Asset & Facilities Management

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Aging assets, increased service expectations and asset utilisation, combined with a challenging economic outlook are some of the challenges facing managers of critical infrastructure.

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For more than 30 years, GHD’s asset management professionals have played a leading role in developing improved working practices for utility, transport and infrastructure stakeholders. We work closely with you to deliver the finest practice management solutions.

Our service offering revolves around 5 key areas of infrastructure management:

People
Process
Technology
Information
Assurance

Services

Strategic, risk and opportunity advisory
Training and competency development – we are an endorsed trainer through the Institute of Asset Mangement (IAM)
Benchmarking, assessment and audit to PAS-55:2008 – we are an endorsed assessor through the IAM
Business transformation - our Total Business Change Process delivers change projects in operational environments that are
unfamiliar with project management
Efficiency and performance improvement consulting
Project management

For further information, contact:

Brenton Marshall
Tel: +61 3 8687 8325
E: Brenton Marshall

Asset Management Improvement Program

GHD is assisting Merseyrail, the UK urban train operator for Liverpool and surrounding areas, with a major business change program to update the management systems for its fleet.

The Asset Management Improvement Program (AMI P) is being delivered in partnership with Merseyrail. It follows an asset management maturity assessment undertaken in 2008 using GHD’s proprietary Total Enterprise Asset Management Quality Framework (TEAM QF) assessment model. The assessment process is aligned to BSI PAS 55 (a publicly available asset management specification) and provided Merseyrail with a roadmap for achieving its strategic asset management objectives for fleet reliability, availability and efficiency set out in its asset management strategy published in 2007.

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City of Livermore – Asset Hierarchy & Data Framework

The City of Livermore, Public Works Department, Water Resources Division (WRD) is strengthening its asset management (AM) program to foster more efficient financial and physical resource investments and prolong the life of the water and wastewater infrastructure system. As the first step toward asset management improvement, WRD contracted with GHD to assist in a strategic review of WRD’s current asset management practices. This process identified improvement opportunities and assisted in developing projects to support WRD’s efforts to move its asset management practices closer to the established best appropriate practices.

Among a list of improvement projects, the Asset Hierarchy and Data Framework project was identified as high priority. Establishing a structured and consistent data management approach will provide the WRD with an essential foundation to making asset management decisions.

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Comprehensive Asset Management Project for Alor Setar Telecommunication Tower

Telekom Malaysia engaged GHD on a comprehensive asset management project at Alor Setar Telecommunication Tower in Kedah. Measuring 165.5m in height, the Alor Setar Tower comprises a tower structure, podium, amphitheatre and two restaurants.

The upper level tower houses telecommunications and broadcasting equipment.

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Developing a Sustainability Integration Strategy

GHD was engaged to develop a strategy for the New Zealand Ministry of the Environment (MfE) to facilitate the integration of sustainability into local government procurement.

Local government in New Zealand has a significant impact on the economy, contributing 3.5 percent of GDP and employing around 40,000 people.

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Highline Water District Asset Management Plan

Highline Water District (HWD) is a municipal water system located just south of Seattle, Washington with 280 miles of water line. Many of the water system assets are aging significantly, as they were constructed predominantly in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. In order to better manage its infrastructure assets the HWD desired to establish an Asset Management program.

GHD was contracted to prepare the Asset Management Plan (AMP) in conjunction with BHC’s Water Comprehensive Master Plan Update. The objective was to summarize the ability of the HWD to deliver water services to its customers in the AMP. This was achieved through the development of the AMP.

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IWA-WSAA International Asset Management Benchmarking

GHD was commissioned by the International Water Association and Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) to undertake an Asset Management Process Benchmarking study. This study included 42 participants from water and wastewater utilities from around the world, including; Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates and the United States of America.

The study utilized WSAA’s Aquamark Framework to examine key asset management processes that are required to maintain the supply of reliable water and wastewater services. The study provided opportunities to identify leading asset management practices and to share information for the benefit of all participants.

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Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County Pilot Asset Management Plan

The Sanitation Districts consist of 23 independent special districts and provides wastewater and solid waste services for approximately 5.7 million customers in Los Angeles County. The Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (Sanitation Districts) engaged GHD to assist in developing a pilot asset management plan (AMP) for their White Point Pumping Plant to demonstrate the concepts of asset management.

The pilot AMP was developed around the GHD formulated 10-step asset management process which is endorsed by the USEPA. Development of the AMP enables the Sanitation Districts to advance its asset management program by providing the framework for understanding the assets owned, the service expected of the assets, and the investment required. The Sanitation Districts intend to apply the knowledge gained from the pilot AMP to develop AMPs which incorporate the entire asset portfolio.

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Seattle Parks and Recreation

Seattle Parks and Recreation (Seattle Parks) is currently engaged in strengthening its Asset Management Program to improve the stewardship of park assets. Seattle Parks desires an Asset Management Program that will allow them to proactively manage their assets. The Asset Management Program will support Seattle Parks’ strategic mission.

Mission
“Seattle Parks and Recreation will work with all citizens to be good stewards of our environment, and to provide safe and welcoming opportunities to play, learn, contemplate, and build community.”

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Security Master Planning, Surprise AZ

GHD recently completed the development of a Security Master Plan for all water and wastewater facilities for the City of Surprise. The City of Surprise systems include 20 water supply wells, 5 water treatment, pumping and storage facilities, 2 wastewater reclamation plants, and wastewater collection and water distribution systems serving a population of 125,000 in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

The Security Master Plan included:

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Sino Iron Ore Project

The Sino Iron Project is Australia's first major magnetite project and the second largest project currently under construction in the Pilbara.

Due to its remote location 1200 kilometres north of Perth in Western Australia, the client CITIC Pacific Mining Management Pty Ltd required the development of dedicated infrastructure to support the USD3.5billion greenfields sino iron project.

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UK Rail Footprint Assessment

Greenhouse gas (GHG) management is an essential part of any organisation’s sustainability and corporate responsibility agenda. GHD partnered with CenSA on railways greenhouse gas emissions measurement in the United Kingdom.

In December 2008, the United Kingdom (UK) made a upgraded its commitment to reduce its national carbon dioxide emissions, by at least 34 per cent by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050, in comparison to 1990 levels. In anticipation of tough regulatory and other policy drivers, the rail sector sought to better understand its contribution to the national GHG footprint and the ways in which this can be reduced.

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Washington Suburban Asset Management (Md, USA)

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) appointed GHD to lead the provision of asset management services in support of master planning and enterprise resource planning initiatives.

WSSC is the eighth largest water and wastewater utility in the USA, owning USD$12 billion of infrastructure assets. While instituting a range of short-term measures to combat the increasing incidence of water main breaks and leaks, WSSC is also taking a long-range strategic approach to address the growing challenge of ageing infrastructure.

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Airports	Aviation	Bridges	Climate Change
Dams	Defence Sector	Development Assistance	Energy & Resources
Hydrocarbons Processing	Hydrocarbons Transportaion	Industrial Water & Waste	Intelligent Transport Solutions
Internat.Development Assistance	Irrigation	Landscape Arcitecture	Materials Technology
Marine & Coastal	Mining & Metals	Mining Engineering	Oil & Gas
Pavement Engineering	Plant Engineering	Power Delivery	Power Generation
Property & Buildings	Rail	Railways	Risk Management
Road Systems	Roads & Highways	Spatial Sciences	Structures
Sustainability	Training	Transportation & Logistics	Wastewater Systems
Wastewater Treatment	Water Sector	Water Efficiency	Water Sciences
Water Quality & Treatment	Waterways & Coastal

Wayne Francisco

Wayne Francisco manages GHD’s Charlotte office and divides his time between running the business and providing strategic management consulting services to clients in eastern and central United States. Wayne has worked in both the private and public sectors in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States over a 20-year career that also includes a period of managing infrastructure development projects in Bhutan. Wayne’s civil engineering degree is complimented by a Masters in Infrastructure Management (Public Policy).

Position: Office Manager, Charlotte
Tel: +1 704 342 4910

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Brenton Marshall

Brenton is GHD’s Service Line Leader for Asset Management. He has extensive asset management knowledge and has worked on many projects including asset management planning, improvement strategies and financial modeling. Brenton’s wide-ranging experience includes involvement in water, wastewater, irrigation, hydro-electricity, gas, electricity, parks and gardens, roads, rail and buildings projects in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada.

Position: Service Line Leader, Asset & Facilities Management
Tel: +61 3 8687 8000

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