A special late afternoon, technical discussion for the AMCouncil New Zealand was held on Monday 21st August 2017 to an enthusiastic group in Auckland. The topic of discussion was financial models for long term asset management planning.
On our guest panel of presenters was Raymond Tan from Auckland City Council who spoke on developing financial models for long term asset management planning. Philip McFarlane from Opus spoke about a research project for the UC Quake Centre and development of a framework for renewals planning for wastewater networks. Lastly, AMCouncil’s own Peter Kohler presented on how to develop a ‘defensible’ maintenance budget.
It was insightful to look at the similar challenges from different perspectives throughout each presentation but, more importantly, the informal conversations before and after the presentations highlighted further opportunities for the AMCouncil to have a strong presence in New Zealand. It was great to have a full room of our New Zealand members and guests participating in what we hope will be the start of more events for our organisation across the sea.