Urban Infrastructure Management

This GLOMACS Urban Infrastructure Management training course focuses on the complexity of the socio-technical systems that provide basic services to more than 50% of the world’s population. As the urban population continues to increase, the role played by urban infrastructures in the delivery of services (such as energy, transport, and water) becomes crucial. And in the view of the current crisis of energy supply, which was man-made, the management and governance of such complex socio-technical systems becomes vital to ensuring their performance.

This training course is dedicated to deliver information to the delegates about the main challenges as well as the main schools of thought in managing and governing urban infrastructures, which are currently prevalent in modern world. Urban Infrastructure management should provide an optimal and coherent approach to managing and expanding your urban infrastructure over the long term. It allows urban infrastructure managers to optimize investment and returns while supporting decision-makers in reconciling short-term pressures and long-term priorities.

This GLOMACS Urban Infrastructure Management training course will highlight:

• Principles and methods of urban infrastructure management
• Current challenges within the sustainability of energy use
• Urban infrastructure use of technology and communication
• Urban energy, transport, water, and food supply systems
• Modern risks and challenges within the urban infrastructure projects.

At the end of this Urban Infrastructure Management training course, you will learn to:

• Identify the project management principles for urban infrastructure
• Learn the details of urban infrastructure
• Acquire the knowledge needed to tackle challenges of urban infrastructure management
• Adopt the use of modern technologies and timeless principles in urban infrastructure management
• Use the emerging and existing technologies for improving the level of service in urban infrastructure management

The training course is designed for all the people involved in urban development as well as researchers and consultants involved into management, analytics, optimization, project management and transport optimization.

This GLOMACS Urban Infrastructure Management training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Researchers, students and practitioners in urban management
• Professionals in urban planning
• Architects involved in urban design
• Project managers
• Technology engineers, CTOs and CIOs
• Strategic development personnel
• Transport engineers and researchers