Helping build greater capacity and capability for elected members
By: David Jenkins
When people are elected as councillors or mayors of their local government authority or local municipality, they are also elected as stewards...
Accounting for assets
Tanya Garost started her professional career as an accountant and had been working in Canada’s local government sector for around five years when changes...
Marc Sibbald Q&A
The fleet management industry has such a diverse range of people and roles, and everyone has a unique story of their journey in our...
From rugby to asset management
Tom Crozier grew up in the south-east of England with the dream of being a professional rugby player and after achieving that, his ambitions...
The power of positive transformation: Infrastructure strategist Don Sun
With an extensive background in operations improvement, Don Sun’s entry into asset management five years ago as Operations Strategist for the City of Calgary...
Asset management in the Arctic Circle
Since the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut attained self-government a quarter of a century ago, Pascual Rubio says there has been a resurgence in...
How an ‘Ask Your Mates’ post resulted in an asset management success story
In August 2021, Nikhil Ajgaonkar shared a post on the IPWEA ‘Ask Your Mates’ forum.
Ajgaonkar, a civil engineer who was living in Sydney at...
Optimism in the face of emergency
When Richard Threlfall began his career in infrastructure, issues of sustainability were not a big priority.
Over the last few years, however, they have become...
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...
Two global perspectives: How the pandemic has changed our working lives
In March 2020, the way the world went about working changed radically. Two local government engineering leaders from different parts of the globe share...
