Context
Le Havre Seine Métropole is the public authority responsible for drinking water services for over 270,000 residents in Normandy. The territory includes both dense urban areas and peri-urban communities, requiring a robust and forward-looking asset management strategy. The community sought to improve its visibility on infrastructure aging and better anticipate long-term investment needs, while ensuring quality of service and resilience in the face of environmental and regulatory pressures.
Our solution
- 01 Centralization, formalization, and digitization of heritage asset knowledge
- 02 Simulation of asset aging based on Oxand’s proprietary aging laws, maintenance actions, and cost base
- 03 Simulation and optimization of investment scenarios to support strategic decision-making
What Oxand delivered
Prioritized investment planning
Informed and prioritized investment planning
Structured asset knowledge
Structured and professionalized asset knowledge management
Questions about this reference
What is Le Havre Seine Métropole responsible for?
The drinking water service for over 270,000 residents in Normandy, across 54 municipalities that range from dense urban areas to peri-urban communities.
Why does that mix of territories change the asset problem?
Because the same network serves very different densities. What is economic to renew in a dense area is not necessarily so in a peri-urban one, which is why the strategy has to be forward-looking rather than uniform.
What did the authority want to improve?
Its visibility on how the infrastructure is ageing, and its ability to anticipate long-term investment needs while holding service quality and resilience against environmental and regulatory pressure.
How was the work carried out?
By centralising, formalising and digitising what was known about the assets, then simulating their ageing using ageing laws, maintenance actions and a cost base, and finally simulating and optimising investment scenarios.
What does the authority hold at the end?
Investment planning that is informed and prioritised, and asset knowledge management that is structured rather than dependent on individual experience.