Our New Zealand neighbours held their annual asset management symposium last Thursday along the theme of realising value in New Zealand’s changing environment; emerging trends in asset management. Topics included: The New Zealand 30 year infrastructure strategy; Assuring availability of national assets, complex asset management in the Royal New Zealand Navy; A Central Hawke’s Bay District Council case study on adding value by integrating ‘right-sized’ progressive asset management into infrastructure management; The asset management value proposition, an asset owner’s observations; Sustainable buildings and the asset manager’s role; and asset management, how we might take a Te Ao Māori approach.
Speakers were a diverse bunch of asset management professionals including Ross Copland, CEO of Te Waihanga New Zealand Infrastructure Commission; Luka Baresic, Project Manager, Asset Management Strategy, Babcock International; Joshua Lloyd, GM Community Infrastructure and Development, Central Hawke’s Bay District Council; Myles Lind; Interim GM Chief Engineer and Asset Management, Auckland Transport; Amanda Bryan, Principal Sustainability Consultant, Jacobs; and Kara Puketapu-Dentice, Director of Economy and Development, Hutt City Council.
A wonderful collaborative, informative and well-attended event held at Butterfly Creek in Auckland, and simultaneously livestreamed to online delegates throughout New Zealand and Australia. Attendees and those who registered can access the event resources (slides available for download, recordings of each presentation, and photos taken at the event) here.
A great many thanks go out to the New Zealand Chapter Committee – Andrew Gatland, Chapter Chair, Jon Irving, Vice Chapter Chair, and fellow Committee members Luka Baresic, Rex Harland, Wayne Hatcher, Jack Crutzen and Peter Griffiths, all instrumental in putting the day together.
Check out a select number of photos taken at the event below:
