Sources and reference framework
This site uses cross-sector asset-management principles and keeps discipline-specific engineering criteria with the relevant standards, regulators and asset owners.
ISO 55000 and ISO 55001
The ISO 55000 family provides the international asset-management vocabulary and framework. The 2024 editions emphasize systematic lifecycle management and balancing performance, risk and expenditure to realize value from assets. ISO 55000:2024 · ISO 55001:2024
FHWA transportation asset management
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration publishes transportation asset-management planning and lifecycle-planning resources that illustrate how owners can connect asset condition, long-term strategies, expenditure forecasts and stewardship. TAMP resources
World Bank quality infrastructure and lifecycle cost
World Bank quality-infrastructure material treats lifecycle cost as including construction, operations and maintenance, supporting a whole-life rather than construction-only view. Quality Infrastructure Investment
EPA water asset management
U.S. EPA asset-management resources provide a sector example of using inventories, maintenance and planned repair/replacement to sustain infrastructure service over time. EPA asset-management tools
Local standards govern real assets
These sources support general asset-management concepts. Actual inspection intervals, condition criteria, engineering interventions, operating procedures, codes and legal obligations vary by asset type and jurisdiction.