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SPM has been commission by Regional Facilities Auckland (RFA) to conduct an initial consolidation of asset management planning information associated with facilities now managed by RFA.
RFA is a council controlled organisation that was created with the formation of Auckland Council in 2010 to provide a regional approach to developing Auckland’s arts, culture and heritage, leisure, sport and entertainment venues. The associated facilities were previously managed by a number of different organisations in various ways meaning the extent of asset management planning conducted was in many different forms.
This initial consolidation project is the first step in developing a consistent approach for all RFA facilities and will allow RFA to understand future requirements and to target improvement activities of the highest priority.
SPM is excited by the opportunity to work with RFA, an organisation with such an array of facilities assets, and is looking forward to developing an on-going relationship. |
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SPM has recently developed and tested several web services interfaces. Web services allow any system to communicate over a network using a standardised protocol, typically SOAP over HTTP using XML.
SPM provides both standard interfaces based on SPM Assets' dataflow models and customised interfaces for more sophisticated system integrations.
SPM is currently scoping integration with SAP and other SOAP compliant systems for the purpose of providing data gathering and analysis capabilities that will enhance both integrated systems.
As a result of the development of web services integration, SPM has also built an applications stub into SPM Assets which allows external systems to directly display specified pages from SPM Assets within an external system's application.
It is envisaged that in the future SPM Assets' unique analytical processes will also be made available to external systems using web services. |
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Advanced User Group Meeting |
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An SPM Assets focus group meeting for advanced users will be held on 13 May in Auckland.
It will cover:
- Exploring the configuration options with Mobile Vrs 6.2 to undertake
- Condition and performance survey
- Defects survey
- Asset verification and tagging
- Simple data collection using asset attributes
- Testing and tagging
- Survey intelligence dashboards
- Infield work scoping with Schedule of Rates
- Dashboard reporting to provide ‘asset intelligence' to the governing body
- Creating templates for ‘Schedule of Components' for specific property types within asset references using the new ‘relationships' function
- Preventative maintenance regimes influencing asset remaining lives
- Present SPM's configuration for three of our largest clients to provoke ideas:
- Provincial Govt Western Cape (Sth Africa) - 7 mil m2 of floor space
- NSW Housing - 148,000 houses
- Auckland Council - $10bn of property assets
- Presentation of the current Roadmap items including:
- Interfacing module - provide for linking with any proprietary software through web services
- Extensive dashboard reporting - using historic works data to compare to current and forecast conditions and values
- Enhanced configurability - allowing Channel Partners and users to more easily configure the application for their needs
- Mobile Vrs7.0 - moving to the new HTML5 environment allowing for even greater functionality including options of Apple and Android Apps
- Performance optimisation - behind the scenes engineering through VMware Servers (cloud environment)
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SPM is facilitating 2011 NAMS Workshop in Australia |
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Based on the success of last year’s workshops around Australia, IPWEA/NAMS have invited SPM to lead a similar round of workshops based on the Practice Note 3, Building Condition & Performance Assessment Guidelines.
The workshops will be run over two days including a visit to local buildings to consider various principles. Attendees are limited to 30 people per workshop and are being held in:
Brisbane 24/25 May
Sydney 31 May / 1 June
Townsville 7/8 June
Perth 21/22 June
Adelaide 23/24 June
Launceston (Tasmania) 5/6 July
Ballarat 19/20 July
Canberra 26/27 July |
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Steve Lyons (MD of SPM) has been engaged through IPWEA and Local Government Association of South Australia, to facilitate a workshop in Adelaide for a group of six councils to develop a Specification for Building asset management planning.
The Specification will be used to provide consistency between Councils for tendering and undertaking asset management planning activities including surveys, analysis, reporting and procurement of works. |
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