Spend some time around Tacoma Water, and you might not hear the word “maintenance” very much.It’s not that the utility serving the city of Tacoma and surrounding communities in Washington state doesn’t care about keeping up its infrastructure. Just the opposite. At Tacoma Water, they’re a lot more likely to talk about “asset management.”That’s not just a fancy term meaning the same thing. Asset management means thinking a lot bigger. Tacoma Water defines it this way: “An integrated set of processes to minimize the life cycle costs of owning, operating and maintaining assets at an acceptable level of risk, while
