for each surface finish is information. This example provides another way of looking at the
difference between the two terms, where it can be seen that the data provides simple
facts, while the information is actually transmitting a message about those facts. Using the
same example of the road network, an example of data would be the coordinates for the
start and end point of a length of road. Information would be the length of road between
those two points, and, if all the roads have their start and end point coordinates entered
in the database, then one outcome, which would be a useful and important piece of
information, would be the total length of the road network. Thus it is often necessary to
collect, assemble, and process, a large amount of data to provide meaningful information.
This updated AMP uses a Geographical Information System as the platform for managing spatial data.
There is a very good reason for making this choice, which is summed up by the following explanation,
namely that: “The use of spatial relational terms requires the selection of a reference frame and the
construction of a spatial template.” What this statement means is that, to build relationships between
spatial data, two shared components are required.
The first component (the reference frame) is a common (shared) spatial referencing system, so that when
a junction in a road (for example) is given a coordinate, that coordinate is common to, and understood
by, all users of the system. Ethiopia uses the ‘Adindan geographic 2D CRS’ as its base coordinate reference
system (CRS), with the projection being UTM Zone 37N (Transverse Mercator). This is also adapted as the
city’s base coordinate reference system for all the spatial data analysis.
The other important option for a backdrop image for the AMP is high resolution Ortho Photo in
which high resolution Photo Camera will be mounted on an Air Plane and takes Aerial View
Shots of a place. These Snap shots of aerial picture of a place will be processed in
photogrammetry soft wares with a super computer or work station. Currently, the Information
Network Security Agency (INSA) is mandated to perform this task in Ethiopia. Accordingly, the
Ministry of Urban Development and Housing (MUDH) in collaboration with INSA and the
Ethiopian Mapping Agency have captured Ortho Photo of 44% of the country’s coverage.
Adolla Weyu is one of the major cities in which the Ortho Photo captured in 2009E.C and geo-
referencing was done by already established Ground Control Points by Ethiopian Mapping
Agency. The Ortho photo of Adolla is 25*25 Centimeter’s pixel size which very high resolution to
capture any feature on the map for the Infrastructure Asset Inventory and Management Plan
has been used as a back drop image for the inventory of urban infrastructure assets.
The term template is used here to mean a pre-defined relational database structure that enables
different data relating to the asset to be linked together in a logical way so as to enable that data to be
(a) saved for future use; and (b) set out in such a way that it can be processed to provide information.
There are two different types of template that will need to be developed for the Asset Management Plan:
This step of the AMP sets out the relationship between the different sets of spatial and non-spatial
templates and outlines the individual template structures. Each specific data template set is then
referenced to a specific step in the AMP. Those referenced steps will then provide more detailed guidelines
on how to complete the relevant template.
Spatial data is data that is referenced to a specific location, in this case using the coordinate referencing
system described previously. The full list of fields that are associated with this system are termed,
collectively, a spatial data set or a spatial database. Unlike other databases, which would normally be
created in an accessible database software package, the spatial data is embedded within the GIS
software itself. For this reason, it is good practice to limit the number of fields associated with a spatial
database to a minimum.
Another word for attribute would be characteristic. Again using a road as an example there are many
characteristics that can be identified and assembled as data, for example: surface finish; road classification;
year of construction; and so on. None of these characteristics though are directly related to a point in
space; instead they refer to a particular road and exist as a set of attributes that are independent of
location. However, the road that the attributes refer to does have a location, which is defined in the
spatial data set. So the linkage between given attribute data set, and the location is provided by a
creating an identifier that will be common to both the spatial and the attribute data tables. This means
that every element (which in database management terms would be called a ‘record’) that is listed in the
spatial database will require its own, unique, identifier.
With all these variables, it is critical that there should be a common approach to the way in which data is
collected and managed by the city, in order that the outcomes can be compared. This common baseline is
the data management system and its associated set of database templates. The sections that follow
describe the rationale that led to the data management system and the set of data templates that are
used for the AMP.
The introduction described how the objective of building an Asset Management Plan is to be able to
answer a set of key questions about the City’s asset base. The spatial data base defined above answers the
questions: “What assets does the City own?”; “Where are those assets situated?”; “What is their condition?”
and so on. The answers to these questions are derived from the information that is provided by the
analysis of data that is collected and stored in a set of attribute databases. The issue then becomes one of
identifying the best (most effective) database structure to achieve this. On the one hand this is linked to
the different steps that make up the asset management plan process. At the same time though it is also
linked to the way in which physical assets, and in particular infrastructure assets, are managed
operationally.
Figure 5: The relationship between infrastructure components viewed from an operational perspective
e.g. a
road network or a water network. Based upon a knowledge of where the network infrastructure is, which
is obtained from mapping the location of the assets, there are then four components to the management
of a particular network infrastructure:
1. Knowledge base: This involves knowing all the components of the infrastructure and how they
function, so that all associated operations can be managed effectively.
2. Maintenance: This has three elements: knowing the condition of the components; knowing what is
required to maintain them (a list of maintenance activities); and building a maintenance budget.
3. Financing: This involves knowing what the network infrastructure costs to maintain and expand,
and how much it is worth.
4. New Works: This involves knowing what additional components are required to expand the
network, so that the infrastructure continues to perform its function in the future, as per the
Structure Plan for the City. This aspect of management is also linked to CIP.
Thus there are four different core ‘activity areas’ that form part of the wider management of an
infrastructure service, one of which, maintenance, has three sub-areas. And each of these operational
areas will be collecting and using data in a different way, and not always the same type of data.
There are obviously commonalities between the two perspectives. Thus in two of the activity areas,
namely financing and new works, the data that would need to be collected would be the same for both
operational and asset management purposes, and the way that the data would be assembled would be
very similar. In the other two areas however there would be differences.
With the physical component of the data, the collection and use of data for asset management draws a
distinction between the spatial data, i.e. data relating to the location of the asset, which is the primary
concern, and other data associated with the physical aspects of the asset, which is important but less
critical.
With maintenance, all three sub-area of the activity provide important information in their own right.
The first sub-area activity defines where maintenance is required and how severe is the degree of
degradation of the asset. This is data that relates to the condition of the existing network infrastructure
components. The second sub-area activity is quite distinct, with the focus of the question being: what
needs to be done to repair the damage? This defines a set of maintenance activities. Finally, the third sub-
component of the maintenance activity is concerned with building a maintenance plan to restore the
asset (when and how).
From an operational perspective the three sub-areas of the maintenance activity can be integrated, since
it is normally the same department that would be responsible for all three. From an asset management
perspective however, the three sub-areas of activity are quite distinct, and need to be kept separate. So
the collection of data associated with maintenance has to be divided into three distinct data sets.
The second difference is the way in which the physical assets are viewed. Originally infrastructure plans
were produced on paper drawings, which then transformed to a CAD (Computer-Aided Design) based
computer program. In this context, all information related to the physical aspect of the infrastructure
tended to be kept together, which meant that knowledge management tended to encompass virtually
all of the physical and design information associated with the infrastructure.
In asset management the knowledge requirements are different. Here it is important to differentiate the
essential attributes associated with the physical infrastructure from the equally important but less essential
elements that tend to be associated with design parameters. This distinction is even more important when
working in a GIS environment, as will be discussed in the next section. This leads to a different set of
relationships between the infrastructure management components, which are shown in figure 3 below.
This is the relationship between the components when viewed from an asset management perspective.
Figure 6: The infrastructure components viewed from the perspective of data collection
The main change from figure 3 is that, while the condition analysis and the maintenance activities and
cost are two quite distinct data collection exercises, the results can be combined into a single database
structure. All that is required is an addition of three data fields to the database for the condition indicator,
one for the maintenance activity; one for the unit cost of that activity; and one for the total cost of
maintenance that links the unit cost to the quantity derived from the condition assessment.
A relational database is quite different. The basic building block of a relational database is a record. For
asset management, each element of a feature class will constitute a separate, independent record. The
record will then have data, which will be allocated to pre-defined fields, with these being the same for all
the records (i.e. elements) in a particular feature class. The relational data is often confused with a
spreadsheet, because a set of records can be represented as a two-dimensional matrix, where the rows are
composed of records and the columns are composed as fields, so that looks the same as a spreadsheet. In
practice the two are quite distinct, with the relational database being much more versatile.
A spreadsheet is an integrated whole, where the rows and the columns are in a defined relationship. There
is a degree of manipulation possible, but this is limited. So, for example, it is possible to change the order of
the rows by specifying one column in the spreadsheet as the master column. However, the rows themselves
cannot be viewed independently of one another.
With the relational database there is a much greater degree of flexibility because each ‘row’, as seen in
the spread sheet format, is actually a separate, independent record in its own right. Each element of an
asset feature class has its own record. For a given situation we think of what attributes (characteristics) we
would like to define for the components, and these then becomes fields in the database. The flexibility of a
database derives from the fact that each record is independent of the others, although they share the
same fields. That means that they can be queried for information in many different ways.
When building a relational database, the data that needs to be collected, as defined by the fields, will be
different for the different feature classes of assets. For example, the data that is collected about valves
would be different to that collected for an asphalt road, which means that the fields for these two feature
classes will also be different.
The sections that follow outline the nature of the attributes required for the five tabular data sets shown
in figure 4 above. The details of each attribute data set will be expanded upon in the relevant step of the
AMP process.
Asset category
Organizational (i.e. responsibility) data
All relevant data associated with the asset’s physical form
Links to important design data
Links to other information sources (e.g. photos, contract documents)
The construction of the physical attributes data set, termed TDS 1, is carried out under step 3 (described in
section 3).
1.12.2. Condition indicator and maintenance activities and costs data set
The condition indicator data set is constructed around the five-point scale of physical condition associated
with each feature class. The condition of an asset may be described in totality (e.g. a valve) or the asset
may be sub-divided into smaller parts (elements) as is the case with linear feature assets, e.g. roads, water
mains. The completion of the condition indicator data set, termed TDS 4, is carried out under step 4
(described in section r 4).
The maintenance data is built around a set of maintenance activities associated with the different feature
classes of assets. These are defined and then, each year, a list of unit rates (cost per activity) is assigned to
each activity. The activities are then linked to condition so that a budget can be constructed for
maintaining the assets. The completion of the maintenance activities data fields, which form part of TDS
4, was created in step 4. However, the collection and insertion of the data is carried out under step 5
(described in section 5).
then imported and combined with these unit rates to provide a replacement cost. The construction of the
financial data set is carried out under step 6 (described in section 6).
1.13.1. Introduction
There are four distinct components that make up the inventory of assets, each of which requires a specific
plan of action. The first component is the GIS. Here the plan of action involves the creation of a new GIS
‘project’; the establishment of a coordinate system; and incorporation of the backdrop image. The second
component is the creation of a spatial dataset. The third component is concerned with the choice of an
identifier system, and the creation of a system of unique identifiers that can be used for all assets in the
AMP. Finally, the fourth component is that of building the physical attribute data set TDS1, which defines
the physical characteristics of the asset feature class elements.
The basic component of the geo-database is the feature class. This is a homogeneous collection of common
features each having the same spatial representation such as points, lines or polygons and a common set
of attribute column. The geo-database is then further organized into a feature dataset, which are
designed to group together related feature classes so they can participate in specific functionality.
Typically, a feature data set would group together feature classes that have the characteristics of: being
stored in the same coordinate system; participate in topology; be part of a relationship class; be part of
geometric network; and so on. This means that feature data set will contain one or more feature class so
that, when the feature data set is expanded into a catalogue tree, it becomes possible to see all the
feature classes and other data objects. Below (figure 5) is an example of feature data set called ‘water
supply’ which contains all the feature classes of assets in this category as individual features. So there is a
direct correlation between the features of the GIS geo-database and the feature classes. This will then
allow the external (attribute) datasets, described earlier in sections to be incorporated directly into the
GIS. At the same time though, it is important to recognize that the feature classes are not limited to asset
feature classes but can also contain other relevant information. In the expanded feature catalogue tree
below, for example, there is a feature class for pressure zones and one for the old water lines no longer in
use, neither of which are defined feature classes of assets.
Figure 8: Example of a feature catalogue tree for the feature dataset ‘water supply’
1.14. Ensure the image is geo-referenced and link this to the GIS
As mentioned earlier, if a city does not yet have an ortho-rectified image provided by the Federal
Mapping Agency, then the best alternative option for constructing the spatial template is to download an
image from Google Earth. However in this case the city has already a base map in place. Using the base
map, downloaded imagery from Google earth and the alignment process built into the Arc-GIS software
to match points on the image to the points on the ground that enabled ease of the map geo-referencing
the digitized map.
The challenge remains that of maintaining the databases and ensuring the ongoing integrity of the data.
To achieve this, as per the REVISED ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN MANUAL the city require both
hardware and software, and clear guidelines on operating and maintaining the data. This is distinct to GIS
training. Thus city requires the following:
1. Hardware: There should be a dedicated computer in the AMP unit to work with the GIS,
together with an external drive to back up the data and a printer. The external drive should have
a minimum storage capacity of 2GB.
2. Software: Cities should have an official copy of the latest version of ArcInfo, the GIS software
from ESRI.
3. Training: we will provide training in database management and organization for AMP focal
person and supporting staffs.
The municipality of Adolla City should provide the AMP focal person with the computer hardware and
software, together with an operational budget, that will enable the team to carry out their task. This
includes:
A computer with a specification that is sufficiently powerful (in RAM, clock speed and storage
capacity) for the task of running the GIS software.
A computer monitor with a minimum screen size of 32 inches.
A second computer for the team.
An external hard drive with a minimum storage capacity of 2TB.
A printer.
A copy of the latest version of ArcInfo software.
Relational database software compatible with the GIS software.
Supporting software such as documentation, spreadsheets, etc.
Currently Adolla City is one of the reform towns in the region and it has a city administration consisting of
Three kebeles. The Kebeles are named as Kebele 01, Kebele 02, and Kebele 03.
Within the City, there are Departments, called Infrastructure Service Delivery and Management Work
Process; which takes overall responsibility for building and maintaining the Asset Management Plan for
infrastructure assets excluding water supply, and Water Supply and Sanitation Authority; which is
responsible for building and maintaining the Asset Management Plan for infrastructure of water supply.
The head of these departments are directly under the Mayor.
Given the critical importance of the asset management plan to the capital investment program, city
administration has made a lot to build the implementation capacity of these departments with materials
and manpower. In addition to this, the city has established a department called ULGDP coordination
office which is equipped with Materials and technical staff, which is also responsible for building and
maintaining the Asset Management Plan for infrastructure.
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Infrastructure & Public works
Department (ULGDP)
The lack of clear institutional and organizational structures, linked to the needs of the AMP, poses a
serious risk to the long-term success of the AMP process. To a large degree this is due to a lack of guidance
and the fact that the AMP has been introduced as an outcome, rather than as an on-going responsibility.
The move to a GIS-based management system requires a change in attitudes within the cities, with the
implementation of a clearly defined role for the AMP within the city administration, and clear lines of
organizational responsibility. A commitment is also required on the part of departments that are
responsible for categories of assets included in the AMP to provide support to the AMP with respect to the
provision of data and information regarding those categories, and to provide a person whose role will
include liaising with the AMP focal person in that regard.
The implementation strategy begins with the establishment of a sustainable institutional and
organizational structure for the AMP within the city administration, which incorporates clearly defined
roles and relationships for all parties involved with, or contributing towards, the AMP. This involves the
following actions on the part of each city:
1. Defining the AMP team as a formal, recognized, organizational unit within the City
Administration.
2. Defining the AMP unit’s relationship with the City Administration. It is recommended that this
unit be situated in the City Manager’s Office.
3. A staffing plan for the AMP team. The team requires at least two people, an AMP focal
person and an assistant, with the latter being responsible for ongoing survey work. Additional
staff will be required for start-up as mentioned in paragraph 3 below.
4. Providing a job description and ToR for the AMP focal person. In this regard, the role of the AMP
focal person is greatly expanded in the new AMP process.
Step 1: Build the GIS project and manage the GIS system.
Step 2: Take responsibility for the city’s AMP and build linkages with the line departments
having responsibility for the different categories of assets included in the AMP.
Step 3: Build the spatial database and the database of physical properties for all assets.
Summarize the data and provide an analysis of key information.
Step 4: Responsibility for building a condition indicator for all assets, through the completion
of the condition and maintenance database. Provide summaries of the condition of all assets.
Step 5: Working with the line departments to obtain a list of all maintenance activities, for:
routine and periodic maintenance; major maintenance associated with levels 3 and 4
condition; and rehabilitation costs for level 5 condition assets. Responsibility for maintaining
an up-to-date list of maintenance activities for all databases. Adding unit costs and total
costs of all maintenance activities to the condition and maintenance database. Provide
summaries of the cost of all maintenance activities.
Step 6: Working with the line departments and other relevant organizations, obtain and
maintain an up-to-date list of all asset replacement costs, based upon the asset feature
classes. Build the new works database that provides a list of the replacement cost and
residual value of all assets. Provide summary information on these.
Step 7: Working with the CIP team, build the database for new works projects. Provide
summary outputs of these projects.
Step 8: Using the output from step 5, build the maintenance plan database for all
maintenance activities going forward to implementation.
Step 9: Working with the CIP team, convert the budget for new works projects and
maintenance activities to a 3-year rolling program.
Step 10: Track the progress of all approved new works projects and maintenance activities,
using the databases for these created in steps 7 and 8 respectively. Upon completion, convert
project and activities data across to the relevant databases for existing assets. Once sufficient
historical data is available, track the performance of new works project starts against plan,
and the completion of maintenance activities and costs against plan.
5. Clearly defining the roles that all departments, and other administrative units, that are
responsible, operationally, for one or more categories of assets included in the AMP, have with
regard to the AMP. This Involves:
Identifying a person with the department who will be directly responsible for
liaising with the AMP focal person in respect of the categories of assets lying
within their operational responsibility.
Clearly stating the duties of that person to provide information to the AMP focal person
as and when required.
Working closely with the AMP focal person to build the identification codes for all asset
elements in their asset categories.
Supporting the AMP focal person in building the condition indicator for all asset elements
in their asset categories.
Supporting the AMP focal person in building the list of unit rates (costs) for all asset
elements in their asset categories.
Working with the AMP focal person to develop a list of priorities for new works projects
associated with the categories of assets lying within their operational responsibility.
Working with the AMP focal person to develop a list of routine and periodic
maintenance activities associated with the categories of assets lying within their
operational responsibility, and building the table covering the frequency of operation
and the cost of all such activities.
Working with the AMP focal person to develop a list of priorities for maintenance
activities associated with the reduction of the maintenance deficit for each category of
assets lying within their operational responsibility.
2.1.3. The qualifications of the AMP focal person (Training and Skill)
Given the critical role that the AMP focal person plays in the City administration, the position
requires a person with ability, initiative, and a range of different skills. Key skills include:
A good operational knowledge of GIS, and preferably the Arc Info system of GIS. The Federal
Government provides training in GIS specifically for the AMP, but the focal person should have the
pre-requisite knowledge of basic GIS operation to be able to attend this training program.
A good working knowledge of relational database management.
Knowledge of the principles of information and knowledge management.
Knowledge of the basic principles of surveying and the ability to work with maps in a geo-spatial
environment.
A working technical knowledge of infrastructure and buildings.
Knowledge of how infrastructure and buildings deteriorates and how they are maintained.
Integrated with this is a knowledge of how to build cost estimates for new works and maintenance
activities.
An understanding of what constitutes an asset strategy and how to create such a strategy.
In terms of training needs, the above list can be broken down into three broad areas. These are:
The use of GIS to manage large spatial databases with a wide range of physical attributes
attached. This in turn requires a degree of foreknowledge of basic surveying systems.
An understanding of the role of that infrastructure, buildings, and other physical assets perform in
society, including an understanding of both their deterioration processes and the types of
maintenance that is required to repair or renovate them. This incorporates an understanding of
how infrastructure, buildings and other assets are coasted, i.e. what are the major cost
components and how do they relate to provide a final cost for a project or for existing
infrastructure.
An understanding of the principles of information and knowledge management, i.e. how is
information extracted from data in a form that is useful, informative, and able to facilitate
decision-making processes.
This is an eclectic range of skills that will not normally be found in one person. The most useful person
would be one with a background or education in a technical field, such as civil engineering or construction
management, with the latter likely to provide the best fit. This would allow the AMP focal person to build
on their existing technical knowledge to deepen their understanding of area 2 above.
When a city invests in capital assets, the city is creating the drivers of social and economic
development. The challenge for cities is how to allocate a limited capital investment, which is
generally less that the identified needs, in the most effective and efficient way. That is where an
ongoing strategic analysis of the city’s asset base can assist.
In total there are four major drivers of social and economic development embedded in the city’s
asset base covered by the AMP. These are:
Table 2: The allocation of categories of physical assets to the four strategic activity areas
The Movement The Water Supply Environmental Social and Economic
Network Network Services Services
The road network Water supply Urban drainage Abattoirs
Cycle paths Water resources Liquid waste Fire service
Footpaths/ pavements Sanitation Municipal markets
Street lighting Solid waste MSE facilities
Urban Greenery Schools
Parks and play areas Health clinics
Rivers Youth centres
Wetlands Other
Natural areas
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Municipal Administration Buildings are dealt with as a separate activity area and will be discussed later.
The list of asset categories has been distributed among the four strategic activity areas does not
(necessarily) mirror the departmental management structure. For example, the construction of
drains would normally fall under the infrastructure department and be linked to the movement
network. It is important to recognize that the structure of this table has, as its objective, a
strategic analysis and prioritization of projects; and that it is not intended to reflect an
administrative grouping.
Once the city has identified the AMP coordinators for the different operational units, it should
then create a table, within the AMP, that lists the following:
Systems
Once the categories and sub-categories of assets has been clearly defined; then building a
container that will carry the information on the asset is the next step. There are two basic
templates: the spatial template (the spatial data or drawing base) and the information
template (the tabular database).
Yet, as stated on the manual, before the template, it is necessary to have knowledge of where
assets can be found and how they can be located and how the information about them can be
transferred to a database where it can easily be accessed and retrieved. For Successful
undertaking of such tasks, the templates designed on the office have to be tested on the ground
on the targeted pilot area before replicating the experience to large scale inventory of asset
data. Accordingly, pilot test had been done for all inventory formats and invaluable comments
were incorporated together with the client.
By combining the asset information prescribed on the manual, file geo-database was designed to
capture asset information and the corresponding elements on the database for the smooth
transfer and integration of tabular and spatial data base templates. Using ArcGIS 10.7.1 software,
the geo-database is organized with File geo-database named ‘Adolla AMP’.
The Adolla City AMP geo-database is structured using attribute domain and subtype. The logic
behind organizing data in attribute domain is to set the permissible value of a field type or to
constrain the value allowed for any particular attribute for a table, feature class or sub-type.
This is quite useful to constrain the allowable value of a field type in a situation where the same
feature class data entry is handled by different person. For instance, road material attribute is
constrained to the following values:
Besides, a person can easily manage data entry by choosing from the look up table instead of
consuming time for entering value just by writing; which obviously is different from one person to
another. For instance, if the data is not organized according to the aforementioned approach of
geo-database in uncontrolled manner, one person may write mistakenly “concrete road” as
‘concrte road’, the others ‘concret’ and so on, which makes difficult the integrity of data for
generating refined report on asset management plan. In conclusion, the organization of data as
mentioned above makes data entry to be simple as one can easily choose the values from the
already set look up table; even without having user interface system.
The other advantage of attribute domain is sharing of the same attribute by different feature
class. For instance, the general condition assessment of all asset categories is modeled (coded) as:
1(Very Good), 2(Good), 3(Moderate) ,4(Poor) and 5(Very Poor) that is shared from the
geo-database by all feature class of Road, Walkways, Drainage, Land Sliding Retaining and
Flood Controlling Wall to describe the condition of the given infrastructure asset.
So, the attribute domain enforces data integrity by maintaining common values to share same
information that can be performed by different persons and different attributes of different
feature class to share the same attribute so as to realize consistency, validity and integrity of data
A tabular database has been compiled for an infrastructure asset categories and sub-categories.
The road is classified in to Asphalt Road, Cobble Road, Gravel Road, Red Ash Road, Large Block
Stone, Earth Pressed Road, Natural Earthen road, Concrete Bridge and Culvert were classified by
road surface material. A specific sub-category of the asset, say asphalt road, consists of many
fields or attributes such as carriage width in meter, left and right carriage way Kerbing material
and width, date of construction, road condition and so on. The route is also divided along section
of road in to a number of discrete sections for ease of maintenance and quality definition for
road, walkways, drainage and street signpost.
Similarly, for water distribution line, the main subset of the distribution line is categorized in to
DCI, GS, HDPE and PVC by material type. The same is true for point data like Street light where
the left and right side point data is captured including attributes of street light type
(Incandescent, Florescent, High Pressure Magnesium Light, High Pressure Sodium Light and Light
Emitting Diode) using hand held GPS.
A similar situation would apply to the linear elements of the water supply category. So, for
example, using the sub-category of water, steel distribution mains, and a similar set of variations
would apply, defining different elements (segments) of the sub-category by length, class and
diameter.
For further elaboration of the approach for tabular database template pursuant to operational
manual, two examples are provided. The first one let us take a linear element of Road, its
category is Road and Movement Network, its sub-category is Cobble or Small Block Paved Road,
element is described by defining two node points (Node from, Node to), one defining the start
while the other defining the end respectively. The route is uniquely identified by Route id. In the
same manner, let us take a point element of pump, its category is Water Supply Network, its
sub-category is pump, its specific geographic location is identified by x, y coordinates and
described according to pipe material, dimension, discharge amount, year installed and so on. The
element is identified by unique number.
The spatial and non-spatial databases are linked with unique id, which makes the integration
versatile to accommodate data within the same geo-database system. More indicators are
developed for infrastructure asset management plan based on the operational manual and
tailoring variables to the context of Adolla City. The following table depicted below shows sample
road network and drainage tabular database templates used for Adolla City Asset Inventory
and management plan.
Table 4: Example of Tabular Database for Road Network Category and Sub-Category
Field Name Data Type Description of the Field Name
Route ID Text Route Identification Number
Node From Text Node From
Node To Text Node To
Start Name Text Node Starting Reference Name
End Name Text Node Ending Reference Name
Length From Double Length From
Length To Double Length To
RoadMat Text Road Material
Length Double Actual Length in Metre
Deterioration Type Text Type of Deterioration
Deterioration Area Double Deterioration Area in m2
Condition Text Condition Assessment
Carriageway Width Double Carriage Width
CarraiageWayType Text Carriage Way Type
Kerbing Material Left Text Kerbing Material Left
Kerbing Left Width Double Kerbing Left Width in Centimetre
Kerbing Material Right Text Kerbing Material Right
Kerbing Right Width Double Kerbing Left Right in Centimetre
Construction Year Long Integer Date/Year Construction
Maintenance Year Long Integer Maintenance Year
Ownership Text Ownership of Road
transfer and integration of tabular and spatial data base templates. Using ArcGIS 10.2.1 software,
the geo-database is organized with File geo-database named ‘Adolla AMP’. The Adolla City
AMP geo-database is structured using attribute domain and subtype. The logic behind
organizing data in attribute domain is to set the permissible value of a field type or to constrain
the value allowed for any particular attribute for a table, feature class or sub-type. This is quite
useful to constrain the allowable value of a field type in a situation where the same feature class
data entry is handled by different person. For instance, road material attribute is constrained to
the following values:
SurfaceMaterial | Index
The other advantage of attribute domain is sharing of the same attribute by different feature
class. For instance, the general condition assessment of all asset categories is modeled (coded)
as:1(Very Good), 2(Good), 3(Moderate),4(Poor) and 5(Severe) that is shared from the geo-
database by all feature class of Road, Walkways, Drainage, Land Sliding Retaining and
Flood Controlling Wall to describe the condition of the given infrastructure asset.
So, the attribute domain enforces data integrity by maintaining common values to share same
information that can be performed by different persons and different attributes of different
feature class to share the same attribute so as to realize consistency, validity and integrity of
data.
Subtypes are also implemented for categorizing data by creating subsets of features in a feature
class instead of creating separate features. Subtypes are implemented by creating coded value
and by associating the field of data type short or long integer. This integer value each represents
a feature in the sub-type. For instance, water distribution line feature class is disaggregated into
subset of features, based on material type, identified by unique coded value of: PVC (1), GS (1),
HDPE (2), and DCI (3). This makes easier the editing process because when one edits a field with
coded value domain, a drop down list of all the domain values appears. The template allows
choosing from the look up table of each feature class, which makes updating, editing and
locating complex asset data more easily; and more versatile system is implemented to maintain
data integrity.
The spatial operating environment, which the consulting firm uses for this assignment, is GIS and
Specifically Dynamic Segmentation tool from Linear Referencing extension of ArcGIS
10.7.1 software. This tool has so many advantages which are due to its versatility for data entry,
management, updating, and analysis; and besides for water assets; the company used Network
Analyst extension of ArcGIS 10.7.1.
Linear Referencing: is the method of storing geographic locations by using relative positions
along a measured linear feature. Distance measures are used to locate events along the line. In
most data models, linear features split at intersections where they connect with two or more-line
features and frequently also split where key attribute values change, such as a change in the
road name. However, users often want to record many additional attributes about the roads.
This could require that roads may split into many tiny segments at each location where attribute
values change. As an alternative, these situations can be handled as linear referencing events
along the roads
Figure 12 Storing Multiple Sets of Attributes for a Feature performed using Linear Referencing
Linear referencing is used for many reasons. The following are the two primary reasons:
Many locations are recorded as events along linear features—for example, locations of
traffic accidents are recorded using a convention such as "27 meters east of reference mile
marker 35 along State Highway 287." Many sensors record conditions along linear features
using measures of distance or time along the lines—along pipelines, along roads, along
streams, and so forth.
Linear referencing is also used to associate multiple sets of attributes to portions of linear
features without requiring that underlying lines be segmented (split) each time that
attribute values change. For example, most road centerline feature classes are segmented
where three or more road segments intersect and where the road names change.
Dynamic Segmentation: is the process of computing the map locations of events stored and
managed in an event table using a linear referencing measurement system and displaying them
on a map. The term dynamic segmentation is derived from the concept that line features need
not be split (in other words, "segmented") each time an attribute value changes; you can
"dynamically" locate the segment. Using dynamic segmentation, multiple sets of attributes can be
associated with any portion of an existing linear feature independently of where it begins or ends.
These attributes can be displayed, queried, edited, and analyzed without affecting the
underlying linear feature's geometry.
Once the list of asset categories that will be included in the city’s AMP has been defined, the next
step is to link these to the GIS system. Each feature class should be tested against the GIS Protocol
to ensure that it comprises only one of the three defined features. Thus on the wider road a
culvert might be defined as a line feature, since it is of sufficient length to give it a start point and
an end point, while on a narrow access road a culvert might be defined simply as a point feature,
since its short length does not warrant defining both a start and an end point. In this situation
there are two options available. In this Adolla City AMP; culverts have been defined as a line or
polygon feature.
When working in GIS operating environment it is necessary to follow a specific GIS Protocol with
regard to terminology. The construct of this protocol was shown in Figure 5. This Protocol states
that all spatial elements spatial must belong to one of just three types of feature. These three
features (feature types) are:
As it is clearly shown in the above diagram that the sub-categories have to be linked with one of
the above mentioned four blocks in the diagram, which means each sub-categories of assets
have to be classified and linked either by one of the three feature classes (point or poly-line or
polygon) or as non-spatial attribute data. This is in line with the definition of a sub-category
defined in the previous section (Section II). Accordingly, it becomes possible to allocate sub-
categories of assets to one of these four blocks. The allocation of some examples is shown in table
4 below. This table also includes the list of maps that support the infrastructure geo-database.
Finally the table has a fourth column that lists the non-spatial data associated with the
infrastructure asset base.
Based on such recommendation (of GIS application), the asset management templates (for 13
categories and 111 sub-categories) have been developed and applied for this study. This has been
done as follows:
The use of a GIS for the management of infrastructure assets brings its own set of requirements
with respect to the way in which data is structured. The following Figures (Figure 11 and 12) show
the asset database flow diagram, how sub-categories have to meet the needs of both the
operational and financial units, and how the sub-categories are situated on top of the GIS
operating environment.
City Administration
Asset Sub-Categories
Sub-Category of
Assets
GIS Database
Individual Asset
The sub-categories of assets integrate with the GIS by following a Protocol that defines the way in
which sub-categories of assets are linked to what are termed in GIS as feature classes. This has
depicted in the following figure (Figure 13).
The data collection processes for steps 3-6 of the AMP remain virtually identical to those in the existing
manual. The changes in the updated manual relate to data storage and the presentation of the data, i.e.
the information output.
The updated manual is accompanied by a model GIS that includes comprehensive templates for all the
databases used for the AMP. In steps 3-6 this includes: a spatial database; a database for storing the
physical attributes of all feature classes of assets included in the AMP manual; a database for storing all
data associated with the condition, maintenance activities and maintenance costs associated with all
feature classes of assets included in the AMP manual; and a database for calculation and for storing data
relating to the replacement cost and residual value of all assets.
The updated manual, with its new datasets, will require a new asset inventory and a new condition
assessment, although in some existing cities it may be possible to migrate the existing data across to the
new physical properties database, depending upon how the existing data is stored. This initial data
collection exercise will require a significant input of time. It is recommended that cities take on 2-3
additional persons (depending upon the size of the city), for a period of 2 months, to assist in this process.
These persons should have a basic understanding of data collection, and could be students.
The second area where the manual has introduced new outputs is the presentation of information. The
primary output from the original manual was a list of tables of figures, with summary tables of key data.
The use of GIS, with its ability to query the databases, expands the role of the AMP focal person, so that
(s)he becomes a manager of information and knowledge in a much broader sense than was previously
the case. This means that the focal person is now able to provide a strategic analysis and an interpretation
of the data. This becomes a very important tool that cities can use to improve their decision making with
respect to both asset management and capital investment planning
2.6.4. Creating the information base for new projects and maintenance activities
Part 3 of the updated AMP manual has changed significantly from the previous manual. It now has two
quite distinct goals: the first to manage the data associated with new works projects (step 7); and the
second to manage the data associated with all maintenance activities (step 8).
The AMP focal person is a member of the CIP team. In the updated manual, the role of the AMP focal
person in step 7 is to support the CIP team in building and maintaining the database for all new works
projects. This role also involves contributing to the process of prioritizing projects by incorporating an asset
strategy into the prioritization process. To be able to perform this task, the AMP focal person should have
a good understanding of how to apply project prioritization based upon the contribution that projects
make to the four strategic activity areas defined in the AMP.
With the updated manual, the AMP focal person has an enhanced responsibility with regard to managing
data associated with maintenance planning; and with prioritizing those activities. The AMP focal person
has to be able to liaise effectively with all line departments and be able to discuss maintenance needs with
those departments.
Step 9 of the AMP manual, dealing with the conversion of approved new works projects and
maintenance activities to a three-year rolling program is similar to the previous manual. Step 10,
however, which deals with implementation, is significantly different.
With step 10, the AMP focal persons play a much greater role in monitoring both new works projects and
maintenance activities through their implementation phase to the point where they are integrated into
the relevant databases for existing assets. It is important to stress that the focal persons are not responsible
for implementation – that is the role of procurement and project management specialists; they are
responsible for monitoring, tracking and recording the progress of new works projects and maintenance
activities.
To be effective, this role requires two conditions. The first is that there is cooperation from those in the city
that are directly responsible for implementation. The second is that the AMP focal persons have a basic
understanding of contract management, so that they know the stages of the project cycle and can track
projects.
Following from this, the implementation strategy for the AMP is built around a hierarchy (from the lowest
to the highest level) of: data management; information management; and knowledge management.
a) Data management
The AMP should have primary responsibility for building and managing all databases associated with the
City’s assets.
b) Information management
While working with other parties, and particularly with the CIP team, it is the AMP that should be
responsible for defining the way in which information is generated from the asset-related databases. So
while the generation of tabular data remains a primary output of the AMP, it is no longer the sole output,
as was the case previously. Rather, the way in which information is presented should be expanded, to
provide a wider range of information about the extent and nature of the asset base. The most effective
way of doing this is by the use of charts of different types, such as pie and bar charts. The pie charts in
particular are a valuable means of providing comparative data.
c) Knowledge management
Knowledge management is concerned with providing information in a way that facilitates a broader
decision-making process. In this context, the use of the four strategic activity areas defined in the AMP
manual, namely: the movement network; the water supply network; environmental services; and social
and economic services; becomes a crucial component of the knowledge management system. Showing the
extent to which investment, both past and future, is allocated across these four strategic activity areas
allows decision-makers to link investment more equitably to achieve a variety of social and economic
objectives. It also provides the basis for the cities to build an asset strategy, by encouraging a review of the
value of assets and the role that each assets serves in meeting social and/or economic objectives. Of
particular relevance in this context is the extent to which both new capital projects and maintenance
activities linked to exiting assets, can be used to generate employment and support the development of
small and micro enterprise
An identifier (ID) is an alphanumeric string (a short list of characters that can include both letters
and numbers) that is attached to a single element of a feature class of asset and refers only to
that element. Because of this it is unique within a data set; hence it is termed a unique identifier.
The identifier does not contain all of the attribute data for an element; that is provided in the
database. The objective of the identifier is to be able to locate the element in both the spatial
and the tabular databases. It is also important to be able to distinguish the category and feature
class to which the element belongs. This is particularly important for linear elements, where
different services are provided in the same vicinity (e.g. a road, a water main and an electrical
cable for example).
Both the spatial and the tabular databases will create a unique identifier automatically each
time a new record is created. This is termed an auto-ID. While this auto-ID could be used
internally by the GIS software as the main identifier for an element, using it more widely is not
recommended, since this would have a number of serious disadvantages. Firstly, the auto-ID is
simply a number, making it difficult to link, mentally, with a specific element of infrastructure.
Secondly each new database will generate a new auto-ID table, so there is an immediate
duplication, i.e.; the same element will have different auto-IDs in different databases. To
overcome these constraints, it is necessary to create a unique identifier system that is tailored
specifically to meet the needs of the asset management plan.
There is currently no single system of identifiers used for assets in Ethiopia. As a result, different
groups may already be generating identifier systems for the same assets. For example, the
Bureaus of Finance and Economic Development use Pin Codes for asset identification. While it
would be ideal to have only one identifier system for all uses, it is also important to recognize that
an identifier system that has been created for a specific use may not be suited to another
purpose.
As a result, the manual has produced a different identifier system, designed specifically for the
Asset Management Plan. This unique identifier, which is described below, has been tested in a
number of cities and has shown itself to be robust and versatile. At the same time some minor
changes have been made to the individual components of the identifier in response to user
feedback. The unique identifier is made up of four parts and, while it has been created
specifically for asset management, it has also been designed to provide an interface with other
users of the asset infrastructure and services that are likely to use the information generated by
the asset database system. The unique identifier is made up of four parts.
Identifier Component 1: This is a 3 character, alphabetic, code that is linked to the asset
category (with the first two letters) and the feature class (with the Third letter). This provides a
quick internal referencing system for the AMP itself. A list of codes for all categories and feature
classes included in the manual is listed in table 7 below.
Where:
1 Primary Road PR
2 Secondary Road SR
3 Collector Road CR
4 Local Road LR
5 Foot Path FP
00 : - Represents Sub_City
The list of codes used for the first block of the identifier
A table of codes used for the first block of the identifier. If the city has adopted the list of codes
proposed in the AMP manual then this would be shown in the table.
Table 9: The list of category and feature class codes used for block 1 of the unique identifier (example)
boundary
Health Centres HC Valve VA External site boundary EB
Youth Centres YC Access box AC Internal boundary IB
Municipal Buildings MB
A well-functioning inventory system is a core stone for proper asset management. The inventory
of Adolla City AMP mainly contains the information what the city administration owns, the type
of assets and their specific locations. The inventory carried out through on site intensive survey for
core infrastructure services (road, drainage and associated assets), market centers, abattoir,
administration and public buildings, and the historical sites. The tabular inventory dataset
contains the type of the asset, the material from which the asset is made, the time of construction
or purchase, the size and the place where it is located, in addition to the condition assessment
which is discussed independently on condition assessment section.
Inventory of the asset data is in general applied for both Spatial and Non-Spatial Data types
managed by GIS and Tabular Databases. The tabular data bases, comprising various related
attribute data, which are presented in SQL Database system and the summary of findings
discussed under this section.
It is known that contemporary asset management system practices showed that management
and planning of assets data is of more manageable, easy and sustainable if they are
computerized using Geographic Information System (GIS) for defining geo-referenced locations,
storing attribute (spatial) data, measuring, displaying data on maps and updating/revising the
data any time whenever it is needed. Accordingly, due to such reason and based up on the client
request, GIS application is selected for this purpose and is recommended for future use too. It is
also important to note that, such GIS application is a nascent technology and methodology that
has been successfully used in various aspects of this asset management plan preparation that
include broad areas of data collection, data storage, data manipulation and analysis, and data
mapping. And hence all the spatial data have been collected, stored, manipulated/analyzed and
mapped.
In recent past times training in GIS has got due attention and hence the use of GIS for their
spatial data application is improving from time to time though problem of license is a critical
bottleneck. In fact, they are using different GIS applications, Database formats, Software and
Hardware, and Web application. For instance most of which are currently using that of the
ArcGIS 9.3 Software while ArcGIS 10.2 is already in the market with wide range of modifications.
ArcGIS 10.2 is the newly released GIS software from the ESRI suite of products which is full
inclusive of all the functionalities of ArcGIS 9.x versions. Apart from its being the latest technology,
it is interoperable with almost all software including the ArcGIS Suite. It is seamlessly integrated in
all platforms in ArcGIS for Server, ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS for Mobile with a support
package from ESRI inc. and Partners in the region. Thus, ArcGIS 10.2 (10.3.1) is the
recommended version for Asset Management Plan of Adolla City. But it is important to
note here that it require extensive training and on-going use of such system for asset
management work in order to properly operate in such new GIS environment.
As mentioned above there has not been any GIS management framework in the city
administration and hence individuals are working in ArcGIS independently to meet their own
needs. It is, therefore, creation of an overall management framework for GIS with well-defined
protocols of use (that requires a metadata structure; user accessibility permissions; storage
systems; licensing agreements and inter-relationships with other GIS users in different offices and
units within the city) for proper infrastructure management is the other critical issue.
It is important to build institutional based use of ArcGIS applications and environment in all
offices and operational units and to create a ‘culture’ of geospatial data management at all
levels (from top management to lower operational levels) within the City Administration. At the
same time there is a need to rationalize the programs and systems that are used to manage all
spatial and geospatial data and capacitate operators of these systems in all offices and units. In
general, the Asset Management Plan requires building a sustainable GIS system for infrastructure
asset management by creating an integrated data structure at all levels and hence this is the
other critical issue to be considered.
The data structure for infrastructure has been designed taking into account the multiple uses of
that data. It is due to the fact that some part of the infrastructure is common to (or required by)
a number of different operational units in the City Administration. For example, the road center
lines and the water network are used for engineering design, for urban planning, and for the
cadaster system. As a result, some of the data will be shared with other Offices and Units within
the City Administration. This means that the spatial information associated with the roads used
for road design; road maintenance; operational management of the traffic system; the Structure
Plan; and the Cadaster. So, on the one hand, there is the need to look at the interaction between
different bodies within the City Administration. At the same time, and of equal importance, is the
need to structure the database so that it meets the needs of different groups within the same
organization, for example, New Works Design, Operations, and Maintenance. Each of these
groups will have different requirements, for example the condition indicators will be used by
Maintenance as a basis for maintenance planning but not necessarily by other users of the
database. The database structure has to take all of these considerations into account.
The current approach to data collection and storage is one that makes use of large, GIS-linked,
databases with a comprehensive range of data spread across a large number of fields
(attributes) all situated within one single database table. Not only does this make sharing
difficult, it increases the possibilities for error generation within the system, and makes ongoing
database management difficult. It is not necessary to attach all attribute data directly to the GIS.
Information stored independently in a tabular/relational database, such as for example Microsoft
Access, can easily be linked to the GIS provide it has a common field that has the same attribute
data as the GIS database, which is most commonly the unique identifier (ID) attribute field. The
leads to an alternative model, based upon a devolved database structure. Such a structure
would provide for the diverse needs of the organizations working with the asset management
plan by integrating all the components of the AMP into the data structure. This system would
operate with four levels of data that stated as follows.
This provides the data that is directly associated with the GIS system, and is termed as
the core data set. This core geo-database has been kept as simple as possible so as to
ensure the integrity of the basic spatial data and minimize errors in data entry. The
resulting GIS data set is limited to just three table variations, based upon the core
feature classes of ‘point data’, ‘line data’ and ‘polygon data’. This means that each of
the 111 sub-categories will be allocated to just one of these three. This is in line with the
defined characteristics of sub-categories described earlier, and each sub-category can
only contain data associated with one feature class. Thus, the attribute fields are as
shown in the following table (Table 5). Thus, each asset is given a sub-category code
attached to a unique ID number; and X and Y coordinates. There is a single set of
coordinates for a point (point data) or a centroid (polygon data); and two sets of
coordinates, representing the start and end points of the line for line data. The GIS
program then generates the key dimension (for lines and polygons) automatically. This
means that the GIS database is derived solely from one-time entries of data and that
data can only be changed if there is a modification to the infrastructure element
coordinates; otherwise it remains locked to access.
7 Auto-generated length
Each sub-categories has its own layer in the GIS environment, so that each one can be
viewed separately. In addition there are also a further four layers allocated to different
types of spatial boundaries, together with one layer for the river system. This means that
the GIS system currently has a total of 115 data layers. There may also be some temporary
layers included, such as, for example, roads that are shown on the Structure Plan but not
yet constructed.
All of the remaining data (non-spatial data) associated with the infrastructure assets
should store independently, in separate, tabular (relational) databases, termed as data
sets. Hence, a number of different data sets have been created using Microsoft SQL
Database System, which can also be linked directly to ArcGIS, as they have similar data
management system (DMS). For each data set there will be a common ID field that will
then link the relevant database tables, i.e. the database table for a specific sub-category
of assets, to each other. This ID field also mirrors the GIS database ID field, so that each
tabular database can be joined to the GIS database whenever the information it contains
are required for analysis of maintenance database (TDS-4), Valuation and Finance
database (TDS-2) in GIS database system as specified on revised AMP manual. .
This provides the information associated with each asset and is divided into two data sets:
1. One containing the physical and spatial attributes data Tabular Data Set (TDS1).
This, on the other hand, contains all the physical and spatial data associated with
the infrastructure element of a particular sub-category. This database will link
across all offices with different ID systems at the same time that contain a common
link ID.
2. The other containing all associated Financial Data that comprises Cost and Value
(TDS 2). This, on the other hand, contains financial information used for accounting
and valuation purposes. All information relating to the cost of an asset is kept
here. This dataset also contains a field that can be used for the Asset Pin Code,
which will link the asset to the city’s accounting system.
However, it is important to note that if the unit cost data is highly variable for a number
of sub-categories, it has to be integrated based on a more comprehensive data base
system such as MS SQL or MySQL.
This level integrates the maintenance of the infrastructure into the database through the
use of single tabular data sets. This is built within Microsoft Excel and has also two parts:
1. The first contains information pertaining to the condition of the asset. This part
of the data set provides the description of condition indicators for each sub-
category, based upon a five-point scale and a three point scale (only for
building), and has a field for the condition index, that will apply to every asset.
2. The second part contains information pertaining to maintenance activities. This
provides a description of standard maintenance procedures associated with
each sub-category of asset, and a table that links one or more of these
procedures to each of the condition indicators/levels. There is then a field for
unit rates (cost) associated with each procedure, and a field that integrates
unit cost and procedures, thereby enabling maintenance cost to be generated
for each asset. The outcome is a comprehensive maintenance budget of the
entire asset base.
Therefore, ultimately it is important to create a new data set (TDS 4) that details the
maintenance planning process. Such as data set would record all maintenance activities carried
out and feedback the results to update directly into the condition indicator component of TDS 3
This level is proposed for future development, to integrate the new infrastructure into the
existing asset database. It would ideally comprise three tabular data sets:
To sum it up, Table 6 below provides a summary of the seven major data sets that together
could provide a comprehensive system of geo-spatial data management for the long-term
operation of the Infrastructure Asset Management Plan.
GIS Data Set Core spatial data providing coordinates and the primary
measurement
Tabular Data Set 1 Attribute Data associated with the sub-category, feature or non-
spatial asset
Tabular Data Set 2 The data on the cost and value of the asset
Tabular Data Set 3 The data set providing the condition indicator for the asset as well
as the asset maintenance requirements and budget
Tabular Data Set 4 The data set linkage maintenance planning back to the asset base
Tabular Data Set 5 The data set associated with planned future work
Tabular Data Set 6 The data set incorporating all planned work that has been
approved
Tabular Data Set 7 The data set of work under construction
It is worth to note here in the final juncture that the above descriptions specifically refer to the
spatial data base sub-categories and hence there are other non-spatial data (like plant,
machinery and vehicles) that will also have an attribute data set (TDS 2) and a cost and value
data set (TDS 3).
The asset data inventory structure is of two types; that are the spatial infrastructure data types,
which is managed within the GIS or CAD environment; and other infrastructure data types
(facilities, vehicles, plant and machinery), which is managed within the framework of non-spatial
(relational or tabular) database with Microsoft SQL 2016 Database System.
Likewise, the inventory of buildings and other non-spatial data (facilities, vehicles, plant,
machinery, and etc) is made through a systematic survey which was carried out for all
infrastructure related facilities, vehicles, plant, machinery and etc in all offices and units.
To this end asset data were collected in one or more of the following ways:
As some of the collection methods are more reliable than others, reliability of gathered data can
also be rated, based on the rating criteria: high, medium, low. Here it is required to develop a
written protocol of asset data collection and asset hierarchy. It is also required to develop Asset
Data Collection Forms. Different forms have been developed for different asset categories, as
each asset category has specific characteristics that need be described.
qualitative judgments. Effort was made by the consulting firm to review several documents
related to measurement of qualitative or physical condition of infrastructure. However, none of
the documents provide measurement which is not subject to subjectivity. In this regard, a sense of
understanding (consensus) is also needed between the consultant and the client.
In conducting our studies we have set five measuring categories – Very good, good, Fair,
Poor, and Very poor; and all the infrastructures would qualitatively be described in terms of
these measuring categories. For example, in case of describing our roads qualitatively, the
standard width of our roads (in accordance to MUDC asset management manual) is 7mts.; and
for the sake of convenience we would assess the conditions of our roads every 700m 2 ( i.e. 7mt.
width x 100mt. length). This will enable us to exhaustively look into the conditions of the roads.
The following cyclic diagram shall illustrate how the data have been collected, verified, encoded,
mapped and finally tested for its accuracy. Where defects were suspected, the data have been
collected again.
Data
Verification
Data Data
Collection Encoding
Data Data
Testing Mapping
There are four main components of GIS application software: geographic processing, RDMS
(relational database management system), spatial analysis utilities, and graphic user interface
(GUI). The goals and objectives are critical in determining the data that will be recorded in the
GIS database. Relationships must be established correctly between spatial feature classes and
non-spatial feature classes. When data are plotted correctly, classes of both spatial and non-
spatial features will be accessible in GIS. This strategy combines an AMS with a GIS geodatabase.
• Asset hierarchy
• Asset classes
• Asset definition
For the purpose of this Asset Management plan, sample zones have been selected, and the data for
the infrastructures in these zones have been encoded in to the data base. Since the data base is
specially designed for this specific purpose, we have tested its accuracy and reliability, and finally
proposed the use of it for the city municipality’s asset management plan.
The following list shall explain the features of the Data Base Management System (DBMS):
A. The System provides data definition facilities (DDL and Data Dictionary)
B. The system provides facilities for storing, retrieving and updating data
C. The system supports multiple view of data
D. The system provides facilities for specifying integrity constraints
E. The system provides facilities for controlling access of data
F. The system allows simultaneous access and update by multiple users
G. The system provides facilities for database recovery
H. The system provides facilities for database maintenance
I. The system can serve the whole regional government if hosted over the internet
This includes preparation of a comprehensive data and information management system that
encompasses the entire physical and social infrastructures of the city.
By classifying each municipal asset to their main and sub-categories, i.e. network infrastructure
asset categories, it was broken down into sub-categories and municipal service facilities as is seen
in the following table:
4. Environmental Service.
5. Movable Asset.
1.Inventory of Movement Network
Inventory of Road
Service component Unit of Quantity (to be
measurement provided)
Land areas within the city boundary km2 28.25
Equivalent (7m width) length of road Km 112.416
Total area within the road reserve km2 78.6
Percentage of the city area occupied by the road % 2.8
reserve
Table 13: Summary Information Required for the Road Asset Category
Road Percentage
Cobble
Gravel
Earthen
Total
In terms of construction material, close observation at Table below revealed that from the total
length of all roads Gravel Road Covers 61.507Km (54.71%) Followed Earth Pressed Road with a
total length of 12.58 km,(11.19%) and the remaining 6.01 Km (6%) of road Surface is Paved with
Asphalt road which is the Extension of the main Road, and Corbel Stone, with the length of
0.37Km; and 7.789 km respectively.
Table 13 Summery of Pedestrian walkway by Surface Type and Equivalent Length by herrarcy
Type of pole
300
250
200 Series1
150
100
50
0
wooden steel Concrete
1500m3 Service…
Water Supply…
Water Supply…
325m3 clear…
Gravity Main (u…
Submersible…
150m Elevated…
Concur it…
Office and…
Metal Sheet…
Roto reservoir…
Generators
Public Tap (Bono)
Bore hole
Submersible Pumps
total of 19 administrative buildings and related services are inventoried that are located at a
total area of 4,805.00 square meter of land. Below is the summary of the inventoried
administrative building assets.
1,200.00
Admin office
1,000.00
800.00 02 Kebele
600.00
400.00 Adarash
200.00 03 Kebele
-
01 Kebele
Admin 02 Adarash 03 01 Adola
office Kebele Kebele Kebele woyu Adola woyu T.water office
T.water
office
Axis Title
S/N Name of the Asset Subcategory Bldg Bldg Number of Total Bldg Number of
ID No function Floor (G+) floor area
Rooms Blocks
109 Oda Adola E.school s.013A C.room G+0 112.00 4 1
110 Oda Adola E.school s.013B C.room G+0 112.00 4 1
111 Oda Adola E.school s.013C C.room G+0 112.00 4 1
112 Oda Adola E.school s.013D C.room G+0 112.00 4 1
113 Oda Adola E.school s.013E Office G+0 84.00 6 1
114 Oda Adola E.school s.013F C.room G+0 126.00 4 1
115 Oda Adola E.school s.013G Toilet G+0 36.00 2 1
Total Floor area 694.00
116 fence 41,386.00
117 Adola high school 2 s.021A Library G+0 224.00 1
118 Adola high school 2 s.021B C.room G+0 248.00 4
119 Adola high school 2 s.021C C.room G+0 248.00 4
120 Adola high school 2 s.021D C.room G+0 248.00 4
121 Adola high school 2 s.021E C.room G+0 248.00 4
122 Adola high school 2 s.021F C.room G+0 248.00 4
123 Adola high school 2 s.021G C.room G+0 248.00 4
124 Adola high school 2 s.021H Lab G+0 266.00 1
125 Adola high school 2 s.021I Lab G+0 266.00 1
126 Adola high school 2 s.021J Office G+0 218.00 8
127 Adola high school 2 s.021K Toilet G+0 54.00 2
Total Floor area 2,516.00
128 fence 49,378.00
S/N Name of the Asset Subcategory Bldg Bldg Number of Total Bldg Number of
ID No function Floor (G+) floor area
Rooms Blocks
129 Oda high school s.012 C.room G+0 224.00 4 1
130 Oda high school s.013 Toilet G+0 36.00 2 1
131 Oda high school s.014 C.room G+0 224.00 4 1
132 Oda high school s.015 C.room G+0 224.00 4 1
133 Oda high school s.016 Library G+0 178.00 2 1
134 Oda high school s.017 Lab G+0 178.00 2 1
135 Oda high school s.018 C.room G+0 224.00 4 1
136 Oda high school s.019 C.room G+0 224.00 4 1
S/N Name of the Asset Subcategory Bldg Bldg Number of Total Bldg Number of
ID No function Floor (G+) floor area
142 Adola E. school s.001 Library G+0 192.00 3 1
143 Adola E. school s.002 C.room G+0 192.00 4 1
144 Adola E. school s.003 C.room G+0 192.00 4 1
145 Adola E. school s.004 C.room G+0 192.00 4 1
146 Adola E. school s.005 Office G+0 327.00 16 1
147 Adola E. school s.006 Unused G+0 82.00 1 1
148 Adola E. school s.007 C.room G+0 192.00 6 1
149 Adola E. school s.008 C.room G+0 187.00 4 1
150 Adola E. school s.009 Store G+0 48.00 4 1
151 Adola E. school s.010 Store G+0 48.00 1 1
152 Adola E. school s.011 C.room G+0 187.00 1 1
153 Adola E. school s.011A C.room G+0 218.00 4 1
154 Adola E. school s.011B C.room G+0 112.00 4 1
155 Adola E. school s.011C Store G+0 168.00 1 1
156 Adola E. school s.011D Café G+0 92.00 1 1
Total Floor area 2,429.00
157 Fence 45,964.00
In terms of construction material, close observation at Table below reveals about 53 percent of
the Drainage Network has been built of Masonry. Out of the total Drainage Network
constructed throughout the city, closed Masonry drainage line constitutes 4% of the total length
Table 22: Drainage network Inventory by material Type and Equivalent Length
Length
of
Draina On
On On
Actual Actual Acttual ge in Seconda
Materi primary Collect Covera
Asset type length/ length/k Area/m km ry
al 2 Road(k or ge %
m m convert Road(k
m) Road
ed to m)
1.5m
width
Mason
ry 14,176. 19,846.
14.176 7.04 4.2 9.5 0.476 95%
Drain 00 40
Open
DRAINAGE Mason
LINE ry
820 0.82 688.4 0.46 0 0 0.82 5%
Drain
Closed
Total 14,996 15 20,535 8 4 10 1 100%
10.00
14.17 0.82
5.00 Series1
0.00
Masonry Drain Open Masonry Drain
Closed
Figure 28 Partial View of Unsanitary and Poor Solid Waste Disposal Site
efforts to develop road median greeneries. As demonstrated in the Table below, there are
Three major categories of greenery areas and inventoried as shown in the table below.
Greenery Type
4,990.00
417.00
Ammenity Greenery
Sport Field
48,368.00
Light Vehicles
S.N Asset Plate Number Purpose Condition Operational Year of
Subcategory Status Purchase
1 TVS 4'5370 OR Field Vehicles Moderate Functional 2008
2 TVS 4'3970 OR Field Vehicles Moderate Functional 2007
3 BOXER 4'11902 OR Office Vehicle Moderate Non Functional ___
4 BOXER 4'1177 OR Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2004
5 R/foksi 4'1170 OR Office Vehicle Poor Non Functional 2003
6 BOXER 4'1176 OR Office Vehicle Poor Non Functional 2004
7 BOXER __ Office Vehicle Moderate Non Functional 2004
8 SUK __ Office Vehicle Moderate Functional __
9 YAMH __ Office Vehicle Moderate Functional __
10 TVS __ Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2011
11 TYGER __ Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2011
12 TYGER __ Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2011
13 TVS 4'5423OR Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2010
14 BOXER 4'3960OR Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2005
15 HONDA __ Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2007
16 TVS 4'3967OR Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2010
17 TVS __ Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2009
18 TVS 4,5368OR Office Vehicle Moderate Functional 2009
Knowledge of the condition of infrastructure assets is critical to the wider success of the Asset Management
Plan, as it forms the basis for building the estimate of both maintenance and rehabilitation. It also has an
impact on the value of the asset base, since a large maintenance ‘deficit’ reduces the value of the assets.
The way in which the condition of assets is defined will depend upon whether they are readily accessible.
This is because the best way to provide an accurate assessment is through direct sensing, either visually or
by automated sensors. Where assets cannot be seen, as with buried pipes for example, and where there is
no automatic sensing, then so-called ‘proxy’ methods of defining condition have to be used, which rely on
indirect indicators, such as the age of the pipes.
The assessment of asset condition presents existing status of assets and it therefore serves as a means to
prioritize and forecast future maintenance and rehabilitation efforts. Further it helps the city
administration to understand the asset values that the city worth’s and also indicates the level of
deterioration of core infrastructure assets and the risk management impacts on the probability and
consequence of failure.
In order to undertake an acceptable condition assessment, a definite and clear condition indicator are
prepared and employed for those assets accessible for physical inspections. Two types of condition
indicators have been applied for this AMP study. Thus, five-point scale condition indicators (that classified
as Very Good, Good, Moderate, Poor and Very Poor) are widely utilized for all assets except that of the
buildings for which three scale indicators (Good, moderate and Poor) are applied. Tables below
summarize the condition indicators used for condition assessments of the city asset bases. All indicators
adapted from Addis Ababa AMP except for Buildings and Water Supply Network for which the South
African and Ghana experiences are considered.
The five levels of condition used for point feature assets are generic, i.e. they are the same for all feature
classes defined as point features. These follow the outline of the five levels described previously, which can
be summed up in the following table.
Following from this, point feature assets can then be divided into three groups for the purpose of condition
assessment:
The nature of point feature assets, whereby each is defined as a single component, makes them the
simplest assets to assess The set of tables provided in the sections that follow provides a more detailed
description for each asset feature, which expands upon this basic general description.
A characteristic of mechanical point feature assets is that, if they are not well maintained, then they break
down in a way that is immediately apparent. This means that the condition will generally be either level 2
or level 4. There are some level 3 conditions, for example leaking standpipes, but these will be relatively
small in number. The description of condition indicators is shown in Table 19 below.
Table 27: Condition Indicator table for Point Feature Assets: Mechanical Features
Level Descriptor General Description
1 Very good Used for new assets for the first year
2 Good Only routine and periodic maintenance procedures required
3 Moderate Minor faults (e.g. Leaking water standpipes) or poor
operation (e.g. Difficulty in opening or closing valves)
4 Poor Major component replacement required
5 Very poor Decommissioning or replacement of the asset
Although all of these assets are simple structures, they can vary in complexity to some degree, from single
signposts to communal toilet blocks. For road furniture the level 3 condition is rarely used, since these
assets quickly move to a level 4 condition is there is a problem. The description of condition indicators is
shown in figure 23 below.
Table 28: Condition Indicator table for Point Feature Assets: Structural Features
Vehicles, construction plant and machinery have shorter useful lives than do the majority of physical assets,
which is what differentiates them from other point source assets. In addition, there are very clear
guidelines for the servicing of these assets, while the suppliers of very large construction plant and
machinery provide a recommended list of spares that should be carried. Hence the condition of all of these
items can remain at level 2 for most of their useful life. Often, of course, vehicles, plant and equipment are
retained and used beyond the point where their accounting value has depreciated to zero. As the cost of
repairs increases, then there is a need to balance the increased cost against the purchase of new vehicles
and plant.
Table 29: Condition Indicator table for Point Feature Assets: Vehicles Plant and Machinery
Level Descriptor General description
1 Very good Used for new assets for the first year
2 Good Can be repaired with routine and periodic maintenance up to 80% of eul (expected useful
life)
3 Moderate Specific faults that require repair, such as leaking joints (for manholes) or damages walls or
toilets (for communal toilets)
4 Poor Up to 80% of eul where the cost of repairs is considered to be in excess of routine and
periodic maintenance costs; or 80-100% of eul with reasonable cost of repairs for an aging
vehicle
5 Very poor Decommissioning. Or up to 80% of eul where the cost of repairs is considered to be in excess
of routine and periodic maintenance costs; or 80-100% of eul with reasonable cost of repairs
for an aging vehicle
The most effective way to create these criteria is to separate the linear assets in groupings and treat each
of these separately. The first group is that of underground assets, comprising water mains and drainage
pipes. These are discussed last. All other linear assets are above ground assets.
With the exception of two feature classes (river center line, and fence and boundary wall) the above
ground linear feature assets can be divided into two groups. The first group comprises those assets directly
associated with the movement network. These include all roads, cycle paths, footpaths and roadside open
drainage channels. The second group comprise structures that are associated with the movement
network, comprising bridges, culverts, retaining walls and tunnels
Assessing the condition of the assets begins with a pavement condition survey, with the objective being to
collect all the basic reference data needed to define the condition of the road along it full length, using a
segmented approach. The information recorded will generally not change between periodic maintenance
interventions, except for the impact of rainwater resulting in storm damage. Consequently it is satisfactory
to carry out a survey annually, with the most appropriate time of year being in the period immediately
after the rainy season.
Each section of road identified by the asset inventory has been provided with a unique identifier (ID). The
road section is defined as that section of road lying between two defined points or nodes, which are
themselves defined by features such as road intersections. The pavement condition survey then uses the
road identifier, and a ‘chainage’ that is defined from a node point. This has to be done manually by visual
inspection. A set of feature codes can be used to improve the dataset, with known places being used as a
reference along the road segment in addition to the road ID.A plan downloaded from the GIS database
provides the basis for the assessment, and has the added benefit of ensuring accuracy in the location of the
road in the overall network. An entry is then made each time a defect or deterioration is identified.
It is important that the pavement condition survey be carried out methodologically and thoroughly with
as much detail as possible being recorded. Chainage reference points are needed so that the chainage can
be re-established at intermediate along the road segment. These reference points are essential if someone
else wishes to pick-up the chainage part way along the road segment. Provided there are plenty of fixed
features, such as junctions and culverts, this is not a problem but for roads in remote parts of the City,
where there are few obvious features
Turning to the practical application of the condition indicator, the challenge is not so much to identify the
damage, which is relatively easy to do using the tables of condition provided here; rather it is to try and
estimate the percentage of damage for the full element of the road. At a local level, a crack in an asphalt
road, which affects only the surface layer, would be considered only minor deterioration, while a pothole,
which opens up and damages the underlying structure layer, would be considered a much more severe
form of deterioration.
Recognizing this distinction between the specific nature of the deterioration and the overall condition, the
assessment process follows a two step-process. The first step is to define the different types of deterioration
that affect the different road surface types and to quantify these. Full details of the different types of
deterioration, and how to measure then, are provided in the tables below. This method of measuring
deterioration also applies to other feature classes that share these surface types. These include
roundabouts, cycle lanes, paved areas and footpaths.
Table 32: Method of measurement of deterioration types for compacted earth roads
Deterioration type Method of measurement
Table 33 Condition Indicator Table for linear feature assets: Roads, cycle paths, footpaths, paved areas
and roundabouts – all road surface types
There is just one exception to the use of surface area to describe deterioration in the roads. This is the
edging used in cobblestone roads (as well as the paved areas described later), where there is a double
layer of 50cm by 50cm blocks that form a more rigid boundary layer. Where this edging is used there is a
second condition assessment based upon the condition of this edging. Cobblestone roads may, therefore,
have two condition indicators, one reflecting the condition of the road as a whole, and one specifically
reflecting the condition of the edging.
Table 34 Condition Indicator Table for linear feature assets: Cobblestone Road edging
Level Rating Scale Condition Indicator
1 Very good Condition as new. No significant defects
2 Good Less than 5% of the total cobblestone road edging length suffers
deterioration
3 Moderate Between 6% and 20% of the total cobblestone road edging length
suffers deterioration
4 Poor Between 21% and 50% of the total cobblestone road edging length
suffers deterioration
5 Very poor Greater than 50% of the cobblestone road edging length area
suffers deterioration
The majority of drainage channels will be constructed from either large cut stone (masonry) or compacted
earth, both of which are relatively easy to assess for condition. And unlike the roads however, there is a
closer correlation between the level of individual damage or deterioration and the condition of the
element as a whole. The method of measurement of deterioration for drainage channels is shown in the
table below:
As with the roads, the level of the condition assessment is based upon the proportion of the drain affected
(by length), either, or both, of the last two tapes of damage above. The percentages to be used for the
different levels of condition are:
Table 36: Condition Indicator Table for linear feature assets: Drainage Channels
Compacted earth drains require regular grading and compaction; otherwise deterioration is very rapid.
This means that the condition tends to move rapidly from good (level 2 condition) to poor (level 4
condition). Deterioration should be measure by linear metre along the drain and the same percentages as
described above use to define level 2, but to describe everything above this as level 4 condition.
Table 37: Condition Indicator for Polygon feature assets: Bridges; Culverts; Reservoirs
Level Rating Condition Indicator
Scale
1 Very good Sound physical condition. Asset likely to perform adequately without major
work for 25 years or more.
2 Good Acceptable physical condition; minimal short-term failure risk but potential
for deterioration in long-term (10 years plus). Only minor work required (if
any).
3 Moderate Surface damage starting to occur, though not yet affecting the structural
integrity. Requires significant maintenance.
4 Poor Significant deterioration becoming evident. No immediate risk to health or
safety but works required within 2 years to ensure asset remains safe.
Substantial work required in short-term, asset barely serviceable.
5 Very poor Serious structural damage. Health and safety hazards exist which present a
possible risk to public safety or asset cannot be serviced/operated without
risk to personnel. Replacement required urgently.
Table 39: General condition indicator for greenery; open spaces; water bodies
Level Descriptor General Description
Table 41 : General condition indicator natural features; greenery; open spaces; water bodies
Level Descriptor General Description
The three point scale condition indicator applied for buildings are adapted from study prepared for
building maintenance in Gahanna because ,on one hand, it has found suitable for building physical
inspection carried out in this AMP and , on the other hand, lack of readily available and established
building condition indicator in the country. Hence, buildings and related facilities covered in this study has
assessed based on the indicators presented the table below.
Table 42: Condition Indicator for Polygon feature assets: buildings and facilities
Level Rating Condition Indicator: Maintenance
Scale
1 Very good Well maintained and clean.
2 Good Increased maintenance inspection required.
3 Moderate Regular and programmed maintenance inspections essential
Evaluation of the physical condition of the roads of Adolla indicated 13, 65 and 2 percent of the roads to
be, respectively, in good, moderate and poor condition whereas roads which are in Very poor condition
formed nearly 10 percent meaning that significant proportion of the roads in the town need major or
minor maintenance. Out of the total road which were found in very good condition cobble Stone roads
have formed high proportion (38 %). The condition of roads which were in good condition totaled about
11.89 km, out of these; cobble and Gravel roads constitute considerable proportion (84%) of total Length
km km km km km
Asphalt Road 0.37 0.34 0.02 0.02 0 0
Cobble 7.789 5.838 1.3 0.65 0 0
Gravel 61.506 3.33 1.24 7.17 18.407 31.36
Red Ash 0 0 0 0 0 0
Earth Pressed 12.58 2.98 1.03 8.57 0 0
Earth Natural 12.88 0 0.81 0 2.31 9.76
Total 95.125 12.488 4.4 16.41 20.717 41.12
All Road Condition 100% 12% 5% 18% 22% 44%
50
40
30
20
10
0
V.good Good Moderate Poor V.poor
Conditions Eq.Km
Legend
All_Road_2014
Status
Good (28)
Moderate (116)
Poor (0)
The Table presented below shows conditional assessment of coverage of street lights along the
roads in the town by the type of poles, and type of luminaries. From the table, the total number
of streetlights along the roads is 643.00 out of these, 117 are wooden poles, and the rest 263 poles
are Steel poles.
The Table presented below shows conditional assessment of coverage of culvert along the roads
side in the town by the type of built structure
S/N Bldg_Function AD_ID Very Good Modera Poor Very Total Area
Good te Poor
1 Admin office AD.00 0% 0% 53% 47% 0% 1,718.00
1
2 02 Kebele AD.012 0% 0% 0% 100 0% 230.00
%
3 Adarash AD.015 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 1,679.00
4 03 Kebele AD.013 0% 0% 0% 100 0% 256.00
%
5 01 Kebele AD.014 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 207.00
14 Adola woyu AD.29 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 715.00
T.water office
100%
80%
Very Good
60% Good
Moderate
40%
Poor
20%
0%
Adola Woyu Referal Hospital Adola Town Health Center
Distribution 9.12
main line
2000-2007
Gravity 19.7
Main (u pvc
DN 350)
Transmission 7.2
Line
Condition Assessment had been done using the revised Asset Management Operational manual of the
Ministry of Urban Development and Housing (MUDH) five level condition indicators which is showed in
table below. Accordingly, the inventory result revealed that from the total (14.00 kilo meter) Open and
Closed Masnory drain; about 7.38 kilo metre were in Very good condition followed by 4.86 kilo meter were
in Good condition and 1.26 Km Drain were in Poor condition. The details of drainage condition assessment
can be referred from table 44 below.
The existing open and uncontrolled solid waste dumping site is not only improper but highly saturated
and unsanitary dumping site which is found in state of poor and a potential threat of human health and
urban environment. Aware of that the study of construction of modern sanitary landfill site the existing
poor dumping site will be abandoned.
Figure 37 Poor and Risky Waste Disposal Practice outside the Dumping Site
As part of the liquid waste management system, among the existing public and communal facilities those
serving for long period of time are deteriorated and unsanitary to serve the community.
Conditions
NO Asset Subcategory Location No of rooms V.Good Good Moderate Poor V.poor
1 Communal Toilet Distributed 17 1 16
2 Public Toilet Distributed 2 2
Total 19
The condition assessment report, as reported by the municipality, shows that about 50 percent of the
movable assets are found to be in very good and good conditions (5 % very good and 45 % good) and the
rest 27 % are in moderate, 18 % in poor and 1 % in severe condition. Looking into their service years that
almost half of these assets have been serving more than 10 years that is above the conventional expected
use life and the chance of intensive utilization due to limited number, the conditions of most of the assets
would be taken as unfavorable. The Table below presents the detail of the condition status of each
moveable asset. Thus the municipality would have a plan to add some machineries and heavy trucks in
the short and medium term planning period.
5.1. Introduction
Strategic maintenance program and reliable maintenance funding for the city network
infrastructure assets and facilities become and recognized as vital requirement in municipal
infrastructure and asset management initiatives. To ensure utilization of the public investment at
optimal level and to meet service level standard expected by the public, considering maintenance
planning and management as integral part of the municipal function is thus one of the core
purpose of municipal asset management.
In other words efficient and effective asset management planning and implementation is largely
require establishing sustainable maintenance management system and program which should be
supported by GIS and other related technologies.
Nevertheless, akin to almost all of cities and municipalities of the country, no doubt the city
should has accumulated maintenance deficit. The accumulated maintenance deficit has to be
identified and addressed to ensure appropriate balance of resource allocation between new asset
development and maintaining the existing to meet the primary requirement to exercise asset
management planning and implementation practice.
This part of the AMP is then devoted to prepare the maintenance budget guide which should
identify the maintenance need for all asset classes of the city. It is believed that the maintenance
budget guide besides identifying the need for preventing, maintaining, repairing, rehabilitating
and replacing, will also serve as staring and turning point to systematically plan for, and
continually invest in preventing assets and maintaining, renewal and replacing promptly and
eventually tracks to development and application of modern maintenance management system.
Table 52 ERA (ERCC) Maintenance Rate of Road, Drainage and Culvert (2016 E.C)
Maintenance Activities Unit Unit Rate
Asphalt Patching (Seal Coat) m2 72
Re gravelling m2 116
Accordingly, based on critical review of all aforementioned sources and discussion with the city
AMP focal person, the following baseline maintenance unit rates are set for different condition
levels of the city assets to forecast the maintenance need.
It has to be noted that these baseline maintenance rate can be considered as only as initial base
line rate. So, it has to be modified and fine-tune in the subsequent year based on thoughtful
records of actual maintenance expenditures and tender unit values that will be recorded since
the first year of implementation of this AMP. The estimation of rehabilitation cost for the assets
assessed to be in very poor condition is based on estimated replacement cost of the assets and
three-fourth of the replacement value of the assets is taken to be the estimated rehabilitation
cost.
Table 55 Maintenance Rate for the Water Supply Network- above Ground Assets
Feature Class Unit Maintenance Rate (Br)
Table 56 Maintenance Unit Rates for Water Supply Network - below Ground Assets
Feature Class Very Good Good Moderate Poor Very poor
Indicative RUL for condition 71 - 100 % 46-70 % 26-45 % 11-25 % 0-10 %
Distribution Line 0.1 % of RC 2 % of RC 5 % of RC 10 % of RC 100 % RC
Table 57 Maintenance Rate for Social and Economic Service Buildings and Supporting Services
Feature Class Good (as % of Moderate (as % of RC) Poor (as % of Very poor
RC) RC)
Buildings and 0.50% 2% 3% 100%
Facilities
Fence 0.50% 2% 3% 100%
Machineries and 5.00% 10% 15% 100%
Heavy Trucks
Office Vehicles 0.50% 2% 3% 100%
and Motors
It worth mentioning here that some assets assessed and found in very poor conditions would
require further actions than rehabilitation such as full replacement or complete
decommissioning (particularly movable assets and buildings). In such case the estimation for
replacement would not be stated in the maintenance forecast while the rehabilitation cost
itself is assumed to be part of the new work budget.
The existing roads surfacing, including earthen road, need an estimated Birr 3.5 Million for
preventive routine and periodic maintenance. The budget estimate is to keep 77,460 square
meter or 11.06 km equivalent length of all surface road which are found in state of good condition.
Existing pedestrian sidewalk road network which are assessed to be in state of good condition will
be prevented and retained at current desirable state of condition with similar maintenance
activities and maintenance rate of the road surfacing. The maintenance forecast to preserve and
retain current good conditions of cobble surfaces of pedestrian sidewalk road is about Birr 33,051
Lifting of Lift out cobblestone in demarcated area. Clean the bed. Lay down a layer
cobblestones of clean, graded sand and compact. Lay new cobblestones
Surface depression Lift out the cobblestone in demarcated area. Clean the bed. Add sub-base
material and compact. Lay sand bed and compact. Lay new cobblestones.
Failure of Lift out the cobblestone in demarcated area. Clean the bed. Add sub-base
cobblestone edging material if required and compact. Lay sand bed and compact. Lay new
cobblestones.
Table 62 Maintenance Activities for Deteriorated Gravel and Red Ash Roads
Deterioration type Maintenance measures and methods
Channelling For channels less than 20cm wide clean out channel, fill with graded material and
compact by hand
Potholes Clean out depression, fill with graded material and compact by machine
Wash-away For channels greater than 30cm wide clean out channel, fill with graded material and
compact by machine
The total maintenance backlog for all road surfaces is estimated to be Birr 36.8 Million. Of which
as some as Birr 34.8 Million is forecasted to restore the deteriorated Gravel road, this represents
almost 94% of the maintenance deficit of road surfacing.
The city would look into alternative options such as upgrading the deteriorated gravel roads into
cobble pavement which would be feasible than spending much more maintenance fund for
gravel road.
The same could be recommending for earth pressed road. The feasible strategic option would be
gradual upgrading of deteriorated compacted earth road into gravel or cobble surface than
spending much to maintain it.
Estimated
Level of %
Maintenanc Quantity to be Unit Rate Maintenan
Feature Class deteriorat Unit Cover
e Activity Maintained (Br) ce Budget
ion ed
(Br)
0.10
AsphaltRoad Crack Moderate m2 107.4079663 300 32,222.39
%
Cobble
Cobble Stone 2.10
Edge Moderate m2 4524.44398 250 1,131,110
Road %
Failure
38,129,885. 94.50
Gravel Road Channeling Moderate m2 363141.7679 105
63 %
2,099,258. 3.30
Earth Pressed Channeling Moderate m2 59978.81668 35
58 %
427752.43652 41,166,25 100
Total
63 5.40 %
The condition assessment identifies that among the total of 643 Street light poles as high as 117
lamps have not been functioning during the study. The study proposes a total of Birr
1,230,000 birr to replace the non-functioning lamps.
ground assets, it is based on the age of the assets that is taking into consideration the proportion
of their remaining useful life.
Table 66 Maintenance Requirements for above Ground Water Supply Network Assets
Feature Class Unit Quantity Maintenance Estimated Maintenance
Rate as % of RC Budget (Br)
as
The regular maintenance activities to the breakage and damaged water lines are repair,
replacement and upgrade based on frequent inspection and leakage detection. The minor
breakage and damaged below ground water lines would be repair as short as possible before
they get serious damages and causes interrupting the normal water supply system. If they are
left without repairs and kept until serious breakage is occur, they are costly to replace.
Based on the Projected Replacement Cost and the percentage of indicative remaining useful
life of water lines, this is calculated from the Asset Age and Asset Life Expectancy, the
maintenance needs are estimated. Consequently, for water lines found in state of condition
level one and two (very good and good) annual budget of Birr 217,824 is forecasted and to
repair breakage and damages.
For long age and old water line infrastructure, they rated as state of moderate and poor
conditions based on their indicative remaining useful life; a minimum estimated budget Birr
1,677,980will be needed. The forecasted maintenance will prevent risks of damages, losses and
breakages that may arise due to age and other uncertain circumstances on existing pipe lines.
Aggregately below ground assets should need estimated maintenance budget about Birr
1,979,803.80.
The following are some of periodic and routine maintenance activities to prevent the drainage
network from deterioration and to keep properly functioning;
As depicted in the Figure below, open masonry drainage, which constitutes the largest portion of
drainage network assets, also represents the largest maintenance deficit, 100 %. Cognizing the
significant impacts of drainage network on the road system the municipality will pay attention
and give priority to maintain the drainage network promptly.
ii. Maintaining Public and Communal Toilets
The communal and public toilets have impacts on the surrounding environment and health
risks of the users thus should get priority of preventive and corrective maintenance.
Particularly inspecting the state of public toilets should need a regular inspection since they
may be subjected to a variety of causes and damages such as; wash–basin taps left running
with the plug-in position; sewage disposal pipes can be blocked because toilets may not flush
regularly and various other materials other than toilet paper will be used and a variety of
unacceptable items disposed of through the sewerage system. Thus, the municipality should
exert efforts to retain deteriorated communal and public toilets with an estimated annual
budget Birr 8,550.00.
The maintenance forecast to retain exiting desired condition level of median greenery,
amenity greenery and to reinstate some parts of the sport fields including football fields,
Basketball & Volleyball Fields and Tennis play grounds found in state of moderate and poor
condition. In total the study proposed an estimated budget about Birr 465,558.00 to address
maintenance deficit of greeneries and the indicated sport fields.
School buildings are the dominant in number and the largest maintenance need of both
preventive and corrective maintenance. According to the condition assessments 14 school buildings
require preventive maintenance at annual bases with an estimated Birr 132,097.50 to retain
their current good performing condition. In similar manner 22 health service buildings, 2 MSEs
premises and other 7 public buildings that are inspected and found in state of good condition.
Based on the percentage of replacement cost, the study proposes annual estimated budge of Birr
1,273,935.00 to prevent the indicated buildings. In total Birr 1,406,032.50.
will be allocated for preventing social and economic service buildings. The detail of each building
types and maintenance need is annexed in the excel data set.
The accumulated maintenance deficit of social and economic service buildings should be
eliminated or minimized by a range of maintenance activities depending on the damaged and
deteriorated parts and components of the buildings. The possible maintenance measure would
include full servicing and repairing building components, major repair and replacement of
damaged, deteriorated, and poorly functioning parts.
The assessment indicates that there has been a relatively large maintenance backlog of buildings
that shows the majority of municipal buildings have not been adequately prevented and
repaired over their service life. As the result most of buildings exhibited large accumulated
maintenance backlogs and need significant corrective maintenance measures. In aggregate the
study identifies nearly Birr 2.6 Million will be needed to address the ever-accumulated building
maintenance deficit over the years.
Maintenance Deficit of School Buildings
The big maintenance backlog of the strategic category is reported on the school buildings that
accounts for nearly Birr 1.5 Million. The situation reflects there has been along years deferred
maintenance and failure to allocate maintenance budget for school building.
Maintenance Deficit of Health Service Buildings
A need to correct maintenance deficit of 10 health post buildings, located at 1,779.00 square
meters is relatively small that is estimated about Birr 240,165.00 and represents 9 % of the
maintenance deficit of the strategic category. From safety considerations and user’s expectation
health service buildings should be repaired in short periods before any additional damage would
occur.
Maintenance Deficit of Market Facilities and MSEs Premises
There are about 6 aged market buildings assessed to be deteriorated. In aggregate the study
identifies nearly Birr 81,540.00 will be needed to maintain MSEs and Market Buildings.
Maintenance Deficit, Sport Fields Youth Centers and other buildings
Under the category of other municipal buildings 5 buildings and facilities are included such as
Cinema Hall, Sport Center and youth centers that have been inspected in moderate and good
conditions. As illustrated in the Figure below the subcategory constitutes nearly 1% of the
maintenance deficit of the strategic category.
130
50 BOXER 4,1191OR Moderate Functional 25999 0.5%
130
51 TVS __ Moderate Functional 40000 0.5%
200
52 TVS 4,39644OR Moderate Functional 35000 0.5%
175
53 TVS __ Moderate Functional 39000 0.5%
195
54 TVS POL074OR Moderate Functional 35000 0.5%
175
55 BOXER 4,1190OR Moderate Functional 25999 0.5%
130
56 TVS 4,2711OR Moderate Functional 40000 0.5%
200
57 TVS 4,3961OR Moderate Functional 38000 0.5%
190
58 TVS __ Moderate Functional 40000 0.5%
200
59 TVS __ Moderate Functional 43000 0.5%
215
60 YAMAHA __ Moderate Functional 25999 0.5%
130
61 TVS __ Poor Functional 63887 0 -
62 APACHI __ Moderate Functional 82000 0 -
63 TVS 42711-OR Moderate Functional 40000 0.5%
200
64 TYGER 163FMK Moderate Functional 48019 0.5%
240
65 TVS 5359 OR Moderate Functional 40000 0.5%
200
66 TYGER Poor Functional 48019 0 -
67 BMP ___ Poor Functional 53002.02 0 -
68 TYGER Poor Functional 48019 0.5%
240
69 TYGER Poor Functional 48019 0.05
2,401
70 BMP ___ Poor Functional 84000 0 -
Total 40,603,76 8,616,116
9
5.4. Rehabilitation Requirement for Social & Economic Area and Supporting
Services
As it has been exhibited and noted in the building inventory and condition assessments, buildings
inspections have been focused on major building components that are foundation, floor, wall, and
roof. The inspection thus identified deteriorated building components of the social and economic
strategic area and supporting services for rehabilitation, renewal and replacement.
From the building inventory and condition data so the buildings requiring rehabilitation or renewal
are 39 school buildings, 16 market shades, and 17 administrative office buildings the forecast to renew
the indicated buildings and fence is about Birr 4.6 million.
Table 76 Rehabilitating Social and Economic Activity Area and Supporting Service Assets
Building Conditio Number Of Area Maintenance Rate as MC
Function n Buildngs % of RC
School Very 5 850.00 85% 4,696,250
Poor
Total 5 7,162.0 4,696,250
0
Total Rehabilitation 4,696,250
The movement network assets accounting for about 75 % of the total maintenance need and as
high as 67 % of the total maintenance deficit of the city assets. Gravel road in the other hand
represents 86 % of the maintenance deficit of the movement network and 74 % of the total
maintenance deficit.
Rehabilitation Summary
Rehabilitation forecast is carried out in the preceding section for asset classes which are found
in state of very poor condition, the summary is presented below. The estimated required
funding to restore and renew severely deteriorated assets estimated about Birr 12.7 Million.
Subtotal 2,071,922
School 4,696,250.
Subtotal 4,696,250
Machinery 6,000,000
Subtotal 6,000,000
To conclude, addressing the identified maintenance need and rehabilitation the municipality
would need short to longer term maintenance and rehabilitation strategy. This is because that
the existing financial and funding capacity of the municipality would not afford the forecasted
maintenance and rehabilitation requirement. The maintenance plan section of the study, in
section 8, will discuss how these costs would feed into the city financial plan and will identify the
top maintenance and rehabilitation priorities that could be addressed in the three years capital
investment program.
6.1 Introduction
Asset valuation can be simply defined as the process of assigning monetary value to an asset. It
is so enabling the municipality, the community and any other interested body (for example the
banks as lender for public investment) to have information about the money value of the assets
owned by a local government to ascertain the credit worthiness of the local government.
In addition, it enables the municipality to design strategy for public asset long-term management
and estimate funding need to replacement and fulfil the current gap and ever-increasing
demand of infrastructure and services. Valuation also has significant importance to increase the
awareness to preserve the asset and the need of proper maintenance. So as valuation has direct
relationship with maintenance and preservation thus can be a good indicator to evaluate
maintenance performance. This is because that well maintained and reserved infrastructure
assets and facilities ultimately increase its economic useful life and appreciates its value over a
period of time. On the other hand assets that are not suitably maintained quickens the
depreciation rate and then so declining the value.
7 Valve no 500
8 Public tap (Water Point) no 100,000
9 Hydrants no 50,000
10 Generators no 750,000
11 Distribution Line km 2,000,000
12 Transmission Line km 1,500,000
13 1500m3 service reservoir no 3,000,000
14 150m Elevated reservoir no 3,000,000
15 Bono Laterals km 500,000
Environmental
Strategic Activity
Area Assets
Social and
Economic Strategic
Area Assets
The Figure above demonstrates that Movement Network, by 16 % social and economic strategic
area assets by 39 % share and the water supply network asset share, is the Second most valued
asset of the city.
Unit Rate
S.no Feature Class Unit Quantity CRC (Br)
(Br)
6.4.4 Current Replacement Cost of Social and Economic Strategic Area Assets
Current Replacement Cost of social and economic strategic activity area at CRC terms valued
as some as Birr 311.1 Million. This makes the strategic area the most valued strategic category
that constitutes 38 % of RC of the city asset bases.
Unit Rate
S.no Feature Class Number Unit Quantity CRC (Br)
(Br)
7,500.00
Due to accelerated depreciation nature of road network assets and drainage channel, however,
to reach to estimated current value, the maintenance deficit must be deducted from DRC. For
water supply network assets and the rest of environmental protection assets, excluding drainage
network, and buildings and facilities under social, economic and administration service as well as
movable assets, the estimated value of DRC is supposed to be represent or equal to estimated
current value of assets. This is because those the latter asset categories are not supposed to
depreciate at accelerated rate thus the value of DRC itself represent the estimated current value
of the asset without deducting maintenance deficit.
6.5.4. Summary of Current Value and Asset Deficit of the City Asset base
Based on the above valuation technique to estimate the current value of the city assets, the
estimated current value of the city assets about Birr 454.3 Million (the detail presented in the
Excel data set); which is equal to about 54 % of the current replacement cost. The different
between the current value and the replacement value, which is about Birr 375.5 Million
represents the asset deficit; which is the value of the assets lost due to age and maintenance
deficit (due to only age in case of water assets and facilities and buildings). Thus, the deficit is
about 46 % of the replacement value which implies the big impact of maintenance negligence
along with wear and tear of the assets due to age. It has to be noted that for the assets which
are serving beyond their expected useful life, zero is assigned as their residual value because
assets will never assign a negative value.
When looking the contribution of asset categories for the total current value of the city assets, the
social and economic service buildings represents a largest major carrying value of the city assets,
which is about 38 % that is correspondent its biggest contribution for replacement value. In
general, the relative higher asset deficit of the city assets warns the municipality should care of
the existing assets equally with the efforts to increase the stock of new assets.
Table 89 : Summary of Estimated Current Value and Asset Deficit of the City Assets
Feature Class Unit Quantity Unit Rate Estimate Estimate Estimate Estimat Asset
(Br) d d d ed Deficit
Current Deprecia Mainten Current (Br)
Replace ted ance Value
ment Replace Deficit (Br)
Cost (Br) ment (Br
Cost (Br)
I. The Movement Network
Asphalt Road Equ.Leng 0.373652 21,000,000 7,770,000 4,672,432 22,877.90 4,636,904 3,209,788
th
Cobble Equ.Leng 6.411 2,450,000 1,794,278 8,676,379 1,131,110.00 7,281,878 6,534,915
th
Gravel Equ.Leng 61.507 2,100,000 12,916,470 70,568,79 38,129,885. 32,835,217 99,943,2
th 0 63 02
Earth Pressed Equ.Leng 12.58227 210,000 2,642,276 5,546,456 2,099,258. 4,339,657 -1,697,381
th 58
Culvert No 13 85,000 145,200,00 718,250 0 718,250 386,750
0
Street Light no of 643 50,000 32,150,00 27,327,50 1,230,000 27,137,50 5,012,50
Pole 0 0 0 0
Pedestrian Walkway Equ.Leng 0.17 2,450,000 416,500 274,890 0 241,839 174,661
th
Subtotal 190,755, 117,784,6 41,383,13 77,191,2 113,564,
679 97 2.11 44 435
II. Water Supply Network assets
Parks and Sport Fields m2 52,992.00 200 10,598,40 7,418,880 435,312.00 6,953,322 3,645,078
0
7. Step Seven (Section) VII Proposed New Works Projects, Cost and
Prioritization
In this stage of the AMP new works projects to be executed in the next three years are identified
and the funding requirement to develop the identified new assets are estimated. The proposed new
work projects are based on the community need assessment and the gap analysis including the need
to upgrading the existing deteriorated Asphalt road, constructing the new asphalt road in the new
rout and the ongoing (rolled) projects. Thus the overall proposal is derived from the three years
rolling CIP proposal prepared under the UIIDP program of the city and the city plan to upgrade and
construct asphalt road that would be financed and funded separately from the UIIDP matching fund.
1 Movement Network
Sub Total
4 Other Projects
Sub Total
Estimated unit cost for construction and acquisition of new assets has been established in step 6 for
the valuation and costing of the city assets is expected to be employed to forecast the budget
required for the new works. As mentioned in step 6, the estimated unit rates are developed based on
reviewing various relevant sources including recent and ongoing projects of the city itself, peer
cities and AACRA and ERCC recent projects. Thus, tender unit values of similar projects are
gathered and reviewed to adjust to the local situations. Thus, the unit rate for new works has made
tends to be current, adjust to consider differences in location, the availability of the row material
and the consent ration of construction industry.
Apparently, the actual cost of construction would vary due to differ in the design details and
specific circumstances; and the size of the project invariably has an overriding effect on the unit
rate (economy of scale). Thus, until the more permanent infrastructure unit cost database is
established (possibly by ERA), which can be analyzed and adjusted based on city local condition on
a systematic basis. the base line unit rate provided could be used to estimate indicative budget
requirement.
It should be noted that the unit rate provided in the aforementioned section of the study and
employed to estimate the budget requirement for the city CIP, and asphalt upgrading, and new
asphalt road construction showed some variances. This is due to the result of the different approach
of estimating the unit rate. The proposed construction cost of the asphalt road, for example, is based
on detailed estimate and breakdown of project costs into the labor, material and equipment costs.
Thus, type of estimate needs to have a design available to get such required details. Therefore, the
unit rates provided could not be taken as a as a firm value, but as indicative base line values that
would and should be fine-tuned recurrently.
The participation of the community and all relevant stakeholders to identify the infrastructure and
service need has the paramount effect on the effectiveness and implementation of the new projects.
In this regard consultation has been made in various stages with the community, represented by
their representative, and sectoral offices of the city administration with the intent to identify the
actual needs and service gaps.
The need assessment supposed to be base to evaluate the gap between infrastructure and service
development and delivery to be informed about the actual needs of the community and the sectoral
plan. In addition, well-articulated need assessments should and could be a base for evaluating and
measuring the city performances to address the gaps.
Furthermore, the identified need will serve as a base for successive plan and to adjust the plan if the
ongoing delivery strategy need to be improved and the needs for services arise and changes. The
Table below summarized the need assessment that employed to identify the proposed new work
projects.
Taking into consideration the gap assessments illustrated above and mainly the community
need assessment the CIP prepared for 2014 to 2016 E.C. In general, the proposed new work
projects are prepared based on; -
Community consultation
Review of the infrastructures and service gabs identified during inventory and condition
assessments of this AMP study
Review of the past three-year rolling capital investment plan (2014 to 2016 E.C) of the
city
Review of funding capacity of the city
A new work project proposal has framed by three project years to assist prioritizing projects for
consideration within a rolling three years capital investment plan. The Tables below presents
the list of proposed projects and the estimated project cost for the indicated project years. The
forecasted budget for the proposed new works including ongoing projects is Birr 40.29mil
Table 64: Summary of cost of new work projects by activity area
Furthermore, taking into consideration that Adolla is one of the selected urban areas as the
urban growth pole of the Western urban network cluster; the development of infrastructure
network and environmental and socioeconomic services and facilities should contribute great
for the role the city expected to function in urban system development initiatives.
Table 92 Potential Funding of the Three Years Rolling Capital Investment Plan
13 . -
Total fund available
for the CIP
14 (6+12+13) 14,191,002.0 17,029,202.36 20,435,042.84 51,655,247.17
environmental and financial perspectives, the following criteria are again employed to
prioritize the new works projects, in addition to the appraisal that can also be considered as the
part of prioritization process.
Promoting equity among the locality and ensuring efficient spatial development patterns has
been one of the criteria to prioritize the new works projects. Compatibility with the structure
plan, the level of the benefits to local community and the local economy; and balancing the
need between infill development of existing area and new area development of the expansion
area have also been the major criteria to prioritize the projects.
Accordingly, the following site-specific priority projects are identified as top priority new works
projects.
Table 93Financial Summary for New Works Projects by Strategic Activity Are
S/N Name of Project Unit Qountity Unit Rate Total Amount Location Priority
Movement
1
Network
Terrazo Tile
a.
Walk Way
Asir Aleka
ODA
1.1 Mekonnin house m2 750 3,895.74 2,921,806.81 I
DOLA
to BGI store
from BGI store to ODA
1.2 m2 750 4,268.99 3,201,742.40 I
PP poul house DOLA
PP poul house to ODA
1.3 m2 700 4,410.89 3,087,620.55 I
Sharo shop DOLA
Sub Total 9,211,169.76
Environmental
3
Service
Drainage
3.1
Network
Drainage from
shakiso Asphalt Birbirsa
3.2 Ml 175 16,191.77 2,833,559.04 I
to Abreham Bilu
Ababa residence
Sub Total 2,833,559.04
As can be seen from the Figure below, the largest proportion, nearly 56 % of the proposed new
works projects are constituted by environmental activity area. The movement network asset is
the second most important proposed budgeted area. The proposed projects in the movement
network assets activity area composed of construction of cobble stone road, and Expansion of
Street light in different Kebeles represents 30 % of the total budget estimated for the
construction and acquisition of proposed new works in three years project period
50% 46%
45%
40%
31%
35%
30%
25%
20% 13%
15%
10% 5% 3%
5%
1% 1%
0%
8.1. General
The implementation of the AMP would primarily support understanding of the need to establish
modern and sustainable maintenance strategy and to invest in maintenance adequately. The
maintenance trends over the last 3 years can be the indication of the growing emphasis of
maintenance parallel with the growing investment in infrastructure assets and facilities. Arguably
beyond the efforts, the deferred and accumulated maintenance deficit has been increasing. This
then suggests that unless sustainable maintenance strategy and funding mechanism is established
the city core infrastructure will continue to deteriorate. Particularly expensive paved roads
(asphalt and cobble stone road) and drainage lines will continue to deteriorate at accelerated
rate as exhibited from the physical condition of some of recently constructed Asphalt road. In
general, the condition assessment revealed that most of the city infrastructure assets and facilities
require substantial maintenance for estimated maintenance need is reaching about Birr 77.8
Million. Therefore, the city will strive to establish the strategy to carry out appropriate levels of
maintenance and funding options to afford the forecasted maintenance need that is relatively
big.
Preventive maintenance are in this case routine and periodic maintenance activities which are
supposed to be normal maintenance activities that should be performed to retain an asset that
are found in good condition (and very good condition for Water supply network assets). The
ultimate target of preventive maintenance, as the name implied, is to protect the good
performing assets from any risks of failure, damages, and deteriorations in advance
Preventive maintenance can be routine and periodic. Routine maintenance is the regular on-
going work which is necessary to keep assets operating as desired and normal condition. Whereas,
periodic maintenance includes activities undertaken at intervals of some years to preserve the
assets and for the road retaining structural integrity excludes those works that change the
geometry of a road by widening or realignment.
Gravel Spot repair by selected materials and ensuring that water can flow freely off the road surface and brushing
and and ditching
Large Clean out channel, fill with graded material and compact by hand. Clean out depression, fill
Block with graded material and compact by machine
Roads
Pedestria Routine cleaning of the road free of rubbish and debris and ensuring water can flow freely off the road
n surface.
Sidewalk Cold mix asphalt treatment, double or triple mix. Excavate base and sub-base material to sub-
grade. Grade and compact the new sub-base and base. Clean out channel, fill with graded
material and compact by hand. Clean out depression, fill with graded material and compact by
machine
Bridges Replacing wearing surface, crack seal surface, pave full width, seal joint between edge of
paving and face of wall, pointing masonry, repair barriers, safety features, slab maintenance,
replace walls, saw cut around deterioration, patch with concrete, patch delaminating , replace
deck and floor beam/ column
Culvert Cleaning bottom and place concrete in bottom, install liner plate if capacity allows, remove
trees in vicinity of culvert, weld short piece of rebar across the crack on every other
corrugation, replace headwall, excavate and jack back into shape then re-bed and properly
backfill, excavate and re-waterproof
Drainage Clearing and cleaning, reshaping, regarding, deepening, clearing grassing and erosion controls
Network
s Clean out the damaged area and reseal the affected joints with new mortar, remove all
damaged block back to the solid wall. Clean the joints and lay new blocks.
Step towards managing the city assets through asset management plan needs taking
maintenance as one of basic and integral part of the core municipal works; and then to establish
sustainable maintenance management system. The primary task is so to eliminate accumulated
maintenance deficit as shortest as possible project years. The maintenance plan as part of the
short-term capital investment and financial plan therefore must focuses on the need to
eliminate the accumulated maintenance backlogs identified by each strategic activity area.
In total, the municipality needs to allocate about Birr 53.8 Million to address both preventive
and maintenance required and to eliminate the accumulated maintenance deficit. The
preventive maintenance need is forecasted as some as Birr 7.1 Million, whereas the maintenance
needs to eliminate the accumulated deficit is as some as Birr 46.6 Million. Thus, the municipality
will need an extended year to address the deficit. The other feasible and recommended option
is to look forward the ways to upgrade the deteriorated earthen, Cobble and gravel road into
the next surface level than investing in maintaining particularly the deteriorated gravel, earthen
and large block road. That will minimize the maintenance burden while benefiting from
investing on new assets.
The present capacity of the city, however, is not able to address the identified maintenance
backlog in the coming three project years. Despite that maintenance schedule are proposed
which distributes the identified maintenance deficit across the three years to consider and
indicate broad prioritization of addressing maintenance deficit.
Street Light 0
1.7 Pedestrian Cobbel 0
Subtotal 41,383,132.11 75%
2 Water Supply Network Assets
Subtotal 1,895,803.80 4%
III Environmental Protection Assets
4.1 Abattoirs 0
4.2 Administrative 863,250.00
4.3 Health 240,165.00
4.5 Market 139,860.00
of asset deterioration is greater. Secondly, the heavy demand will accelerate the deterioration
at a faster rate is left unattended. Utilization demand is also important in the social services,
where a priority should be given to high use facilities.
5. Considering the Relatively High Negative Impact
This refers to an external impact and is particularly relevant in terms of environment and health
impacts. These include flooding and health problems associated with deteriorated sanitation
and health services.
6. Considering Community Needs
Prioritizing maintenance activities should be particularly concerned with addressing community
concerns. Local communities and users have direct experience of poor or deteriorated services
and infrastructure and provide an important and valuable input to the prioritization process.
7. Considering the Crossover Effect
An additional area to be explored in the prioritization process is that of crossover affects. For
example, it is useful to check for a correlation between a poor road condition and a poor
drainage condition, which could indicate that the road deterioration is caused by poor drainage.
In that situation, the drains responsible for road deterioration should have a very high priority,
since a relatively small investment in drainage results in a significant saving from limiting road
deterioration, where the cost of road maintenance would be much higher. Based on these
criteria the municipality identifies the following top priority maintenance needs to be carried
out in the three years project period.
Maintanance
Specific location Kebele Unit length Width Area unit rate Amount condition
activity
From To
New Bus Station Mishin O/Adola m2 100 11 1,100.00 200 220,000.00 Depression poor
2
Derartu Chefe Natnael House B/Bilu m 160 15 2,400.00 200 480,000.00 Depression poor
KILTA
Kera Culvert Hospital Asphalt m2 100 15 1,500.00 200 300,000.00 Depression poor
EBA
Total Carried for Movement Network 1,000,000.00
B.Engineering Equipments
A. Movement Network
B. Engineering Equipment
Equipment’s 2,000,000.00
Table 96 Summary of Three - Year Proposed Rolling Program by Strategic Area and Activities
% of
No Strategic Area EFY 2016 EFY 2017 EFY 2018 Total
total
Movement
A 9,211,169.76 14,177,935.55 16,897,928.18 40,287,033.49 27%
Network
Water Supply
B 0.00
Network
Economic &
C Social 0.00 5,367,446.30 5,518,772.00 10,886,218.30 7%
Services
Environmental
D 2,833,559.04 30,564,818.25 41,814,701.92 75,213,079.21 51%
Services
E Other 2,146,272.66 2,081,016.00 4,321,435.90 8,548,724.56 6%
Municipal
Administration
F Buildings and 1434231.56 1,434,231.56 1%
Other Projects
which cannot
be put in
Pillars
Consultancy
G 0 744,286.95 0 744,286.95 1%
service
Capacity
H 2,021,906.00 2,426,280.00 4,448,186.00 3%
Building
Total 14,191,002.00 60,357,301.80 72,428,762 146,977,065.80 100%
Table 98: Three Year Maintenance Budget for the town for EFY 2016 to 2018 depending on CIP
S/N Infrastructure Maintenance Maintenance Maintenance Total
Category Budget for Budget for Budget for Budget for 3
EFY 2016 EFY 2017 EFY 2018 years
A Movement Network 0
1 Roads 0
1.1 Cobblestone Road
1.2 Gravel Road 1,000,000 3,000,000 5,000,000 9,000,000
1.3 Compacted Earth
Road
2 Pedestrian Walkways
2.1 Cobble walkway
3 Road Structure
B Water Supply 0
C Environmental 0
Services
1 Drainage 0
1.1 Open masonry drain
2 Sanitation
Surplus/deficit 0 0 0 0
Arranging the major institutional requirements is the first step that includes establishing clear
institutional responsibilities and duties and providing all necessary hardware and software
required for AMP implementation. According to the AMP manual in fulfilling the procedural
requirements maintaining the databases and ensuring the ongoing integrity of the data will be
the primary concern. To achieve this, the municipality requires clear guidelines on operating and
maintaining the data. It also needs high capacity computer in the AMP unit to work with the GIS
software, together with external drive to back-up the data Furthermore the municipality and
the AMP team should have an official copy of the latest version of Arc-Info, the GIS software
from ESRI.
For effective and sustainable AMP implementation the municipality then needs to move towards
implementing GIS-based management system. Therefore, the implementation should begin with
establishment of institutional and organizational structure for the AMP within the city
administration. According to the manual the institutional setup should incorporate clearly
defined roles and relationships for all parties involved with, or contributing towards, the AMP. As
described in the manual this involves the following actions on the part of the municipality:
1. Defining AMP team as formal, recognized, organizational unit within the City
Administration.
2. Defining the AMP unit’s relationship with the City Administration. It is recommended that
this unit be situated in the City Manager’s Office.
3. A staffing plan for the AMP team. The team requires at least two people, an AMP focal
person and an assistant, with the latter being responsible for ongoing survey work.
4. Providing a job description and ToR for the AMP focal person. The over role of the role of
the AMP focal person is to build the GIS project and manage the GIS system.
The focal person will take responsibility for the city’s AMP and build linkages with the line
departments having responsibility for the different categories of assets included in the
AMP. The focal person, in this case, will ensure the building of the spatial database and
the database of physical properties for all assets. In most of the cases the focal person will
work with the CIP team and department representatives.
5. Clearly defining the roles that all departments and other administrative units, that are
responsible, operationally, for one or more categories of assets included in the AMP, have
with regard to the AMP. This involves identifying a person with the department who will
be directly responsible for liaising with the AMP focal person in respect of the categories of
assets lying within their operational responsibility. In addition clearly stating the duties of
that person to provide information to the AMP focal person as and when required is
necessary.
10.2 Managing Transition of all Completed New Works and Maintenance
Projects
The methodology and guidelines indicated in the manual for the implementation process and
measuring and assessing the implementation performance regarding new works and
maintenance projects are summarized below to guide the overall process of the implementation
strategy and performance measurement.
Once each maintenance activity has been completed, change the condition indicator
for the asset in question to reflect the new status
10.2.2. Tracking New Works Projects
Tracking the New Works projects requires that the AMP team maintain a close working
relationship with the Project Manager for New Works; the Procurement Specialist; and the
Construction Manager. If this is done properly then the tracking of New Works, and the
subsequent management of the New Works database, is a relatively simple exercise, following
the four tasks set out above.
The first of these is to confirm that all of the projects identified as approved under Step 9 will
actually be constructed. Issues of procurement or cash flow could still change this list, or change
the years of the construction starting date. At this point any projects that have been amended, or
removed from the list of new projects, should be updated or deleted from the New Works
database TDS 3 and the proposed starting dates for approved final proposals should be recorded
in the field allocated to this purpose.
It is then important that the AMP focal person liaises with the Procurement Specialist so that (s)
he is aware of the date when each new contract is signed. As this is done the date should be
entered in the database, together with the contractual completion date.
During the construction phase the AMP focal person should liaise on a regular basis with the
Construction Manager. When the project has been completed, and handed over to the city, it
should be checked for any changes to the project that might have taken place between the
original approval of the project by the city and the completion of construction. This is important
because it is the final ‘as built’ project that will be entered into the asset management database
as an existing asset, not the original project description.
At this point the project should be transferred from the New Works database to the set of
databases for existing assets. This is the feedback loop shown in the introduction to this manual.
The database for New Works will already have a breakdown of the project by feature class. This
will then form the basis for transforming the New Works into new assets in Step 3 (the spatial
database and the physical attribute dataset); defining the condition in Step 4 (the Condition
Indicator database); and the Costing dataset in Step 6 (the Cost and Value database).
The list below covers all the key dates that should be noted and entered into the fields provided
in the new works projects database.
Approval
Date of tender invitation
Date of tender closure
Date of signing of a contract
Date of start of activity
Date of project completion
Date of handover to the city
Date when the new projects is entered into the database for existing assets
The list below covers all the key dates that should be noted and entered into the fields provided
in the maintenance planning database.
Approval
Date of signing of a contract
Date of start of activity
Date of completion of activity
Date when the condition of the asset is updated
available in the past. This means that, for the first time, it is possible to measure the performance
of past projects and activities against the original plan.
The AMP is due for completion towards the end of the (Ethiopian Calendar) year. This means
that it is not possible to provide a complete analysis for the year in which the assessment of
existing assets is being carried out. To make the tracking process worthwhile, the analysis should
begin by focusing on the previous year, i.e. AMP year minus 2, where a full set of statistics should
be available. This provides the comparative analysis. The tables below provide templates for
measuring the performance of new works projects and maintenance activities respectively. The
table for maintenance is more comprehensive because it can draw on activities completed in the
year. Also, this is the more important table for the AMP since the maintenance performance is
more directly associated with the AMP, whereas the performance of new works project starts falls
under the CIP.
cattle
quarantine
house
1 Movement Network
8-Dec-
1.1 Gravel Road Maintenance 3,216,000.00 10-Sep-23 3-Dec-23 13-Feb-23
23