Webinar – Transforming Infrastructure Decision Making: Aqwest’s Strategic Decommissioning and Infrastructure Prioritisation Framework

This presentation will focus on how Aqwest, in partnership with BetterAIM, developed a transparent, corporate-objective-aligned decision framework to address increasing climate risk, ageing infrastructure and uncertainty around which assets should be renewed, retained or decommissioned within the Bunbury Water Supply Scheme.

The co-designed methodology integrates weighted strategic objectives, risk and benefit scoring, and pre- and post-mitigant analysis to prioritise activities across the entire scheme. The framework transformed reactive project listings into structured, evidence-based infrastructure governance.

The framework has reshaped the Strategic Asset Plan and long-term water strategy, strengthened Board confidence, and is being embedded more broadly within the organisation. It represents a significant innovation in infrastructure planning under uncertainty.

Part of the Asset Management in Action Webinar Series – showcasing submissions from the 2026 Excellence Awards.

Cameron Jessup is the Regional Director – Queensland / Technical Director – Water Services Advisory at BetterAIM.