In 2005, the City of Hamilton produced a Life-Cycle State of the Infrastructure (SOTI) Report for Public
Works Assets, as well as a State of the Infrastructure Report Card for those assets. This report and a 2009 updated report
showed that many of the asset groups had deteriorated to undesirable levels and as a result City Council requested
staff to report on the practical options for increasing the condition of these assets to a B+ rating over a ten-year period.
For bridge and major culvert structures this required the use of the advanced tools of a Bridge Management System
(BMS 2010) which could determine prioritized needs and budgets, predict changes in future bridge condition index
(BCI) for various funding levels, and perform risk analysis to develop a risk profile for the City’s structures inventory.
The analysis determined the effects on report card grade for various funding level