The Asset Management Council Perth Chapter is hosting a World Café style event featuring:

• Insights into:
  • The Sustainability & Resilience in Asset Management Toolkit
  • Key considerations for embedding sustainability principles in asset management
• Practical Experience:
  • Implementing sustainability and resilience in asset-intensive organizations
• Café Style Workshop:
  • Holistic assessment of climate event impacts
  • Asset management decision-making through a sustainability lens
• Technical Presentation:
  • Water Corporation’s approach to climate change risk management: optimising effort to our adaptation strategies

Join us for a chance to collaborate and contribute to the future of these two working groups.

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Sustainability & Resilience in Asset Management : Key Considerations & Tool Kit:

In this session, we will provide details of the work completed by the Asset Management Council’s Special Interest Group on Sustainability & Resilience in Asset Management (SRiAM). Two key topics will be covered:

• Sustainability & Resilience in AM Toolkit
• Embedding Sustainability Principles in Asset Management – Key Considerations

The toolkit will be presented and is available for Asset Management Council members to utilise in applying sustainability and resilience in asset management.

We will also share the publication by SRiAM that covers key considerations for embedding sustainability principles in asset management.

Ankur Maheshwari, Technical Director, Asia Pacific, AMCL, and Member of the AMCouncil’s Sustainability & Resilience in Asset Management (SRiAM) special interest group

Ankur is Technical Director, Asia Pacific with AMCL Pty Ltd. He has many years experience in embedding sustainability and resilience principles in asset management. Ankur is an active member of Asset Management Councils Special Interest Group SRiAM and was involved in development of the outputs that will be presented at this session.

Water Corporation’s approach to climate change risk management: optimising effort to our adaptation strategies:

The Water Corporation has been managing the impacts of a drying climate since the 1970’s through water source diversification to supplement decreased dam inflows and declining groundwater allocations. However, climate change will also create risks more broadly to our water, wastewater and drainage network. A systematic risk-based approach is required to better understand the impact of climate change on our ability to deliver our services to our customers, community and the environment.

Dylan Pritchard, Specialist – Asset Management System & Risk, Water Corporation

Dylan Pritchard is an experienced environmental scientist and risk management specialist from the Water Corporation in Western Australia. Dylan has previously worked for an environmental consultancy, undertaking contaminated land investigations on behalf of a variety of clients, then transitioning to support the environmental investigation of treated wastewater reuse schemes across WA at public open spaces. Dylan is currently leading a project forecasting risks from changing climate patterns to infrastructure, leveraging his knowledge of environmental science and asset risk management to integrate climate change considerations into the existing asset management processes.

Georgina Hurst, Principal – Performance & Forecasting, Water Corporation

Georgina Hurst is an experienced Principal of Strategy and Performance with 20 plus years’ experience in infrastructure asset management within the water sector. Georgina has previously led the development of Water Corporation’s annual Strategic Asset Plan and the Waterwise Perth Action Plan, a cross agency plan to address the impacts of climate change, to transform Perth into a leading waterwise city by 2030. Georgina currently specialises in infrastructure sustainability and has recently led the adoption of Infrastructure Sustainability Ratings for major Water Corporation infrastructure  projects such as the Alkimos Seawater Desalination Plant.

Café Style Collaborative Workshop on: holistic assessment of climate event impacts, and Asset Management Decision Making through a Sustainability Lens:

The Sustainability and Resilience in Asset Management (SRiAM) Special Interest Group’s purpose is to clarify, promote and integrate sustainability and resilience as essential considerations in the context of Asset Management. SRiAM has two current active working groups. In this session we will share the progress of these working groups and work collaboratively with attendees to workshop challenges and solutions in :

• Undertaking holistic assessment of climate event impacts : how to consider direct and indirect consequences from climate events ? Current approaches.
• How to embed sustainability in Asset Management Decision Making ?

This session facilitated by Ankur Maheswhari and Michael Martinovich will provide an opportunity to collaborate with local industry experts and discuss challenges and approaches in these areas.