Upcoming MRiAM Virtual Chat on Zero Based Budgeting
Hosted by the AMCouncil’s Maintenance & Reliability in Asset Management special interest group
Monday 16 April @ 1 pm AEST
New Zealand Draft National Adaptation Plan
New Zealand has released a Draft National Adaptation Plan dated 27 April 2022 in an effort to build climate resilience by driving significant, long-term shift in policy and institutional frameworks. The plan sets out a proposed future work programme, indicating priorities over the next six years in an effort to enable better decisions to be made about the response to the changing climate. Download the draft plan here.
Details on how to provide comments on the draft plan can be found here.
Upcoming MRiAM Webinar on Sustainable Planned Maintenance Budgets
Sustainable Planned Maintenance Budgets
Hosted by the AMCouncil’s Maintenance & Reliability in Asset Management special interest group
Tuesday 26 April @ 1.30 pm AEST
New Board member elected at AM Council AGM
At the AMPEAK 2022 conference early April, the Asset Management Council held its annual AGM. At the meeting a new Board member was elected. There were three applications for one place on the Board and after voting, Nicola Daaboul was elected.
In addition to congratulating Nicola, the AM Council would like to thank outgoing Board member Glenn Ingram for his work and commitment to the AMCouncil board over the last 10 years.
Nicola recently published an article in Government News on Why Smarter Choices in Funding Allocation are Essential for Sustainable Service Delivery. Read the article here.
Critical Infrastructure Bill
Changes to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 are planned that are of importance to asset management with provision being made to:
Decarbonisation Pathways for the Australian Cement and Concrete Sector
The Asset Management Council is a partner with research unit Smartcrete CRC. A project funded through the Smartcrete CRC “Decarbonisation Pathways for the Australian Cement and Concrete Sector” cumulated in a report released in February 2022. Details about the project can be found here. A copy of the report can be downloaded from here.
We are privileged to have the CEO of the “Cement Industry Federation of Australia”, Dr Margie Thomson, present the international report on “Decarbonisation Pathways for the Australia Cement and Concrete Sector” report to our delegates at AMPEAK in the 4:40pm till 5:05 pm session on Monday 4th April 2022.