Asset Management

This fully facilitated, live online course  is made up of two courses from our Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Asset Management Apprenticeship Pathway)

• Introduction to Asset Management
• Asset Management Planning

It's delivered via Microsoft Teams every Wednesday evening from 5.30pm-7.45pm and has assessments based in your workplace. 

Alongside industry experts, we’ve developed these courses to create a pathway into infrastructure management for people from diverse backgrounds. Our aim is to ensure that asset management learning is future-proofed so that multi-disciplinary teams can work effectively together, addressing skills gaps and solving ever more complex societal problems. 

Taught by subject matter experts currently engaged in the industry, these courses will give you the skills and knowledge to become a competent member of an asset management team. You’ll know how registers and plans are developed and will be capable of contributing significantly to the development of these, you’ll appreciate your relationship with the overall system of asset management, and will understand the analytical, engagement and data sourcing activities needed of you. 

For those who already have asset management experience, these courses will enable you to hone and deepen your abilities. 

Course content is work-based and assessments are focused on producing two significant pieces of work throughout the year (an asset register and an asset management plan). These pieces of work will benefit you and your employer. 

The course content of Introduction to Asset Management and Asset Management Planning includes several areas of crossover which means it makes sense for them both to be offered at the same time.

This allows us to make the most of industry expertise and for you to complete two significant pieces of work over a nine-month period; the development of an asset register and supporting information for the Introductory course, and the development of a comprehensive asset management plan for the Asset Management course.

These pieces of work will benefit you and your employer. 

This course is delivered by subject matter experts who are working in the industry – meaning you get the most up-to-date knowledge and practices. 

Learner feedback on this delivery style in the past has been overwhelmingly positive and many felt like it enhanced the quality of their final assessments/projects. 

Once you are enrolled, you will be given pre-learning materials to kickstart you and support your success in this course.

You will also receive a student email account and be enrolled in our online learning platform called Moodle (you’ll get instructions about how to use Moodle). 

Online sessions for both courses will be run on Wednesdays from 5.30pm-7.45pm through Microsoft Teams. We’ll send you a calendar invite through your student email to these Teams sessions. 

To be able to fully utilise the Teams environment, please use your student email link as this will give you all the live chat and functionality you need. 

All Teams sessions will be set to automatically record from 5.15pm-7.45pm and the recording will be made available via the Teams group for anyone who missed the session, however sessions held in breakout rooms are not able to be recorded and it is advised that your attendance is consistent for each session. 

Please ensure that you have the audio and visual capability to access these sessions properly as there’ll be activities where you’ll need to feed into conversations with others. 

The learning leader will also set up individual Teams meeting with each participant during the first few weeks of the course to ensure they have a good understanding of your learning needs, and any work or personal challenges you may be facing that could impact on your learning.

Your online sessions on a Wednesday will follow this format:

• The facilitator will open and manage the logistics of each session.
• Industry experts will deliver learning about their specific area of expertise.
• 'Breakout room' group exercises are run where you discuss the session and complete relevant activities in smaller teams and feedback their findings to the greater group.
• Discussions are held with the whole group to look at individuals own context and environments.

For both courses, there are also self-directed learning tasks that must be completed.

• ISO standards and legislation
• Definition of asset management; benefits of asset management; the asset management system
• Defining levels of service for infrastructure assets, including, but not limited to customer value, customer communication, decision-making, delivering value; performance measures and targets; identification of level of service gaps.
  • Acceptable levels of service
• Essential asset attributes; data storage; data structures; performance and condition data; condition rating systems; performance rating systems
  • Configuration, capacity, asset parameters and functionality
  • Condition assessments
• Demand management practices for infrastructure assets, including, but not limited to: consideration of current use, timeframe, future use, intervention strategies, valuation of options, acceptability, stakeholder response, corporate strategies, future capital works programme, demographics.
  • Trends and mega trends.
• Optimised decision-making process for infrastructure asset system management.
  • Creation and evaluation of criteria to assist decision making.
  • Reporting, documenting, recording of determination.
  • Asset lifespan: Use, Maintenance, Targets, limits
    • Modelling of current and forecasting future states
    • Options for addressing problems and opportunities including, but not limited to; do nothing, maintain, rehabilitate, replace, upgrade, non-asset solution or solutions.
    • Cost/benefit analysis...