David Anderson, CET, President
David Anderson is an Asset Management Specialist with over 30 years of experience as a municipal employee, and over 14 years as a consultant. His municipal career began in surveys and inspection and advanced to spend the latter 20 years of his municipal career at the senior manager or department head level. Dave’s municipal work experience includes municipalities at the upper-tier, lower-tier, and single-tier levels. His responsibilities have included all infrastructure types and road systems of up to 1,425 centre line-kilometers.
His range of experience includes public works engineering and operations, engineering studies for all types of infrastructure, including Class Environmental Assessments, Master Plans, Road Needs Studies, and capital planning and program implementation. In the fall of 2000, Dave became the first Manager of Engineering and Infrastructure for the newly formed Haldimand County, and was tasked with creating an engineering department for a single tier municipality, responsible for capital programming, asset management for all assets, including roads, water and waste water (linear and treatment), structures, and municipal drains, and development review.
During his municipal career, and then as a consultant, Dave has completed approximately 300 Asset Management related reports including Road Needs Studies /State of the Infrastructure Reports (data collection and reporting) following the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario’s Inventory Manual for Municipal Roads methodology, and Asset Management plans for core assets.
Of particular relevance, is that in 2010, Dave developed a 2-day course now offered regularly by OGRA entitled ’Managing the Risk’, that focuses on the MTO Inventory Manual, Pavement Management and Pavement defects. Dave has also given conference presentations on Gravel Road Conversions.
Dave has also delivered a number of other presentations at various conferences, workshops, and seminars on Asset Management. Additionally, he has been involved with Ontario Good Roads Association’s (OGRA) ‘Municipal Infrastructure Training Scott MacKay Bituminous Technology Course’ and the ‘Guelph Road School’ since 1997.
More recently, Dave was the chair of OGRA’s Academy for Municipal Asset Management, Program Advisory and Certification Board from April 2013 to January 2018.