摘要: |
IKO Road is proud to support the latest Highways Asks survey, which has given fresh insight into repair techniques and some of the opportunities for efficiencies in this area. The survey shows that in some cases councits could need to revisit a repair several times even in the space of a few years. That is a maintenance cycle that has to be broken if we are to work our way out of financial constraints. To break this cycle, we neerd to understand how a suite of techniques and different materials can be targeted in different areas to produce the best results. At the heart of the issue, lies the conundrum of whole-life cost; how we understand it and how we apply it. Unfortunately, it seems we still have some way to go on this, with a large section of the sector conceding that such calculations are not possible due to financial constraints. Of course, the Catch-22 here is that without a proper understanding of whole-life costs we can't deliver maximum value for money. |