Case Study

Optimizing asset management at the City of Laval

Published on October 10th, 2024

PROJECT SUMMARY

Faced with aging infrastructure, the City of Laval needed to optimize how it allocated its human and financial resources to guarantee reliable service to its residents and businesses.

To do so, the City wanted to create comprehensive investment plans for its water, sewer, and road networks.

In four months of using Direxyon’s Asset Investment Planning solution, Laval had structured its asset and financial data, modeled its assets’ degradation, and developed 100-year, integrated investment scenarios.

With the insights delivered through Direxyon, Laval anticipates that it will reduce its annual investments, asset failures, and infrastructure deficit in the short, medium, and long-term.

Objectives

The City of Laval, facing aging infrastructure, looked to optimize how it allocated its human and financial resources.

The goal was to guarantee an adequate level of service for its residents and businesses by creating short-, medium-, and long-term investment plans for its water, sewer, and road networks.

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Challenges

Aging infrastructure: Need for an integrated plan to evaluate and prioritize interventions.

Coordination of interventions: Integration of work on drinking water, sewer and road networks sharing street rights-of-way.

Optimization of resources: Effective use of existing data to forecast future needs and budgets.

Risk management: Analysis of failure probabilities and proposal of optimal investment scenarios.

Solutions

Within 4 months of using Direxyon, the City of Laval had:

All its asset, financial, and risk data structured within the AIP solution.
Three types of linear assets modeled for degradation.
Expertise and decision-making standardized into decision-trees.
Two integrated investment scenarios spanning 100 years, with more in development.

Expected results

Thanks to the Direxyon solution, the City of Laval has integrated investment plans spanning several decades.

Based on previous experience working with municipalities in similar capacity, the City of Laval can expect to see the following results:

50% reduction in annual investment required to achieve a similar or better level of service.
50% reduction in break rates.
30% reduction in infrastructure deficit.

“With Direxyon, we were able to analyze the impact of various investment scenarios on the service levels of our infrastructures. Thanks to this, we are confident that we can align our intervention strategies in the short, medium and long term.”

Nathalie Periche
Head of Asset Management and Planning,
City of Laval

Direxyon Municipal Solutions

How Direxyon’s Asset Investment Planning suite helps municipalities plan for a sustainable future.

Map all your assets

Import all your asset data from any source, format, or vendor and visualize them on a map, by neighbourhood, by projects, costs, etc.

Compare your strategies

Simulate and compare asset intervention strategies to see their long-term viability based on cost, risk, performance, etc.

Create your investment plan

Select priority initiatives and plan your investments accordingly. Allocate resources to your entire municipal infrastructure portfolio: water, roads, buildings, transportation, etc.