Who we are
Talking Infrastructure was created in 2016 by Dr Penny Burns and colleagues Jeff Roorda, David Hope, Gregory Punshon and Ruth Wallsgrove to address a problem that Penny and Jeff had identified a few years earlier — the need to move beyond the management of current portfolios so that decisions made today for new infrastructure will be ‘fit for the future’. Lou Cripps and Todd Shepherd have since joined as Board Directors. Board Profiles can be found HERE.
ASSET MANAGEMENT TURNED 40 IN 2024
Asset Management is in middle age – over 40 years since Penny created it while working for the South Australian government. We had a fine time celebrating its 40th birthday last year. If you haven’t already, you can read how and why Penny came up with Asset Management in her Story of AM
What we do
We think, research, write and speak about Infrastructure Decision Making, the next stage of Asset Management, and we encourage others to do so too.
Our latest thoughts can be found in our regular blogs and longer articles, as well as our expanding list of publications (see Resources for details).
This includes
- practical methods for addressing resilience and avoiding environmental damage from our infrastructure; and improved accounting for disaster recovery.
- forseeing the future – preparing for the impact of demographic, social and environmental change. This is an extension of our Waves framework.
- chronicling our history and development, before it disappears from our memories
Some of us also present regularly at Asset Management conference and webinars.
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