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SPM Assets has a strong commitment to collaboration and leadership by contributing to training and professional development. Chris Jenkins and David Long from SPM Assets recently delivered lectures at two Auckland universities. The lectures identified the knowledge and skills required to work within a property management environment.

Time goes fast and technology advancement goes even faster, however SPM Assets has always taken pride in adopting the latest Open Source technologies for a better, secure and streamline user experience. We've introduced a few new technologies over the past few months including the renowned Docker whose mascot is a friendly looking blue whale.

Long-term thinking means that we need to think well beyond the scheduled maintenance and servicing tasks. We need to think beyond reactive maintenance 5 or 10 year sin teh future. We also need to think beyond the initial construction process for new buildings and start this thinking at the business case and design phases of capital works processes.

Kate Hensman from SPM Assets, recently attended the Housing Summit 2018 in Auckland, hosted by the New Zealand Green Building Council. The recent Housing Summit hosted by New Zealand Green Building Council was attended by many in the industry and the packed agenda included 33 speakers from Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

15 years ago I started to bring SPM’s assets data to the cloud (www), to visualise the findings and make them easy, accessible and shareable in the webrowser. Exciting years, in an environment you would call ‘startup’ nowadays. The two initiatives we are working on are related to Project Portfolio Planning and Work Order Information Analysis.

We all live, learn, work and play in our facilities and expect that many will be used well ‘into the future’. Where a Facilities Management Plan could be for one or a number of buildings within a portfolio – an Asset Management Plan considers the financial implications of long-term asset ownership across the entire portfolio at various levels.

Kobus van Wyk from GAPP Architects/Urban Designers, shares his experiences with the assessment, analysis and planning of 8.5 million square meters of hospitals, schools and general buildings serving the Western Cape Province in South Africa, “… only focus on the replacement of critical components identified to be at risk within the next five years…”

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'.