Get the most out of your asset inspections with this condition assessment checklist
By: IPWEA Buildings.PLUS
All organisations should be focused on optimising the lifecycle of their building assets. Knowing the current condition of your assets is essential...
Learning from history and the importance of financial sustainability
By: David Jenkins
One of Australia's most significant infrastructure challenges is the mismatch between community expectations of local government service delivery and the revenues which...
The Future of Asset Management
When organisations and societies have focussed on boosting productivity, they have usually looked to labour to provide the gains.
The thinking has been that more...
Professions benefit from a global approach.
By: David Jenkins
Globalisation may be in retreat in the aftermath of the pandemic and now because of the war in Ukraine. However, there are...
Today’s goal. Long-term financial sustainability
By: David Jenkins
Asset management practice has had a lengthy evolution. However, it has arguably arrived at a point today where all of the relevant...
Toowoomba takes an integrated approach
Like many local government organisations, Toowoomba Regional Council’s various departments were historically siloed in terms of decision making and information sharing.
Realising that this was...
Embracing technology to drive productivity
By: David Jenkins
When organisations and societies have focussed on boosting productivity they have usually looked to labour to provide the gains.
The thinking has been...
Good infrastructure asset management in 2023. Hopes and resolutions
By: David Jenkins
Many of us take the opportunity of the new year to come up with some resolutions and hopes for the year ahead....
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...
AUS-SPEC collaborates with industry for 2022 update
By Emma Green, NATSPEC Communications
AUS-SPEC always works to respond to the needs of local governments around the country. For this reason, AUS-SPEC maintains multiple...
