Renewal Planning, Valuation and Asset Management Plans
Second Parks Practice Note Underway
Following the successful production of Parks Practice Note 10.1, IPWEA is now ready to develop the second practice note in the parks series, which is designed to provide practical parks specific guidance to financial budgeting and planning, valuations, renewal plans and asset management plans.
Invitation to participate in Industry Reference Group
To ensure we represent current best practice, from across the industry, we are inviting parks practitioners with experience in parks asset management to join a reference group to provide input and feedback to the development of the Practice Note. You will be required to respond to draft documents via email in a timely manner as the Practice Note is developed over the next 4 to 6 months.
If you are interested in participating in the Reference Group, please provide a brief resume of your skills and experience, particularly related to the area of parks asset management by the 15th May, 2015 to emily.rankin@ipwea.org. The size of the Reference Group is limited.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- PROJECT PURPOSE
To prepare a Practice Note document that provides practical parks specific best practice complimented with industry examples to provide guidance and advice to implementing asset management tasks in the areas of financial budgeting and planning, valuation, renewal plans and asset management plan preparation.
Practice Note 10.2 will included the following:
- WHAT ARE PRACTICE NOTES
IPWEA is developing a series of Practice Notes across the range of community infrastructure activities that its members are commonly involved with. The Practice Notes are intended to provide practical guidance with real life examples, to assist practitioners in implementing the principles and requirements of asset management outlined in the IIMM.
- REFERENCE GROUP REQUIREMENTS
A working reference group is being formed to assist the project managers with the development of the resource. This group will be required to be active; there will be work to do! The preparedness to meet reply deadlines will be critical. The reference group will be asked to use their knowledge, experience and networks to assist with the development of the resource. This will primarily take the form of responding to drafts developed by the project manager. They will also be requested to assist in supplying and reviewing working templates and examples.
- TIMEFRAMES
The intention is to complete Practice Note 10.2 by the end of August 2015. The Reference Group will have approximately 10 working days to respond with feedback to the various draft stages as they are developed. The project plan identifies 2 stages requiring feedback in May and July.
- PROJECT MANAGERS
IPWEA has appointed Xyst Limited to work with industry representatives to develop the Parks Practice Notes. If you wish to contact the project manager for further technical information, please contact Brian Milne brian@xyst.biz.
To register your application for the Reference Group, please forward your brief resume outing skills and experience to emily.rankin@ipwea.org.
For further information regarding Xyst, please refer to their website www.xyst.biz