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AUTHORS: Ritchie Jenkins, Missouri Department of Conservation
ABSTRACT: Over the past 80 years, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has accumulated 1,192 properties, with 1,700 buildings on them. MDC has nearly 1,000 miles of roads with over 500 acres of parking lots, and 50 vehicular bridges. Most of these assets are to provide public access but some are critical to delivering resource management services at hatcheries and wetlands. At wetlands, there are almost 50 pump stations and nearly 1,000 water control structures that help biologists manage wetland resources. The variety of infrastructure in these few examples demonstrates the breadth of MDC's infrastructure portfolio. But I ask you to pause and think about the individual components that work together to make a nature center or a pump station function. Those components include compressors, back flow preventers, valves, electric motors, boilers, hydraulic actuators, flow meters, submersible pumps, vertical turbines, variable frequency drives, diesel power units and transfer switches. The depth of MDC's infrastructure portfolio runs very deep. It's this breadth and depth of infrastructure that helps make Conservation so successful across Missouri, but it's also what makes managing the infrastructure portfolio so complex. MDC has positioned itself to be able to efficiently manage their aging portfolio to make good use of the funds that have been entrusted to them. Participants will be lead through the thought process and challenges associated with real world struggles in managing your infrastructure portfolio for conservation.
Tuesday October 31, 2017 1:20pm - 1:40pm EDT
Beckham