The winners of the Asset Management Council’s Asset Management Excellence Awards were announced during the AMPEAK Gala Dinner last night. Here’s a list of the winners in each category:
Asset Management Innovation Award
Jemena – Western Sydney Green Hydrogen Hub
The Western Sydney Green Hydrogen Hub (project) is a power-to-gas project, which sources renewable electricity and water to convert it into hydrogen via electrolysis.
It showcases bi-directional interconnectivity between electricity and gas systems and Australia’s first renewable gas pipeline. The Project provides a pathway to meet the NSW Government’s aspiration to reach 10% hydrogen in the gas network by 2030.
Green hydrogen is blended into the existing network making renewable gas available to Jemena customers. It also tests how to develop affordable energy storage to complement renewable energy generation across wind and solar.
The project uses asset management principles included focusing on the complete asset life-cycle of the existing gas infrastructure and potential impacts related to operation and maintenance from large scale hydrogen blending. With the facility operating Jemena is continually trialling and interpreting the results of the application of hydrogen within the gas pipelines to ensure a detailed understanding of potential impacts to asset management programs across the gas network.
Asset Management Information Management Award
Victorian Department of Health, Asset Performance & Compliance Team – Uplifting Asset Information Management Capability across the Victorian Health System
As part of the department’s efforts to uplift asset management maturity, a major program was established to improve asset information management capabilities across the sector.
The program’s strategic framework is based on three pillars:
- Establishing asset information governance strategy
- Rolling out an asset condition assessment program
- Developing a centralised Asset Information Management System (AIMS).
Additionally, two enablers were established to foster the program’s implementation
- Promoting asset management culture through establishing communities of practice
- Uplifting health services’ asset information management maturity through an asset management plan submission program
Uplifting asset information management capability was the cornerstone for creating momentum in establishing asset management systems across the sector. Acquiring asset information enabled the team to tell the compelling story of the system risks and needs as well as the great opportunities lying ahead to drive improvements and better clinical services across the system as a whole.
Asset Management CRP Award – Cost / Risk/Performance
Transport for NSW Asset Management Branch – Standards Management Framework
The principle of balancing cost, risk and performance across the lifecycle was utilised as the foundation block to develop the strategic vision for Standards and articulate the outcomes the business requires them to deliver across the plethora of assets, networks, and services.
The core principle in achieving the vision is that Standards are an asset (intangible) as they typically describe the physical or functional characteristics of an asset or performance of an asset management function, and they contribute to the manner we deliver services to our customers and achieve our asset management and organisational objectives.
Asset Management Sustainability Award
Ventia – Led Lighting Program for the Defence Base of the Future
Ventia proposed a gainshare program to our client to assess the lifecycle cost of lighting and targeted upgrade of aged and inefficient lighting at defence bases with modern efficient LED lighting. This initiative was part of a broader ‘base of the future’ program
Ventia has developed for our client which includes a program of sustainability initiatives.
The outcome of the initiative included reduced energy consumption, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, maintenance cost reduction to the client, increased reliability, improved lighting quality and safety, with future potential to integrate other smart base initiatives, such as building management systems and smart lighting control.
TfNSW owns ‘long-lived’ assets and are responsible for protecting these assets against natural hazard and human-induced risks and providing safe and reliable transport assets and services.
Asset resilience to account for ambient environmental conditions has been part of TfNSW corporate strategy, plans and engineering design processes for decades. However, increasing natural hazard and human-induced risks have driven a review and re-assessment of the effectiveness of our pre-existing asset resilience strategies, plans, standards, and processes.
This strategy considers longer-term climate model projections in plans, standards, and processes. It will be the standard practice for assessing ambient environmental conditions for future transport asset and service resilience.
Asset Management Resilience Award
Transport for NSW Asset Resilience Working Group – Asset Resilience Strategy
TfNSW owns ‘long-lived’ assets and are responsible for protecting these assets against natural hazard and human-induced risks and providing safe and reliable transport assets and services.
Asset resilience to account for ambient environmental conditions has been part of TfNSW corporate strategy, plans and engineering design processes for decades. However, increasing natural hazard and human-induced risks have driven a review and re-assessment of the effectiveness of our pre-existing asset resilience strategies, plans, standards, and processes.
This strategy considers longer-term climate model projections in plans, standards, and processes. It will be the standard practice for assessing ambient environmental conditions for future transport asset and service resilience.
Asset Management Safety Award
TransGrid – Public Safety Risk Quantification
Transgrid has automated the individual calculation of the public safety risk for each of its 38,000transmission line poles and towers. To improve the calculation of asset risk costs, individual asset component health and human movement data has been used to better quantify the likelihood that people will be in the vicinity of our transmission line assets during various high potential incidents. This approach enables Transgrid to better prioritise and optimise its capital expenditure, design control selection and public awareness strategies. The investment approach target’s assets with elevated probabilities of failure in combination with locations of high criticality to help prevent safety incidents.
Asset Management Diversity Award
Victoria Department of Transport, AECOM & WSP
The asset management team that was formed for the development and delivery of Asset Condition Assessment Project Phase 2 epitomised DoT’s diversity and inclusion principles. The team valued and demonstrated inclusion and diversity, providing a work environment that recognised, respected, valued and leveraged the strengths and differences of the individual team members. The team consisted of 21 team members with a wide range of personal characteristics, including gender (57% female and 43% male), ethnicity (>60% of the team were born overseas), family status, and cultural beliefs as well as diversity of thought and lived experiences. More than ten languages are spoken, and ten different cultures are observed across the team, and no two team members have had the same education or experience in the workforce.
Organisational Asset Management Maturity Award
TransGrid
Recognising and celebrating TransGrid’s progress in asset management assessed using the AMCouncil’s Asset Management Maturity Model.
Founder’s Plate
TransGrid
The Founder’s Plate is awarded in memory of the leadership provided by Brigadier Peter M. Robinson MBE during his quarter century involvement in founding and sustaining the Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia.
Above all Peter recognised the value of attention to detail. This attribute is reflected in the recipient who has demonstrated attention to detail in establishing a “best practice” asset management and maintenance capability in line with the Asset Management Council Models.
TransGrid has won awards in all award categories over many years including the Asset Management Safety Award 2022, and also received the Gold Award for organisational asset management maturity.
MESA Medal
Tom Carpenter
Tom has a long history of contributions to the AMCouncil, and it’s predecessor MESA, from Chapter Chair, Board Member, and presentations at AMPEAK and all Chapters across Australia
Tom has been a leader in the development and implementation of the ISO 55001 management system standard and the creation of a credible accredited certification scheme for asset owners and operators in delivering their services and products. His development and delivery of Government accredited training courses and qualifications in Asset Management has been world leading. His contribution to the WPiAM CAMA and certification schemes has enabled the asset management community to establish asset management as a worldwide credible discipline and professionalization that can sit alongside engineers, project managers and other technical professionals.
It is Tom’s ongoing contribution and commitment to asset Management that is commended in being awarded the MESA medal.
Best Paper
Yury Sokolov – Novel Risk Assessments of Individual Equipment for Effective Decision Making
Yury presented his paper on Tuesday afternoon at 1.20pm in Session 5B.
Best Student Research Poster
Eranga Kankanamge – State-wide Pumping Mains Review – Wastewater Pump Stations SA
This methodology is to be used on SA water assets.