Visual Assessment Manual for Utility Assets

This manual has been prepared to help people conduct mainly visual assessments of smaller civil plant such as buildings, tanks and pumping stations plus routine visual assessment of the associated mechanical and electrical equipment (pumps, control boards, telemetry and alarms). While it may be useful for people inspecting larger plants and assets servicing more than 10,000 people, it is mainly aimed at small to medium plants and assets servicing between 101 and 10,000 people.

The manual is also intended to be useful for people managing condition assessments or using the outputs to see how the assets change in service and to establish threshold conditions that show when some form of intervention – repair, maintenance or replacement - is required.