Infrastructure Asset Management: A Strategic Approach Toward Sustainability

Course Description

Infrastructure asset management (IAM) is a strategic approach to managing physical public infrastructure. Two major issues involved are the deterioration of infrastructure and growth in demand for service. This course covers the fundamental principles of asset management and revisits the core questions every organization should be able to answer about their assets.

The course also illustrates the state-of-art implementation approach of an asset management plan to attain sustainability. It provides an opportunity for public infrastructure management professionals to gain in-depth asset management knowledge while keeping up optimal performance over the asset’s life cycle.

What Do Participants Learn?

• Describe the basic principles of asset management
• Answer the six core questions about your assets
• Apply available tools and techniques to support your asset management program
• Develop an asset management implementation plan appropriate to your organization
• Provide better guidelines for policy making and apply best practices of asset management principles and concepts

Who Should Attend?

• Supervisors and Managers
• Operations/Maintenance Engineers
• Project Engineers
• Investment Officers and Coordinators
•  Technicians and Technologists
• Asset Management personnel

What Will the Learning Experience Include?

Phase: 1

Introduce

• Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
• Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
• Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.

• During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
• Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
• Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
• **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.

Phase: 2

Explore & Practice

Phase: 3

Apply

• Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
• To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
• Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
• Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)

• Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
• Participant's Evaluation
• Trainer's Evaluation

Phase: 4

EVALUATE