Asset Management

Asset Management for Municipalities

Tools and Resources

Building Your Community’s Climate Resiliency 

As the impacts of climate change touch communities across Canada, considering climate change in municipal asset management planning is key to increasing resilience and improving reliability for delivering municipal services in the future. 

The following knowledge product tools have been developed to support municipalities in their asset management journeys: 

Knowledge Product Tool # 1: 
ACCIST:  Asset Condition and Climate Impact Scoring Tool 

 What is the ACCIST Tool? The tool is a template for: 

  1. Documenting the registry of buildings that includes location, age, condition and performance.  
  2. Recording the assessment of climate impacts at the system level, as a result of this documentation. 

The tool summarizes the condition information + climate impact in a dashboard overview that helps identify priorities for action.

The ACCIST Tool aligns with Ontario Regulation 588/17 Asset Management Planning for Municipal Infrastructure and the principles of ISO55000 (asset management) and ISO31000 (risk).  The course was delivered through on-line training in 2022.  We thank the participants in the course who provided feedback on the draft tool. 

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Knowledge Product Tool # 2: 
Integrating Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation in Asset Management 

The Region of Waterloo recognized that critical systems and infrastructure are at risk from climate change impacts; this is especially true for potable water services, systems and infrastructure.  Although these municipal assets have not been directly impacted yet, the potential for climate impact is high – and the consequences could be extreme.  The water services department at the Region of Waterloo has begun to assess and address risks with a collaborative and integrated approach. The municipality followed a three-step process: alignment, assessment, and synthesis. This case study presents how a municipality applied a decision-making framework for integrating climate change risk assessment and adaptation in asset management.   

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This initiative was offered through the Municipal Asset Management Program, which is delivered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and funded by the Government of Canada.

 

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In this fast-paced world, are you keeping up with your community’s expectations?  As more city dwellers choose to move to a rural setting, they can sometimes bring with them higher levels of service expectations. Can you continue to afford delivering the level of services that your residents expect? OSPE has a course designed to help you understand this balancing act between risk and cost known as Asset Management.

Asset management is about providing your community with the right service at the optimal cost. A fundamental component of asset management is level of service, identifying the current level of service and current performance delivery as well as desired levels of service in the future.  Delivering service is a balancing act, balancing level of service with risk and balancing level of service with cost.

asset management landscape

What is a good level of service?  It is the level of service that meets the needs of the community and the expectations of the public.  What level of service is affordable?  This is the challenge for municipalities, first to determine the cost of delivering the current service and through asset management to identify the required investments in the system to continue to provide service in the future.

OSPE’s Asset Management 201 course focuses on this balancing act and explores how levels of service are connected with risk and costs. The course also sheds some light on regulatory changes recently enacted through the Infrastructure for Jobs and Prosperity Act. The one-day course is designed to be interactive.  In fact, about half of the course includes activities in small groups, exploring the concepts and discovering how to apply the principles of levels of service.  Participants in the spring 2019 sessions commented on how valuable the working group activities are in organizing their thoughts on how to apply levels of service and risk to your own municipality.  Highlights from participants included:

  • “Working through an example case study helped to strengthen my knowledge”
  • “Most relevant was learning how to calculate risk”

Consider attending with others from your municipality, as asset management is a team sport!

For more information on the course, and to register, click here.

Funded by:

asset management sponsors combined

This initiative is offered through the Municipal Asset Management Program, which is delivered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and funded by the Government of Canada.

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