Strategic asset management

Protect against risk and unlock value.

Infrastructure owners and operators face multiple complex challenges in realising 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 programme delivery. We work with you to:

Build asset management capability

We focus on people and organisational effectiveness, aligning assets, staff capacity and skills, corporate strategy and structure, knowledge and capital with target outcomes, to achieve sustainable performance.

Optimise investment plans

Through long term investment planning, we help you make informed and effectively prioritised decisions that maximise 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.

Maximise value from assets

We help you realise the full value of your assets, considering social and environmental outcomes in addition to the balance sheet.

Benefit from digitalisation

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.

Network Rail earthworks policy development, condition assessment and prioritisation, UK. With 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.

Services we provide

Maximising 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 to managing your assets as an integrated system.

We can help you to:

Develop full asset inventories and hierarchies, giving you a comprehensive picture of all the assets you own, their roles, interdependencies and criticalities, their condition and performance.
Determine deterioration rates, define the ‘state of good repair’ at which assets are performing to the desired standard, and define the works required – and their cost – to achieve good repair.
Work out acceptable trade-offs so that you can be certain that available money is being used to best effect.

We can help you to:

Create a unified view of all your assets and capital, maintenance and operational activities.
Develop data management and digital systems for improved asset and operational intelligence and decision making.
Align your organisation and supply chain with your asset management objectives.
Develop investment roadmaps for reducing exposure to risks, achieving change and realising opportunities.
Narrate your asset management journey and explain decisions to internal and external stakeholders, including investors, regulators and customers.

Our people

Meet the team

Our experience

Lower Catskill Aqueduct survey, New York, USA

The 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 1.6km 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 visualisation. Inspection and defect mapping on the 1.6km 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.
Network Rail earthworks policy development, condition assessment and prioritisation, UK

With 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.
Water resources options development to 2100, Thames Water, UK

Facing 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.
Water treatment plants, Australia

We designed a real-time data analytics system for several activated sludge treatment works, to gauge the best time to clean aeration tanks and de-clog 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.
West Virginia Transportation Asset Management Plan, USA

West 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.