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Maximising The Value Of Government Infrastructure Through Successful Strategic Asset Management

About The Government Asset Management Congress 2012
A regional event, the Government Asset Management Congress 2012 promotes the professional discipline of asset management among the owners and managers of government infrastructure across the Middle East. The first event of its kind for the region, it provides an important platform to share international and regional best practice in asset management. The event covers all classes of government infrastructure and assets including water, power, waste water, roads, airports, ports, rail and social infrastructure.

Regional And International Government Asset Owners and Asset Management Experts
Mr. Abdulla Ali Al Madani
CEO, Corporate Technical Support Services Sector, RTA, UAE
Adi Al Deesi
Director Asset Management Department, Roads and Transport Authority, UAE
Dr. Najib Dandachi
Asset Management Director, TRANSCO, UAE
Batool Ali Abdula’al
Deputy Chief Executive Electricity and Water Production and Transmission, Bahrain Electricity and Water Authority, Bahrain
Dr Christian Roberts
Chair of Knowledge Committee, Institute of Asset Management and UK Principal Expert, ISO Project Committee for ISO 55000 Asset Management, UK
Donald Morrison
Head of Asset Management and Standards, Transport Scotland, UK
John Arnup
Director Global Engineering, DP World, UAE
Richard Fairbairn
Director of Technical Regulation, Authority for Technical Regulation, Oman
Mel Karam
Director of Asset Management, Southern Water, UK
Frank Wester
Head of Asset Strategy, TenneT, Netherlands
Leo Petch
General Manager Asset Strategy, Scottish Water, UK
Adam Herbschleb
Advisor Asset Management, Bahrain Electricity and Water Authority, Bahrain
Bert de Wit
Project Manager Asset Management Rijkswaterstaat, Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, Netherlands
Jonathan Coombs
Senior Manager Asset Management, Muscat Electricity Distribution Company, Oman

Why do you need to be there?
At the Government Asset Management Congress 2012, you’ll hear from leaders of Middle Eastern utilities and transport agencies on why the emerging discipline of asset management is vital to the sustainability of the region’s infrastructure.

You’ll interact with asset management heads from government asset owners from the UK and Europe. You’ll benefit from their insight into:
  • Implementing strategic asset management in the public sector
  • Adopting an asset management framework
  • Informing investment decision making with a whole life value perspective
  • Optimising asset performance and service levels through strategic approaches to maintenance
  • And much more...

You’ll hear from regional pioneers to find out how strategic asset management practices can improve asset performance and efficiency, generating significant cost savings in the process.

You will also have the opportunity to benchmark your organisation’s own asset management processes against the PAS 55 framework and leave with a tailored roadmap to set your organisation on its way to optimal asset performance.

Why strategic asset management, and why now?
  • GCC governments have invested billions of dollars in new state of the art infrastructure in the utilities, transport and social infrastructure sectors to support growing economies and populations. The focus is now shifting from capital project management to asset management with a view to ensuring the best value for money is delivered from infrastructure assets in the long term. There are significant opportunities to drive efficiencies and optimise the performance of government infrastructure assets.
  • As big ticket infrastructure typically has a lifetime of 25-75 years, Gulf states are now entering their first replacement cycle – a strategic, informed approach to remaining lifetime assessment and replacement planning is vital to deliver optimal service levels.
  • Infrastructure spending is continuing across the GCC and in the post economic downturn environment, there is increasing scrutiny on government spend– strategic asset management practices
    are essential to securing the physical and financial sustainability of these new assets.
The ONLY Strategic Asset Management Congress in the Middle East
Why You Need To Be There:
Understand why asset management is a fundamental discipline for the region’s governments right now
Achieve impressive capital and operating cost savings through strategic asset management
Identify the asset management frameworks that will ensure you deliver best practice asset management
Distinguish between “asset management” and “maintenance” for optimum asset performance
Learn how organisations in the Middle East have successfully adopted PAS 55 to deliver crucial efficiencies and improvements in asset performance
Apply lessons from overseas government utilities and transport agencies for superior asset performance and service levels
Meet like-minded asset management professionals managing the trade-off of cost, risk and performance in the region’s asset intensive government entities
Who should attend the Government Asset Management Congress 2012?
Sectors
• Power
• Water
• Wastewater
• Roads
• Rail
• Airports
• Ports
• Hospitals
• Schools and universities
• Public buildings
• Defence		 Job functions
• Asset management
• Maintenance
• Operations
• Technical
• Strategic and urban planning
• Investment planning and finance

FAST FACTS: What is Asset Management?
“Asset Management is the management of (primarily) physical assets (their selection, maintenance, inspection and renewal). It plays a key role in determining the operational performance and profitability of industries that operate assets as part of their core business.....This emerging professional discipline deals with the optimal management of physical asset systems and their life cycles. It represents a cross-disciplinary collaboration to achieve best net, sustained value-for-money in the selection, design/ acquisition, operations, maintenance and renewal/ disposal of physical infrastructure and equipment.” Source: Institute of Asset Management
FAST FACTS: What is PAS 55?
PAS 55 - Optimal Management Of Physical Assets is a Publicly Available Specification published by the British Standards Institution. This PAS provides guidance through a 28-point checklist of good practices in physical asset management. The standard is typically relevant to gas, electricity and water utilities, road, air and rail transport systems and public facilities and is equally applicable to public and private sector, regulated or non-regulated environments.