Take part in IMESA’s pre-conference workshop on infrastructure asset management on 28 October 2014 at the Durban Country Club.
The workshop will focus on using IMESA’s AMPLE and other tools to get started, and managing valuable infrastructure portfolios through a structured and cost-effective, step-by-step asset management improvement programme. What is AMPLE? The Asset Management Program Learning Environment (AMPLE) is a web-enabled knowledge management system which aims to present a means by which organisations and their staff can gain an understanding of:- the principles of life-cycle asset management in a logical, cost-effective, step-by-step process
- the essential components of a state-of-the-art asset management programme
- ‘how to do it’ information to drive their asset management improvement programme.
- are thinking about implementing infrastructure asset management but don’t know where to start
- have started, but would like to see some smart ways to do it more cost-effectively, while deriving even greater benefits for your municipality
- would like to know how IMESA can support you in your efforts.
Topics included in the programme The workshop will follow the highly successful ten-box training programme now used across the USA and with municipal clients in Australia, New Zealand, UK, Canada and South America. Topics will include:
- asset registers, valuation, condition assessment and residual lives, levels of service, business risk exposure, optimal maintenance programmes, ehabilitation/replacement/augmentation, asset management plans, future expenditure and funding models and stakeholder consultation
- getting started – how other did it; the different ways to get started
- change management effective implementation programmes (EIP) — successful AM improvement programmes
- building your first AMP and driving its improvement cost-effectively
- gap analysis techniques and TEAMQF — Roger will demonstrate the Gap-Ex 1 web-based tool so that participants can then go and try it out with their organisation. All participants will be given a free toggle to use the tool
- the business case for improving your AM performance — asset management improvement programmes
- organisational and people issues.
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