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We are making it easier to breathe life into your data through new analytics and dashboards that bring together your work-order data and your asset information to provide new insights – first you need to provide your daily work history through automated overnight data transfers. Yes, we have talked about this over the past few years as part of our ‘vision beyond software'.

SPM Assets was pleased to be a major sponsor and participant at this year's Tertiary Education Facilities Management Association (TEFMA) Strategic Asset Management Workshop. The common theme coming through, was that sound Asset Management is becoming increasingly critical in delivering a sustainable and modern tertiary education product.

Kees Beentjes, Asset Management Specialist, shares his thoughts on why some clients struggle with the concept of Levels of Service (LoS), and with the resource requirements to develop these. When working with smaller organisations with few asset management resources, we are often asked the question, “Where is the value to the organisation?”

In light of the topic, we called on the subject matter expertise of Mr Peter Way PSM from our Business Associate, IPWEA, to jointly deliver this Webinar. Peter Way represents IPWEA on the Standards Australia mirror committee that has been involved with the International Committee in writing the Standards, which are currently in the review process.

The 2017 Conference had particular relevance in Houston given the city’s resilience and recovery following the recent hurricane and citywide flooding. Education sessions covered topics from global technology trends in facility management, application of artificial intelligence, and information as-built to optimising space utilisation and much more.

Continuous improvement of Otago Polytechnic’s asset planning approach covers strategic asset management planning, lifecycle forecasts, and evidence-based business cases for capital spending decisions. Their key goals were to: inform its strategic planning solutions, create improved management reporting and understand the cost to maintain the built environment.

Chris Jenkins recently posted a response to a discussion on IPWEA’S Ask Your Mates forum about the remaining useful lives of municipal assets. Chris is SPM Assets Technical Director and has had over 20 years of experience with these types of infrastructure assets. Rather than keeping this discussion within this closed forum, we are sharing it more widely with this post.

Thinking long term means that we need to think well beyond the scheduled maintenance and servicing tasks. We need to think beyond reactive maintenance. We need to think beyond 5 years or even 10 years, and realise that to ensure properties are managed in a sustainable way, we need to think 30 years out. This is where NAMS in NZ and IPWEA in AU have stepped in.

Asset Planning Specialist Kerrie Warwick takes time out to explain the difference between 'condition' and 'defects' - terms which are often confused and misused. Asset Managers who treat condition and defects separately will make better informed planning decisions and get more from their lifecycle and maintenance funding sources.