by Heidi | Aug 22, 2023
In collaboration with Perth Chapter and Water Corporation, this free event is an opportunity for Young Asset Management Professionals to learn about Asset Management and hear from other young professionals about their career journey.
About the speakers:
Chenoa Lange, Senior Technical Advisor – Wastewater Processes, Treatment & Resource Recovery, Water Corporation
Starting off her career as an Environmental Engineering graduate with the Water Corporation, Chenoa has worked across a wide range of water utility assets for both the metro and country regions. Including drainage, desalination, pump stations, groundwater bores and treatment facilities.
With an interest in operational engineering, she joined the metro operations branch, Treatment & Resource Recovery. Initially as part of the Water Engineering team she managed operational and maintenance requirements of the metro dam safety program, working closely with the field crew and leading minor works.
To further pursue her interests in treatment processes Chenoa then transitioned into the Wastewater engineering team, previously based at the state’s third largest water resource recovery facility, Subiaco. Overseeing regulatory requirements, incident responses and process optimisation works, she thrived in the dynamic and fast paced environment.
Now the Senior TA for the Kwinana/ Mandurah sites she oversees eight sites including oxidation ditch, pond, and membrane treatment facilities.
Thriving for sustainable outcomes in recycling and processing performance improvements she aims for optimal outcomes in identifying and addressing operational limitations. Feeding in lessons learnt and field technical expertise to future projects.
Nyssa MacManus, Senior Advisor Maintenance Solutions, Rio Tinto
Nyssa is an experienced asset management professional with a wide knowledge base in engineering, execution, frontline leadership, and maintenance solution roles over her time in the industry. She graduated with a double degree in Mechanical and Chemical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University.
Her career stretched from the oil fields of Louisiana to the bauxite hills of Far North Queensland and the red dirt of Pilbara, Western Australia. While working she has completed her master’s in engineering and technology Management
Nyssa has had exposure to the ‘whole of life’ asset philosophy through her various roles in the industry, which has allowed her to make improvements and decisions that are not only sustainable but efficient to ensure the most benefit has been obtained from the assets and is economical.
Dylan Pritchard, Specialist – Asset Management System & Risk, Water Corporation
Dylan Pritchard is an experienced environmental scientist and risk management specialist with a strong background in environmental consultancy and risk management in the water industry and contaminated sites.
He worked for an environmental consultancy prior to joining Water Corporation, undertaking contaminated land investigations on behalf of clients in a variety of industries such as mining, government departments and private industry. Dylan transitioned to the Water Corporation, primarily supporting the environmental investigation of treated wastewater reuse schemes across Western Australia at public open spaces, assessing environmental risk of these schemes to ensure water conservation and support the sustainable use of treated wastewater.
Building on experience in environmental science and water management, Dylan currently holds a position in the Asset Strategy business unit at the Water Corporation, leading a project for the automation of risk assessments for supporting the prioritisation of expenditure. Recently, Dylan is involved with forecasting risks from changing climate patterns to infrastructure, leveraging his knowledge of environmental science and risk assessment to integrate climate change considerations into the existing asset management processes.
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by Heidi | Aug 21, 2023
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.
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.
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by Heidi | Aug 17, 2023
Climate change is real and with the recent IPCC report suggests that the earth is warming. To mitigate the effect, large number of organisations have committed to climate action to reduce their impact on the environment. One of the initiatives, ESG is at the forefront.
As a Reliability Engineer I thought, what can I do to make a difference? In this webinar we will explore the tools we have at our disposal and what can we do to make a change for the better.
About the speaker:
Akshay Athalye, Lead Asset Lifecycle Engineer, Babcock Australia & New Zealand
Akshay is a qualified Reliability and Asset Management Engineer. Although an accidental reliability engineer, he is an advocate for great Reliability practices. He is also the host of the podcast “Reliability – It Matters”. He has worked across a diverse range of industries from bottling cold beverages to digging copper, running trains and mammoth naval vessels.
by Heidi | Aug 15, 2023
Data is increasingly being recognized as a valuable commodity that supports an increasing variety of business functions. However, while it has become well recognized that good management of our ‘hard’ infrastructure benefits from the application of asset management principles, the concept of data (in all its many varieties) as an infrastructure asset to be managed is still developing.
In this webinar, we explore the nature of data as an infrastructure asset, and how traditional asset management concepts such as value, level-of-service and expected life can be adapted to this novel asset class. Additionally, we discuss the distinction between management of data storage (which can be considered tangible) from management of the underlying, intangible, data itself.
About the speakers:
Robert Radovanovic is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. His specialization includes leveraging spatial data from sources such as laser scanners, unmanned aerial vehicles and embedded sensors to develop infrastructure asset inventories, monitor performance and assess risk resiliency. Robert is heavily involved in developing curriculum for students in the fundamentals of asset management, and how it ties into long-term sustainable outcomes for communities.
Tanya Hegmann is a recent graduate of the Masters of Engineering program at the University of Calgary and a registered Engineer-In-Training with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. Her specialization is in the field of Geographic Information Systems, and she was an inaugural participant in the Asset Management for Sustainable Infrastructure course series developed at the University of Calgary. Her research work has focused in the application of asset management principles to datasets holdings, with a goal of improving the consistent valuation of an intangible asset class.
