Strategic asset management
Infrastructure owners and operators face multiple complex challenges in realizing value from assets while carefully controlling costs.
We address people, processes, technology, and data to help you manage risk, drive value for money, build trust with your stakeholders, and improve your customers’ satisfaction.
What can we do for you?
Our asset management capability builds on our rich heritage in engineering and program delivery. We work with you to:
Build asset management capability
We focus on people and organizational effectiveness, aligning assets, staff capacity and skills, corporate strategy and structure, knowledge and capital with target outcomes, to achieve sustainable performance.
Optimize investment plans
Through long-term investment planning, we help you make informed and effectively prioritized decisions that maximize returns on investment and deliver lasting business benefit.
Improve asset resilience
In the face of challenges such as climate change, we work with you to build resilience into your asset systems to ensure you are prepared not only for day-to-day management but for the future, to deliver on your strategic objectives.
Maximize value from assets
We help you realize the full value of your assets, considering social and environmental outcomes in addition to the balance sheet.
Benefit from digitalization
We help you harness data to develop insights that enable asset performance to be improved in real time and that support long-term decision-making.
Achieve compliance
We help you meet your legal and regulatory requirements, and discharge corporate responsibilities such as sustainability, carbon reduction, biodiversity net gain, and social inclusion.
Maximizing value through strategic asset management
We’ll help you address your immediate needs but also develop a long-term outlook so that you can plan future activities and investment.
Our work is aligned with international best practice and standards, as set by the Institute of Asset Management. Depending where you are on your asset management journey, we can support you in making the first essential step of managing maintenance effectively, through managing your assets as an integrated system.
Our experience
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Lower Catskill Aqueduct survey, New York, USAThe Catskill Aqueduct is more than 100 years old and needs repair. Yet it remains a vital piece of infrastructure, supplying New York City with 40% of its water. On a one-mile section of the aqueduct that was out of service, we applied and validated a fully digital approach to assessing asset condition, pinpointing defects and selecting the correct techniques for repair and reconditioning. It brought together geographic information systems (GIS), laser surveying, photogrammetry, BIM, and visualization. Inspection and defect mapping on the mile of pipeline would ordinarily have taken days, but our digital approach reduced this to just a few hours. The digital twin we created enabled the contractor to plan and schedule works for maximum efficiency and safety.
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Network Rail earthworks policy development, condition assessment, and prioritization, UKWith railway embankments and cuttings at growing risk from the impacts of extreme weather, we developed guidance and tools that enable owner Network Rail to invest more precisely to reduce both the likelihood and effects of earthworks failures, keeping trains and passengers safe. Since its implementation, the number of potentially high-consequence failures has declined, and there has been a fourfold decrease in derailments attributable to earthworks.
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Water resource options development to 2100, Thames Water, UKFacing population growth, increasing consumption and increasing water scarcity, we assessed the best ways to meet future water demand. More than 150 specific options were identified and assessed. Screening narrowed these to about 40. The shortlist enables Thames Water to demonstrate to the regulator and customers that it has identified the best value solutions to future supply. The work has provided the company with a strategy and plan for coping with changing demand and resource availability.
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Water treatment plants, AustraliaWe designed a real-time data analytics system for several activated sludge treatment works, to gauge the best time to clean aeration tanks and unclog diffusers. Previously these operations were undertaken at set intervals, but our data analytics work enabled our client to intervene whenever loss of performance becomes an issue. Aeration had accounted for up 60% of our client’s overall electricity bill. Our smart infrastructure solution delivered better aeration efficiency and led to an annual A$500,000 energy saving.
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West Virginia Transportation Asset Management Plan, USAWest Virginia needed to enhance its management of roads and bridges. We worked with the Department of Transportation’s road and bridge teams to develop an easy-to-use asset management framework that enabled urgent works to be prioritized and carried out within the department’s budget. It also enabled the production of a successful application for additional funding from the state.
Geospatial
Receive insights in real time from onsite sensors using web-based GIS mapping software. Geospatial is a mapping and analysis solution that enables diverse project teams to view project data and collaborate. Its functions range from geospatial planning and route alignment for linear infrastructure such as roads, railways, power lines and pipelines, to the management of stakeholder relationships.
Carbon Portal
Identify, calculate, and reduce embodied and operational carbon emissions. This infrastructure carbon calculator is aligned to PAS 2080, the international specification for managing carbon across the built environment (coauthored by Mott MacDonald). It allows anyone across your business and supply chain to identify and calculate carbon emissions, not just carbon experts.
