IPWEA courses stoked my passion for asset management: Kevin J. Smith from Fire Rescue...
Kevin J. Smith needs to be at the top of his game every day, especially during bushfire season. As Contracts, Safety, Security and Compliance...
New ways of living require a new approach
By: David Jenkins
The pandemic lockdowns have left us with some diametrically opposed approaches on how people want to configure their home and work lives.
On...
Three Ratios That Can Tell You Almost Everything About Your Fleet
Fleet practitioners are often overwhelmed by data. Modern fleet systems can generate hundreds of reports covering utilisation, fuel consumption, maintenance costs, downtime, incidents, emissions,...
Custodians of community assets
Elected Local Government members are key stakeholders in asset management, but with their election come responsibilities.
Many of the key decision makers responsible for the...
Why added funding is needed to maintain Australia’s bridges
When a road bridge collapsed in the US city of Pittsburgh in January, injuring four people but thankfully killing no one, there was a...
NZ looks for a new funding fix for infrastructure
By Steve Mooney
New Zealand has a well-recognised infrastructure deficit impacting transport, productivity, housing and the nation’s quality of life.
The most often quoted figure for...
Auckland Transport harnesses AI to build resilience
In 2023 New Zealand’s largest city Auckland experienced two extreme weather events. Weeks of heavy rain culminated in tropical Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023,...
Asset managers at home in Christchurch
David Pinkney and Irmana Sampedro are both originally from Europe, but both asset management professions now call the New Zealand city of Christchurch home...
The Hidden Opportunity in Not Funding Infrastructure
By Steve Mooney
So much of what asset managers do focuses on maintaining and repairing assets so they remain useful and continue to deliver services...
Systems Thinking and The Language of Infrastructure
Building on my earlier article on systems thinking, I have spent some time reflecting on a deeper issue that sits beneath how we plan,...
