Many water supply and sewerage utility managers today face the challenge of reducing non-revenue water, while increasing level of service, expanding the distribution network to respond to population growth, finance replacement and timely maintenance of existing assets, as well as treating wastewater. The way a water utility manages its assets determines the success in facing these challenges. A water utility can improve the level of service, reduce water losses, reduce costs and justify tarifs, if it know what assets it owns, what is the condition of the assets, when and how to maintain or replace them. This training course adresses all the basic elements of asset management with the main purpose of raising awareness for the importance of asset management.
Target Group
This training course has been developed for professionals of water supply and sewerage utilities, and it is especially useful for directors, engineers, accountants and managers.
Objectives of Training Course
At the end of this training course, the participants will be able to:
Recognize the concept of asset management and its main components;
Recognize the benefits of asset management;
Complete the asset inventory of the utility;
Use different ranking systems to estimate asset condition;
Recognize what is an asset data management system and its purposes;
Determine the level-of-service that the utility will strive to provide and the most efficient way to deliver that level- of-service;
Determine which assets are critical and identify the possible costs of their failure;
Identify the appropriate operating and maintenance procedures;
Recognize the concept asset life-cycle management;
Identify founding sources to finance asset management program.
Training Method
The training is based on lectures presented in PowerPoint, combined with discussions and case studies. In addition to lectures and discussions, participants will analyses specific case studies.
Training Course Materials
The participants of this training course will be provided with the Training Manual “Asset Management”. In addition, the participants will receive certificates of attendance.
Registration Fee
Members of SHUKALB/SHUKOS: 13,000 ALL/person
Non-members: 16,000 ALL/person
The registration fee includes course materials, coffee breaks and lunch breaks.