Just after Penny Burns and Jeff Roorda wrote about the revolutions or ‘waves’ of Asset Management in 2018, I realised how useful this was for surviving Asset Management conferences.
Sitting through yet another presentation about asset data, I thought: too many of us are still stuck in wave 1, asset inventory. Oh, for more papers on wave 2 and actually using information for making better strategic asset decisions! It’s not just my problem!
I had the great pleasure of attending a conference this month when not only did I not sit through anything on data, BIM, digital twins or AI, but we actually looked forward to waves 3 and 4.
The IAM UK conference, curated by Ursula Bryan – I really have to give her the credit – including an AM professional talking about how to use AM to solve Cape Town’s infrastructure challenge. That is truly wave 3 looking up and out. And another presentation about using AM to redefine coasts: a vision of wave 4.
At the conference I only addressed wave 2 with my US AM mob, about how most organisations still have to implement lifecycle based longer term planning.
But it was fantastically heartening to put this in the context of more ambitious Asset Management. Shout-outs to Johannes Paradza of Infrastructure Asset Management South Africa, and the always visionary Joe Inniss and Ashley Barrett of their Centre for Asset Studies!
See ‘Amphibious Infrastructure’, https://www.centreforassetstudies.co.uk/articles
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