What does this event cover
Many councils face a growing bridge renewal liability as ageing structures, constrained maintenance budgets, natural-hazard exposure and incomplete condition information increase long-term cost and network risk. A growing maintenance backlog can make it harder to move beyond reactive interventions and form a defensible long-term programme.
John Kerr, Senior Structural Engineer at Beca, will draw on experience in bridge engineering, asset management and local government investment planning to demonstrate how bridge data can be translated into risk-based maintenance, renewal and funding decisions. He will be joined by Ross Bayer, Team Leader Project Management at Co-Lab, who will provide lessons gained from extensive experience working in a local government context and focus on the importance of robust asset data, sharing practical insights into inspections, condition assessment and developing the evidence base needed for confident asset management decisions.
The presentation will cover inspection and information needs, assessment of condition and criticality, risk-based prioritisation, lifecycle planning, maintenance backlogs, renewal forecasting and communication of deferred-investment consequences.
- How to assess the maturity of a council’s bridge asset-management approach
- How to identify priority condition, criticality, risk and lifecycle information gaps
- How to develop risk-based maintenance and renewal priorities
- How to forecast renewal needs and communicate the consequences of deferred investment
- How to present a clearer investment case to governors and funding partners
The outcome sought is a more consistent and evidence-based approach across road controlling authorities, improving data quality, supporting transparent investment choices and directing limited funding towards the interventions that best manage whole-of-life cost, service and network risk.
Who should attend?
This webinar will be useful for anyone with an interest or role in Asset Management
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Your facilitators and guest speakers
John Kerr
John is a Senior Structural Engineer at Beca specialising in bridge and structures asset management. He brings 12 years’ engineering consultancy experience across New Zealand, Australia and the UK, spanning structural engineering, asset management and decarbonisation. John works with road controlling authorities to turn condition, criticality and risk information into practical maintenance, renewal and long-term investment decisions.
Ross Bayer
Ross has worked in Network management for the last twenty years evenly split between consulting and working as a local government employee. During this time Ross has been responsible for the delivery of both new construction and replacement bridges as well as inspections and maintenance. More recently his work is focussed on helping the Waikato councils with their asset management function and he has a strong interest the funding and financial aspects of good asset management.
Co-Lab is a council-controlled organisation owned by councils across Waikato and Bay of Plenty. In 2014 Co-Lab established RATA (Regional Asset Technical Accord) as a centre of excellence in road asset management to helps councils strengthen their asset management through collaboration, trusted data and shared technical expertise. Through its Structures Asset Management Services Contract RATA assists councils who are managing their bridge and structural inspection programmes and works with the teams providing asset management and long-term planning advice.
Raymond Horan
Raymond re-joined Taituarā in June 2014 as Sector Improvement Manager, before commencing his current role as Chief Advisor at Taituarā. He has spent most of the last 20 years in local government related roles, most recently with the Department of Internal Affairs.
He describes his job as two-thirds providing assistance to the local government sector and one-third providing advice to central government on local government matters. His ambition is to help develop a Local Government Act that doesn’t require changes every 18 months. He asks that you wish him well with this task.
