Capital Delivery Optimization and Best Practices

Capital Delivery Optimization and Best PracticesAbstractThis is a historic time in the water, wastewater, and stormwater world of critical needs where 50B in federal funding has been made available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The funding can address legacy projects in need of funding, or new projects that need further planning and development to solve local flooding, watershed water quality, regulatory compliance, or asset management problems in our communities. This new funding coupled with continued supply chain delays and continued construction cost inflation has provided a number of challenges to efficient and cost-effective capital program delivery. Utilities are also facing rate increase pressures and asking if they are planning, designing and constructing their capital program projects in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Northern Kentucky Sanitation District No. 1 (SD1) was faced with this same challenge to efficiently deliver its capital program amidst rate increase pressures, take advantage of SRF funding, and ramp up its annual capital spending from less than 20M to 150M to meet regulatory and asset management requirements. SD1 decided to not hire an outside program management firm and instead called on existing engineering and operations staff to be the program management team. SD1 had 4. 5 FTEs total - one Director of Planning Baseline budget compliance; Change Orders; Scope Creep; Program Cashflow target compliance to closely monitor projects and communicate clear expectations and accountability for their project delivery staff. Organizational Review. Evaluate spans and layers within the Capital Delivery Division: Review should include: obenchmarking across peers Planning, Design and Construction. oIn-house Easement Acquisition and Negotiations SD1 had two field staff that, in addition to their construction oversight work, also negotiated easements for projects. Automation Blue Cypress Consulting LLC 2; Sanitation District No 13;SourceProceedings of the Water Environment FederationDocument typeConference PaperPublisherWater Environment FederationPrint publication date Feb 2024DOI10. 2175/193864718825159285Volume / Issue Content sourceUtility Management ConferenceWord count7