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At the recent SPM Assets Conference in Auckland, Martin Coates used his knowledge of asset management, his artistic talent and facilitation skills to translate the various presentations into this meaningful visual representation. Everyone was very impressed with the finished product, and it was a great twist on the day's activities.

We are making it easier to breathe life into your data through new analytics and dashboards that bring together your work-order data and your asset information to provide new insights – first you need to provide your daily work history through automated overnight data transfers. Yes, we have talked about this over the past few years as part of our ‘vision beyond software'.

SPM Assets was pleased to be a major sponsor and participant at this year's Tertiary Education Facilities Management Association (TEFMA) Strategic Asset Management Workshop. The common theme coming through, was that sound Asset Management is becoming increasingly critical in delivering a sustainable and modern tertiary education product.

Will larger corporate software eventually do everything for everyone? Or will specialist smart innovative connected applications win? Can a corporate ERP write an AMP, generate a real works-programme and lead you to do the right thing and make good decisions? Our technology choices today will dictate our future – is your organisation providing you the right tools?

In light of the topic, we called on the subject matter expertise of Mr Peter Way PSM from our Business Associate, IPWEA, to jointly deliver this Webinar. Peter Way represents IPWEA on the Standards Australia mirror committee that has been involved with the International Committee in writing the Standards, which are currently in the review process.

The 2017 Conference had particular relevance in Houston given the city’s resilience and recovery following the recent hurricane and citywide flooding. Education sessions covered topics from global technology trends in facility management, application of artificial intelligence, and information as-built to optimising space utilisation and much more.

Wellington City Council has recently published a case study that demonstrates how they use Building Information Modelling (BIM) to cost effectively manage its property portfolio, specifically focusing on a small social housing complex – Bracken Road Flats. It shows the value of BIM with benefits including the ability to forecast ongoing operating costs and plan maintenance.

Chris Jenkins recently posted a response to a discussion on IPWEA’S Ask Your Mates forum about the remaining useful lives of municipal assets. Chris is SPM Assets Technical Director and has had over 20 years of experience with these types of infrastructure assets. Rather than keeping this discussion within this closed forum, we are sharing it more widely with this post.

Thinking long term means that we need to think well beyond the scheduled maintenance and servicing tasks. We need to think beyond reactive maintenance. We need to think beyond 5 years or even 10 years, and realise that to ensure properties are managed in a sustainable way, we need to think 30 years out. This is where NAMS in NZ and IPWEA in AU have stepped in.