ICE Ontario Lecture - Asset Management for Municipal Water Infrastructure

The first presentation introduces APSIS InSAR satellite-based leak detection technology, demonstrating how deformation monitoring can identify and locate pipe failures proactively before they escalate into service disruptions or public health events. The second presentation bridges from data to decision, exploring how water asset managers can embed condition intelligence within a rigorous asset management framework, covering deterioration modelling, corridor risk analysis, levels of service target-setting, scenario-based funding optimization, and long-range capital forecasting. Together, the presentations offer a practical roadmap from signal detection through to evidence-based investment and Council approval.

This session is a hybrid event, and will be hosted by Darush Esmaili and Nick Martyn.

Daryush Esmaili

Daryush Esmaili, P.Eng, FIAM is Vice President at Aspire Consulting Group and a Fellow of the Institute of Asset Management. With over 15 years of progressive experience across the full asset lifecycle, Daryush has supported more than 50 organizations in developing and maturing their infrastructure asset management capabilities, from building in-house asset management teams to leading design, construction, and infrastructure planning programs, and facilitating evidence-based capital budgeting processes that integrate best practices in engineering, asset management, project management, and risk management.
Daryush is currently a PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at McMaster University, where his research focuses on integrated corridor planning and sustainability performance measurement for highway infrastructure. He serves as Convenor of ISO TC251 Working Group 11, leading the development of international guidance on integrating sustainability requirements within asset management systems. He is also a member of the IAM Exam Board and is supporting the Institute of Asset Management in updating their Competences Framework, the globally recognized standard for professional development in the field.

Nick Martyn

Nick Martyn is the founder and CEO of RiskLogik, a Graduate member of ICE and a PhD candidate in Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Toronto, specializing in infrastructure risk and spatial data analysis. Nick is a retired Canadian Army Officer with 28 years of service. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada and the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College. Nick founded RiskLogik in 2010 because of his experience developing the Afghan National Development Strategy where key leaders were faced with dramatic and complex infrastructure decisions to make but had no tools to help them reduce the complexity to actionable alternatives they could have confidence in. RiskLogik evolved to provide integrated infrastructure risk, spatial data and climate risk analysis tools to help leaders make evidence-based and scientifically supportable multi-criteria decisions with the full understanding of the social, operational, financial and economic consequences. His recent work focusses on the application of APIS Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSIS InSAR) technology to municipal pipeline leak detection to enable pre-emptive interventions.

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