Addressing Risk in Engineering Asset Management

Dear Colleagues,

Engineered physical assets such as infrastructure, industrial facilities and buildings are the backbone of modern societies. Organizations dealing with this type of assets, both public and private, often operate with restricted budgets while having to satisfy demanding performance requirements of various stakeholders under risky and uncertain environments. In order to face these challenges, asset intensive organizations of several types have been adopting asset management principles and techniques to optimize life cycle decisions such as those related to short- and long-term capital investment planning, maintenance strategies, operational plans and asset disposal. These organization have been refining their decision-making processes with prioritization criteria that seek the balancing of cost, risk and performance to assure that optimum value is being derived throughout the entire life cycle of their portfolio of physical assets. In this regard and especially when there is the need to express in plain terms the societal impacts deriving from asset failures, several organizations are formally adopting asset risk management programs.

The present special issue intends to comprise a selection of papers reporting the latest research and case studies discussing the trends and emerging strategies to address risk in asset intensive organizations and exploring how risk-based thinking can help push the boundaries of sophistication and innovation to improve the life cycle management of engineered assets.

Papers submitted to this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer-review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Dr. Nuno Almeida
Dr. Hugo Rodrigues
Dr. Damjan Maletič
Guest Editors

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