INVESTOR aims to introduce the principles of best practice asset management decision support throughout the water sector's supply chain.

The INVESTOR principles are:

•  Whole Life Cost Modelling
•  Deterioration, Intervention and Failure Modelling
•  Automated Data Collection and Standardisation
•  Data Warehousing and Integration
•  Graphical User Interface and Fly-by

Three pilot studies have been carried out which have demonstrated the benefits of the key principles above.