Exponent's asset management services help you anticipate, plan, and make better decisions regarding maintenance priorities and operational decisions.
For industries with networks of distributed assets, like electric and gas utilities, extreme weather patterns create challenges for asset management, including infrastructure damage as well as lost operations and production. Extreme weather events like tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones raise the risk of infrastructure failure through flood and wind damage. In addition, more frequent and severe droughts and increased temperatures and fuel loads are heightening the risk of asset failures leading to catastrophic wildfires.
Our team of structural engineers, environmental and ecological scientists, metallurgists, data scientists, and other professionals has developed innovative risk modeling methods by applying a quantitative framework using Bayesian updating — a statistical method that updates a hypothesis' probability as data changes or becomes available — for management of distributed asset networks.
The quantitative framework provides data for a cutting-edge asset modeling tool that enables evaluation of asset degradation and subsequent risks. Using preexisting data sets, we can perform assessments to help clients determine the environmental and safety risks of continued operation and perform cost-benefit analyses for a power shutoff or other operational decisions.
Services
For 50+ years, we’ve thrived on solving unstructured problems that require bespoke solutions. Some of our services include:
• Evaluation of climate-related hazards
• Maintaining regulatory compliance amidst changing climate conditions
• Evaluating climate change impacts on the frequency and severity of floods and droughts
• Vulnerability assessment relative to climate-related hazards
• Conditions assessment to establish present-day baselines
• Degradation modeling to account for climate-related changes in asset threats
• Component testing and failure analysis
• Infrastructure inspection planning
• Bayesian updating and analysis, calibrating theoretical models based on real-life data
Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled
With expertise in over 90 disciplines and hundreds of capabilities, tools, and methodologies — we get to the root of even the most complex challenges and give you the objective answers you need.
Sustainability & Climate Change
Scientific and engineering insights to improve and quantify sustainability practices and secure vital resources and assets.
Water Sciences & Management
Sophisticated water consulting services, helping clients adapt to climate change and sustainability challenges.
Environmental & Regulatory Compliance
Rigorous analyses to help clients overcome complex environmental and regulatory hurdles and meet auditing obligations.
Environmental Assessment & Remediation
Conduct timely, accurate site assessment to identify risks and remediation options.
Industrial Contamination Management
Expert environmental services for a range of complex industrial contamination challenges.
Experts
Our global and comprehensive expertise across industries gives us a deep understanding of current challenges, best industry practices, and the implications of emerging technologies.
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