May 2007

May 2007

Local Government Managers Australia (LGMA):

At the LGMA Conference recently held in Tasmania, David Preiss of Local Government Professionals became the proud owner of a NAMS Property Manual.

Australasian Housing Institute:

AHI and NAMS are discussing the possibilty of undertaking Industry training in the main centres of Australia later this year.  There is an AHI Asset Management Conference planned for later this year which will be of interest to Government and Community based organisations.

Northern Region DHBs Asset Management Workshops:

Representatives from the four Northern Region District Health Boards (DHBs) will be attending the first of two asset management training workshops on the 1st of June.  The purpose of the workshops are to build the understanding of best practice asset management within the DHBs and to also provide an opportunity for regional networking and collaboration.

NZ Treasury:

New Zealand Treasury has confirmed that their Asset Management Framework will be based on the key principles written into the series of NAMS Manuals. A number of Government Agencies are already implementing this framework.

Local Government Magazine:

Click here to view the complete article that will be published in the June edition.

Effective property asset planning is all about ensuring that assets can deliver against agreed levels of service. The NAMS Property framework ensures that asset management planners can achieve this objective.

Local Authority Property Association:

The LAPA annual conference will be held in Rotorua in early September, for further details click here

NAMS Property training sessions: 

The NAMS Property training held during March and April were extremely well received by the attendees, as suggested by the comments that were passed to NAMS Group:

• Totally applicable to what needs to be done at a council level

• Very informative and useful. Gives a good understanding of asset management to bring back and put into place at the council

• Essential to any manager of facilities/property/buildings

• Very logical presentation, clearly articulated

• Good introduction to the manual and applied workshops very useful

• Would be a great introduction for new staff

For a more detailed view of the seminar feedback, click here

Progress of NAMS Property

	Current as at 01 May 2007 Local Government organisations continue to dominate membership.  It is expected that further central government agencies will become members over the next few months
	NZ dominates the membership at this stage due to the presence of the NAMS Group in NZ and their ongoing activities and promotion.

Did you know:

This month we focus on using the Component Archive within the Demonstration System.

NAMS Property promotes a way of undertaking condition assessments that are seen as a paradigm shift in the industry.  The approach uses the property surveyor to provide information to the Asset Manager, where the Asset Manager is the one who makes decisions on the timing of future work rather than the surveyor.

This shifts the approach from identifying future works, to identifying and describing assets.  A small set of key data can be used to determine renewals programmes, maintenance schedules, taxation depreciation schedules and depreciated replacement cost valuations including calculated depreciation.  This is only possible if the full range of the building's components are assessed rather than just those components that require short term work.

Movements in the Industry

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