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Recently, one of our council clients decided to save a lot of time & frustration with their regular parks and playground audits. The council has been using an old paper based approach with council officers filling in audit sheets onsite, and then inputting data to a spreadsheet. The Property Manager’s goal was to eliminate double handling. Find out how he achieved his goals.

Since the soft launch of our new Programs application at the end of last year, we’ve been busy running demos and feedback sessions with customers – it’s all very exciting! The feedback so far has been positive and very interesting. Thank you to those of you who have helped us so far, and we’re looking forward to utilising this information in our first release.

The confessions of a property surveyor: Peter Mowchanuk is a Lead Surveyor at SPM Assets, and has over 7 years’ experience in surveying thousands of commercial and residential buildings. Here are his tips on how to make surveys quick and easy. The goal is to work as time efficiently as possible, yet produce a survey that is meaningful, accurate, and with data that can be relied on.

We recently held a Community Housing Workshop in Sydney that drew discussions on the challenges faced by the sector, and how SPM Assets software can help with these challenges. It also gave attendees a chance to ask specific questions on the optimal use of our software, with a particular focus on getting the most out of the analysis and reporting capabilities.

The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) held its annual World Workplace conference in Charlotte, North Carolina in early October. The conference focuses on knowledge exchange and collaboration through a programme of education sessions, facilitated panel discussions, and interactive workshops. David Long from SPM Assets attended the conference this year.

Our latest case study focuses on how hospitals and healthcare providers can better manage their large multi-million dollar portfolios of buildings and medical equipment. This client realised surveying 17 sites wasn’t feasible due to resource constraints, so a time-boxed approach to infield assessments was used, together with virtual data for rooms with a common layout.

Tips from our most experienced surveyor outlining his method of surveying so as not to miss anything: Start at the top of the room, and work downwards, when surveying a room, do not stand still, walk in a clockwise direction while collecting the components, and then in an anti-clockwise direction when doing the condition grading.

We continually hear stories about how hard it is to write an asset management plan. Even with the huge range of guidance material available, asset managers still struggle with: how to start writing a new asset management plan; refresh an existing plan; how to ensure an organisation gains real value from both the process and the resulting AMP.

All asset intensive organisations need a longer term strategical plan – this is one of the key outcomes from the asset management planning process, i.e. a plan which is part of your wider vision, a plan which can be shared easily, a plan which can be altered and impacts analysed, a plan which can be adopted and monitored over time.