This annual one-day New Zealand based technical symposium brings representatives from various industries together to share asset management experiences and challenges, and provides a forum for networking & information sharing.

This year’s theme is getting the balance right – incorporating resilience in asset management.

This will be a hybrid event, with options for those who can attend in person and those who would prefer to access the symposium virtually / online. The ‘in person’ symposium will be held at the Auckland University of Technology Conference Centre on Thursday 14 September 2023.

The cost in Australian dollars to attend either in person or online is: AMCouncil members $150, non-members $310, students $50.

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On the agenda:

• Balancing the needs of today and tomorrow – Geoff Cooper (General Manager – Strategy, Te Waihanga New Zealand Infrastructure Commission)
• Unison’s experience through Cyclone Gabrielle – Mitch Graham (Fault Avoidance & Constraints Engineer, Unison)
• Auckland University of Technology or Assets Under Trauma? – David Curry, AUT
• GFMAM landscape and TC251 update – Martin Kerr and Adele Jones
• Understanding asset condition at an airport – Stewart Symon (Asset Manager, Auckland Airport) and Raymond Sloot (Manager Engineering Services, Auckland Airport)
• Critical Infrastructure Natural Hazards Resilience Research Overview – Professor Liam Wotherspoon (Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland)

Full topic and speaker details below.

Balancing the needs of today and tomorrow

Geoff Cooper, General Manager – Strategy, Te Waihanga (NZ Infrastructure Commission)

In a world where change is occurring at an ever-accelerating rate, against a backdrop of global uncertainty and increasing costs for infrastructure – how do we meet our needs today, address the challenges of our time and protect the future?

While a lot of attention is given to new projects, 99% of the infrastructure we need for the future is already with us today. As such, the New Zealand Infrastructure Strategy Rautaki Hanganga highlights that a large part of New Zealand’s infrastructure deficit is the cost of maintaining and renewing existing infrastructure.

To manage the infrastructure challenges we face, it is critical to get better use from this existing infrastructure, and improve how we maintain and manage it. Geoff will place asset management within the greater national infrastructure challenge and discuss some of the knotty choices ahead, as we grapple with the significant challenge of stewardship for the assets already around us.

Geoff Cooper has a background in global policy having worked for the United Nations, the United States Treasury and the Federal Reserve.

Before becoming GM Strategy at Te Waihanga (the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission), Geoff worked as a Chief Economist at Auckland Council and at PwC.

Geoff holds a Master of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland and a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University.

Unison’s experience through Cyclone Gabrielle

Mitch Graham, Fault Avoidance & Constraints Engineer, Unison

In February 2023 cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand. This was the costliest tropical cyclone on record in the southern hemisphere, with total damages estimated to be at least $13.5 billion. The scale of damage and disruption to Unisons electricity distribution network was the most severe in living memory. This presentation will tell the story of Unisons response and ongoing recovery, and how good asset management practices supported Unisons readiness and reduced the potential effects of such an event.

Mitch is a chartered electrical engineer and an asset management practitioner. Starting his career in the electricity distribution sector at Unison Networks, Mitch cut his teeth in an operational engineering role within the Network Operation Centre. Since then, Mitch has worked in Asset Management with a focus on overhead lines. His specialty areas include overhead conductor and timber pole condition assessment, as well as asset risk modelling for renewal planning. Mitch has been an active member of seven electricity industry asset management working groups and steering committees, and the chair of the Overhead Line Designers Forum. In 2023, Mitch was named as the Electricity Engineers’ Association Young Engineer of the Year.

AUT – Auckland University of Technology or Assets Under Trauma?

David Curry, Group Director Estates Operations, Auckland University of Technology

This presentation maps the development of Asset Management practice at AUT over the past 20 years and the (mostly) positive influence of Government Policy in the sector.  It covers the practical application of asset management in the operation of a large portfolio especially in relation to risk management and sustainability.  It seeks to offer a view on what an operational portfolio owners might want from their AM teams; ie what product are you offering?  The presentation will also cover how AM info is used in supporting the development of AUT’s Property Strategy.

David has been involved in the planning, development, operation and maintenance of large public-sector property portfolios for over 35 years.  He holds a Pg Cert in Facilities Management from the University College of Estate Management and a Pg Dip in Disaster Risk Management from Auckland University of Technology.

Update of Global Forum on Maintenance & Aset Management (GFMAM) Asset Management Landscape Revision

Martin Kerr, AMCouncil Members’ Representative on TC251, and Adele Jones, Principal – Strategic Advisory (Asset Management), WSP New Zealand

This presentation will provide an overview of work being completed on GFMAM’s Project Number 24: The Asset Management Landscape 3rd Edition. AM Council has the Project 24 Leadership role, and has a group of members who are feeding into the revision of the Asset Management Landscape 3^rd Edition.

The purpose of the GFMAM Landscape is to describe our common understanding of Asset Management, particularly highlighting its breadth; and to provide a globally agreed framework against which knowledge bases and practices can be aligned, compared, and contrasted. The Landscape complements the ISO 55000 suite of standards and related material, which is primarily intended to address the use of a Management System.

This presentation will provide an overview of the Asset Management Landscape document, key areas of proposed change, progress made to date and next steps through to publication of the 3^rd edition.

Martin Kerr is a Certified Fellow in Asset Management (CFAM) and a Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA). Martin is the founder of Structured Change Pty Ltd, co-author of Living Asset Management Maturity, an active AMBok team member and an Asset Management Maturity Assessor for the Council. Martin is also the Technical Manager of the WPiAM CAMA team and a project member at the GFMAM.

Adele is a Principal in WSP’s Strategic Advisory team with 20+ years of experience, leading and delivering a diverse range of strategic advisory, asset management, network management and procurement projects, both nationally and internationally. Adele is part of the Asset Management Council’s New Zealand Chapter Committee and is a member of AM Council’s GFMAM Asset Management Landscape Revision Working Group.

Adele has worked across a wide variety of horizontal and vertical infrastructure portfolios, including transport, 3-waters, property and buildings, recreation and aviation. Adele’s technical skills span wide range of asset management practices at strategic, tactical and operational levels, with a strong focus on aligning with the International Standard for asset management, ISO 55001. She has experience in asset management policy, asset management system development, strategic asset management planning, investment decision making approaches, business case development, asset management planning, risk management and asset data and information management practices.

Understanding asset condition at an airport

Stewart Symon, Asset Manager, and Raymood Sloot, Manager Engineering Services, Auckland Airport

Auckland Airport is committed to managing its critical infrastructure to a high and consistent standard, for the long term, and to support this we require a strong understanding of the condition of our assets.  As such, we have put emphasis on:

• Building awareness of the need
• Committing to capturing the data via our frontline teams
• Making the data easy to understand

This output from this activity is now providing value for us. This presentation will share our journey so far, including challenges and approach.

Stewart has an engineering background, with a degree and NZCE in Mechanical Engineering. He has worked at Auckland Airport for the last 13 years, and previously worked for over 20 years in manufacturing companies such as James Hardie, Ford, Alcoa and BHP NZ Steel.

For the last 5 years he has been leading activity to build up an AM framework and improve AM practice at Auckland Airport. Some relevant areas of prior experience include leading Operational Improvement projects, leading the GIS and Asset Data team, and leading a Project Delivery team.

Raymond also has an Engineering background, with a diploma in Asset Management.

He has worked at Auckland Airport for the last 4 years and has previously been the Engineering Manager at Wiri Oil Services, the Reliability Engineering Manager at Lion, and the Engineering Services Manager at TipTop-Fonterra.

He is passionate about change for the better and with helping organizations to transform from good to great. A huge advocate for Lean processes and how they are the foundations for successfully implementing Asset Management strategies.

Critical Infrastructure Natural Hazards Resilience Research: National Overview

Professor Liam Wotherspoon, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland

Recent natural hazards events in Aotearoa New Zealand have highlighted the vulnerability of the critical infrastructure networks and the impacts of loss of service on communities and the economy. These events, along with a history of strong collaboration between research and industry, has motivated a wide range of research focussing on the resilience of critical infrastructure networks when exposed to natural hazard events. This presentation will provide a summary of recently completed and ongoing research across New Zealand, along with some of the future directions of this research. This summary will be presented on behalf of a large group of researchers from across the country. It will look across network components, individual networks, interactions or dependencies across networks and the socio-economic implications of losses of service.

Liam is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland. He leads a number of national research programmes that focus on the resilience of critical infrastructure across a range of natural hazards. This includes the co-leadership of the Built Environment theme of the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge and Deputy-Director of Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE, a national centre of research excellence focussing on earthquake resilience.

 

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