Costs have grown over 30% and income is falling. Cutting a chunk of renewal demand from roads, drainage or pathway assets isn’t an option. Buildings are the low hanging fruit sitting perennially in the too hard basket.
How useful is the 100 year old community hall for today's townships and suburbs? And where have we said we'd provide public toilets, and why?
Do we have an activation and promotion problem or has demand fallen? What does asset failure look like for these buildings, and are they really at end of life? If we just want a close look at our critical assets, how do we define criticality anyway?
Follow our adventure as a beginner team with a crash course in IPWEA's asset management planning, striving for lasting system improvements and solid answers to these questions and more.
While we're still working on what the finish line looks like , I'll be sharing our approach to bare-minimum service planning, functionality and utilisation assessment.
I’ll share how we’re assessing suitability of data for different uses by questioning the data validity and sensitivity of the final decisions to that data accuracy.
Hear about the consequences and risks of taking the easy path, and our Quality Management approach to make sure we’re not facing the exact same problems again next time!