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Unit of Study PROJ5006 - Strategic Asset Management (2024)

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Unit description

Provides students with skills in the organisation, implementation and management of strategies to purchase, maintain and enhance the longevity of public and private infrastructure assets and engineering technology. Asset management software tools are introduced. Emphasis is on developing strategic asset management decision making skills in students, through activities that integrate underpinning theories and best engineering industry practice.

Unit content

  • Principles of life-cycle analyses associated with operation, maintenance and renewal of infrastructure assets
  • Assessing remaining service life and renewal strategies
  • Familiarisation with software tools
  • Planning and implementation of asset management: managing costs, resources, quality and risks
  • Asset management frameworks

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Term3
Term3
Melbourne
Term3
Term3
Online
Term3
N/A
Perth
Term3
Term3
Sydney
Term3
Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

explain, apply and reflect on asset management theory and frameworks.

integrate theory and best practice of infrastructure asset management to industry relevant problems

apply asset management tools to the stages of asset life-cycle

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • AS ISO 55000 series standards.

  • The IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineers Australia) asset management framework manuals.

  • Infrastructure Asset Management Software Solutions (http://www.deighton.com/) and others to be nominated.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.