Pre-recorded webinars

• 65 minutes

• What is meant by Useful Life?
• Application and Review of Useful Life
• Factors affecting Useful Life
• Useful Life of Plant and Fleet explained

• CPD: 1 hr
• Appreciate the importance of having a reliable estimate of useful life
• Know how Useful Life is applied

• Practice Note 12 – Useful Life of Infrastructure

• John Comrie

• $150/person per webinar
• $450/person for all three webinars.

• 75 minutes

• Estimating Useful Life
• Useful Life estimating methods
• Verifying Useful Life estimates
• Useful Life practice and reviews
• Documenting the Useful Life review

• CPD: 1 hr
• Appreciate the risk and service trade-offs when adjusting Useful Life
• Foster a clear and consistent approach to estimating Useful Life
• Calculate more reliable estimates of depreciation

• Practice Note 12 – Useful Life of Infrastructure

• John Comrie

• $150/person per webinar
• $450/person for all three webinars.

• 60 minutes

• What is Risk Management and why we should do it?
• How Risk relates to the AM Planning process
• Risks and critical infrastructure
• Service and cost implications
• Communicating risk and its importance

• CPD: 1 hr
• Describe the role of risk management in the Asset Management Process
• List the Steps in the Risk process
• Explain the different types of risks that organisations measure and manage
• Identify the link between Risk and the Asset Management or Risk Management Plan
• Identify the appropriate risk governance within an organisation

• Allen Mapstone

• $150/person per webinar
• $450/person for all three webinars.

John Comrie Director at JAC Comrie Pty Ltd

John is a former head of the South Australian Government’s Office for State/Local Government Relations and prior to that the Local Government Association of South Australia.

For the past 14 years he has consulted and conducted training courses nationally, focussing on local government financial sustainability issues.

He is a co-author of IPWEA’s Australian Infrastructure Financial Management Manual and written other guidelines material and conducted training courses for IPWEA to assist councils with financial sustainability and asset management.

Allen Maptstone Director Strategic Asset Management, IPWEA

Having spent close to 30 years’ experience in the government sector Allen has a broad range of experience including survey, design, construction and planning. Following the introduction of accrual accounting for infrastructure in Australia, Allen developed a keen interest in asset management planning, which became a full-time role from 2006.