Asset Management: Condition and Performance

Event: Improving Services to Customers in the Pacific: Condition Assessments

Asset Management: Condition and Performance

14 April 2021

Author / Speaker:

Dean Taylor, Hunter H2O - Other materials by the author

Sharvint Chand, Hunter H2O Fiji - Other materials by the author

James Young, Public Utilities Board: Kiribati - Other materials by the author

Mohammed Rafiqshan Ali, Nauru Utilities Corporation - Other materials by the author

Rhiannon Morgan, HunterH2O - Other materials by the author

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The speakers set the scene with an overview of the discipline of asset management. He highlighted the importance of asset managers knowing their assets as the foundation for the implementation of sound asset management. He also emphasized the importance of good data management as an essential feature of an asset management system. The use of tools such as spreadsheets was highlighted as an effective and low-cost way for utilities to organize and analyze their data.

Sharvint Chand explained the concepts of condition rating and condition assessment that are described in detail in the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) manual Condition Assessment & Asset Performance Guidelines – Practice Note 7.

James Young, CEO of the Public Utilities Board in Kiribati highlighted the importance of ongoing monitoring to preemptively detect and act on asset defects before they become major problems.

Ali Mohammed, General Manager (Operations) from Nauru Utilities Corporation also emphasized the importance of good asset information for the effective delivery of high-quality customer services.

Rhiannon Morgan stressed the importance of condition assessments of turning data into information to plan for maintenance and upgrades or replacements.

Type of Content:

Learning Event

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