How can agencies on limited budgets maximize their capital infrastructure assets for long-term value? Harris & Associates enables deliberate, informed planning to help prioritize your system’s maintenance and upgrades.
History shows that a “worst first” approach to maintenance and repairs isn’t always the optimal asset management strategy. Whether you’re a city looking to improve your Pavement Condition Index, a water utility seeking guidance on your long-term capital improvement plan, or trying to understand how climate change will affect your assets longer term, you need clear insights to guide your investment priorities. Harris & Associates helps agencies make data-driven decisions about their infrastructure and take a “best value first” approach to managing critical assets.
Translating Data into Action
Our expert team bridges the gap between collecting and leveraging data to drive results. We partner with key decision makers to analyze infrastructure assets and offer guidance to navigate the political dynamics involved, including Board approvals for capital investments that become community improvements.
Covering Every Angle
Improving infrastructure performance and resilience, increasing sustainability, reducing overall costs—our holistic approach to asset management delivers comprehensive benefits. We deliver thorough asset inventories (tracking age, condition, and criticality) along with proactive operation and maintenance recommendations. We also support long-range financial planning with replacement options based on cost-benefit analyses.
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Infrastructure + Utilities
Infrastructure + Utilities
Harris helps agencies manage their municipal systems amid challenges like aging infrastructure, affordability, climate change, and stakeholder engagement. Across our Infrastructure + Utilities services—from capital project prioritization to data analytics—we employ a systems-wide approach that addresses the technical, economic, and social variables that lead to successful master planning.
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Risk + Resilience
Risk + Resilience
Harris delivers a tailored approach to help cities create resilient communities. We factor societal and economic systems, regulations, and data into the process to identify potential risks and improve communities’ ability to recover from shocks to critical systems from natural disasters and exacerbating impacts caused by climate change.
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Water + Sewer System Management
Water + Sewer System Management
Harris teams with water utility leaders to evaluate water and wastewater assets and to create plans and strategies to optimize system operations. Clients rely on us for:
- Strategic planning
- GIS and data management
- Water modeling
- Water and wastewater system planning and assessment
- Design and construction
- Water and wastewater utility financial modeling
- Rate analyses
- Public engagement
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Pavement Management Programs (PMP)
Pavement Management Programs (PMP)
The typical street deteriorates by 35% in its first 10 to 12 years. Agencies often take action after this point—and spend more than is necessary. Harris' PMP experts help inform decisions around street rehabilitation to get the most from agency budgets. Our services include:
- Pavement management software and system selection
- Condition survey and analysis
- GPS and data collection
- Capital improvement planning
- GIS integration
- MTC StreetSaver® Power Users for inventory management
Infrastructure + Utilities
Harris helps agencies manage their municipal systems amid challenges like aging infrastructure, affordability, climate change, and stakeholder engagement. Across our Infrastructure + Utilities services—from capital project prioritization to data analytics—we employ a systems-wide approach that addresses the technical, economic, and social variables that lead to successful master planning.
