AMCouncil February Meeting Point e-news is out now, packed with all the latest and greatest AMCouncil happenings and news from the past month, including links to some great technical articles, news, interviews and announcements. Check your inboxes now!
The University of New South Wales recently released a guide detailing a pathway for the Australian built environment to achieve net zero by 2040 entitled” Race to Net Zero Carbon: A Climate emergency Guide for New and Existing Buildings in Australia”. The guide, Race to Net Zero Carbon: A Climate Emergency Guide for New and Existing Buildings in Australia, explains how materials and best practices can help architects, engineers, planners and others to transform the industry and built environment toward net zero. The Guide can be accessed here.
Last week saw the Perth Chapter host a technical event where selected panellists from Rio Tinto, KPMG and AMCL evaluated some of the intricacies associated with SAMPs in Dynamic Environments.. The discussion invoked further thought and deep evaluation of how Asset Management organisations can apply different approaches to suit business models, meet ISO standards, and have SAMPs that are Useful, Useable & Used in such a rapidly changing world!
Last week saw the Melbourne Chapter host it’s first event of the year where delegates gathered to learn about RAMS (reliability, availability, Maintainability and Safety). In his presentation, Dr Allen Tam presented how RAMS engineering skills contribute to the life-cycle performance of a product/asset/services and how various tools can be applied.
The Sydney Chapter of the Asset Management Council held it’s online AGM yesterday evening. We are delighted to announce the 2023 AMCouncil Sydney Chapter committee line up is:
According to a World Bank report released on 6th December 2022 entitled “ Squaring the Circle: Policies for a transition to a circular economy in Europe” today’s global economy consumes more than 100 billion tons of raw materials each year, while approximately 90 billion tons of materials are disposed of as waste. The number of new merchandise mobilized between 2000 and 2015 is already equivalent to more than half of the number of sales promotions between 1900 and 2000 with Global demand for new commodities expected to at least double again by 2050.