Infrastructure Asset Management Training Course

Duration 10 days 16 modules · 65 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Asset Managers, Maintenance Managers and others
Fee from USD 2,200 KSh 190,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 9 Nov 2026 Course code SD-OM-036

Before you join: Participants should have practical exposure to infrastructure, facilities, utilities, transport, industrial assets or public works through operations, engineering, maintenance, planning, finance or procurement roles.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Infrastructure owners must provide safe, reliable and affordable services while managing ageing assets, constrained budgets, regulatory duties and changing demand. Roads, water networks, power systems, rail assets, ports, public buildings and industrial facilities all require decisions that balance immediate operational needs against long-term service, risk and cost. Poor asset information, unclear ownership, reactive maintenance and weak investment cases can produce avoidable failures, service interruptions and unfunded liabilities.

This course equips participants to establish and improve an asset management system using ISO 55000 principles. Participants learn to define service outcomes, develop asset hierarchies, assess criticality, set performance measures, plan lifecycle interventions and prioritise investment. The course covers condition assessment, risk-based decision-making, maintenance strategy, reliability methods, work management, asset data governance, financial planning, procurement and resilience planning. Participants connect strategic asset management plans with practical maintenance, renewal and capital decisions.

Teaching combines instructor briefings with infrastructure cases, facilitated analysis, group decision exercises, maintenance and investment simulations, and individual application planning. Participants progressively build a practical asset management pack based on an asset class or service familiar to them. They leave with reusable templates and a reviewed lifecycle plan, risk register, maintenance strategy and investment prioritisation model that can be adapted for their organisation.

The course is suited to professionals responsible for infrastructure performance, maintenance, capital planning, engineering, operations, finance, procurement or regulatory assurance. It is equally relevant to public authorities, utilities, transport operators, facility owners and asset-intensive industrial organisations.

What you will be able to do

  • Apply ISO 55000 principles to structure an asset management system
  • Develop service-level objectives, asset hierarchies and asset information requirements
  • Assess asset criticality using consequence, likelihood and control-effectiveness criteria
  • Build lifecycle plans that connect condition, maintenance, renewal and capital interventions
  • Prioritise maintenance and investment portfolios using risk, cost and service criteria
  • Design risk-based maintenance strategies using RCM and failure mode analysis
  • Prepare asset management performance measures, governance controls and review routines
  • Present a complete asset management plan for a defined infrastructure asset portfolio

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Produce defensible lifecycle and renewal recommendations for asset portfolios
  • Speak confidently with engineers, finance teams, operators and regulators about asset value
  • Turn condition and failure data into maintenance and investment priorities
  • Build a practical asset management plan for a current work responsibility
  • Strengthen readiness for asset manager, maintenance manager and capital planning roles

For your organisation

  • Clearer links between service commitments, asset risk and funding decisions
  • More consistent maintenance, renewal and replacement prioritisation
  • Reduced dependence on reactive work and unsupported capital requests
  • Improved audit evidence for asset governance, performance and decision records
  • Better quality asset information requirements for internal teams and suppliers

Course modules

16 modules over 10 days

Participants can explain how asset management converts organisational objectives into value-focused asset decisions.

  • ISO 55000 asset management principles and value realisation logic
  • Asset portfolios, systems, components and supporting operational resources
  • Line of sight from organisational objectives to asset decisions
  • Service, cost, risk and opportunity as decision criteria
  • Asset management policy, objectives and strategic asset management plan
  • Roles of governing body, asset owner and service provider

Participants can define governance arrangements and management system controls for asset management.

  • Three lines model for assurance and management accountability
  • RACI matrix for asset ownership, maintenance and investment decisions
  • Management system scope, interfaces and documented information requirements
  • Decision rights for operating, maintaining, renewing and disposing assets
  • Internal audit evidence for policy, plans, records and reviews
  • Management review agendas linked to performance, risk and improvement

Participants can create an asset hierarchy and specify decision-useful asset information.

  • Functional location hierarchies linking systems, assets and maintainable items
  • Asset register fields for identity, location, ownership and status
  • Data standards for naming, coding, classification and attribute definitions
  • Information requirements derived from maintenance, risk and investment decisions
  • Data quality dimensions: completeness, accuracy, validity, timeliness and consistency
  • Baseline asset information improvement plan with accountable data owners

Participants can translate service requirements into criticality criteria and asset priorities.

  • Service-level objectives expressed through availability, capacity, quality and safety
  • Demand forecasting assumptions for population, throughput and usage changes
  • Criticality matrices using consequence, likelihood and detectability criteria
  • Customer, safety, environmental, financial and regulatory consequence categories
  • Asset dependency mapping for single points of failure
  • Criticality scores tested against operational knowledge and incident history

Participants can prepare lifecycle plans covering operation, maintenance, renewal and disposal.

  • Lifecycle stages from concept design through disposal and handback
  • Intervention options: operate, maintain, refurbish, replace or retire
  • Whole-life cost profiles for competing asset intervention options
  • Decision gates linking asset condition, service risk and funding
  • Lifecycle plans structured by asset class and planning horizon
  • Assumptions registers recording uncertainty, constraints and decision owners

Participants can use condition and performance evidence to identify asset intervention needs.

  • Condition grading scales with observable defect definitions and thresholds
  • Inspection plans based on asset criticality and deterioration uncertainty
  • Performance measures for reliability, availability, capacity and service quality
  • Trend analysis separating random variation from persistent deterioration
  • Leading indicators for inspection compliance, defects and overdue work
  • Condition data confidence ratings used within investment recommendations

Participants can identify, evaluate and treat asset-related risks using structured risk methods.

  • ISO 31000 risk process applied to infrastructure asset failures
  • Bow-tie analysis linking threats, controls, consequences and recovery measures
  • Risk registers with causes, events, impacts, controls and owners
  • Control effectiveness testing through design and operating evidence
  • ALARP reasoning for safety risks and treatment decisions
  • Risk appetite thresholds for service interruption, safety and compliance

Participants can select maintenance strategies based on failure consequences and asset behaviour.

  • Reliability-centred maintenance functions, functional failures and failure consequences
  • Failure modes and effects analysis for critical infrastructure equipment
  • Preventive, predictive, corrective and run-to-failure maintenance selection
  • P-F interval concept for condition-based maintenance task intervals
  • Maintenance task specifications defining standards, labour and materials
  • Bad actor analysis using repeat failures, downtime and maintenance cost

Participants can design a controlled work management process for planned and corrective work.

  • Work order workflow from request, screening and planning to closeout
  • Job plans defining scope, permits, parts, skills and durations
  • Weekly scheduling using available labour, priorities and access windows
  • Backlog analysis by age, priority, craft and asset criticality
  • Emergency work controls preventing repeated displacement of planned tasks
  • Closeout codes capturing failure, cause, remedy and asset history

Participants can prioritise renewal and capital interventions using transparent evaluation criteria.

  • Renewal triggers based on condition, performance, risk and obsolescence
  • Multi-criteria decision analysis for competing capital interventions
  • Risk reduction estimates compared with intervention cost and timing
  • Business cases stating baseline, options, benefits, costs and residual risks
  • Portfolio prioritisation charts using urgency, value and delivery readiness
  • Capital programme sequencing constrained by outages, permits and dependencies

Participants can build financial views that support lifecycle and investment decisions.

  • Whole-life cost model including capital, operating, maintenance and disposal costs
  • Discounted cash flow assumptions for long-lived infrastructure investments
  • Opex and capex distinctions within asset intervention planning
  • Asset renewal forecasts using unit costs, quantities and intervention timing
  • Scenario analysis for deferred renewal, demand changes and inflation
  • Funding gap statements linking required works to available budgets

Participants can specify asset management requirements for suppliers and outsourced service providers.

  • Output specifications linking service levels, assets and contract obligations
  • Asset data handover requirements for construction and maintenance suppliers
  • Performance-based contract measures for availability, response and quality
  • Supplier scorecards covering safety, work quality, data and schedule adherence
  • Change control for scope, asset information and lifecycle obligations
  • Handover acceptance criteria before operational responsibility transfers

Participants can define digital information controls that support asset decisions and assurance.

  • EAM and CMMS data structures supporting work, history and cost analysis
  • GIS asset location records linked to condition and inspection evidence
  • BIM information requirements for handover, operations and future renewal
  • Master data governance for asset classes, codes and controlled changes
  • Dashboard design connecting service, risk, cost and work indicators
  • Data validation rules preventing duplicate, incomplete and inconsistent records

Participants can incorporate resilience and climate-related threats into asset lifecycle decisions.

  • Resilience attributes: resistance, redundancy, resourcefulness and rapidity
  • Climate hazard screening for flood, heat, drought and storm exposure
  • Vulnerability assessments linking hazards, assets, services and populations
  • Emergency response plans identifying contingencies, spares and mutual aid
  • Stress testing service systems against credible disruption scenarios
  • Adaptation options assessed through lifecycle cost, risk reduction and feasibility

Participants can establish performance reviews and improvement actions for asset management plans.

  • Balanced scorecards linking strategic objectives to asset performance measures
  • KPI definitions specifying formula, source, frequency, owner and threshold
  • Root cause analysis using five whys and cause-and-effect diagrams
  • Internal assurance reviews testing plan implementation and decision records
  • Maturity assessments identifying priority capability improvement actions
  • Continuous improvement registers tracking actions, benefits and closure evidence

Participants can build, review and present a complete asset management plan for a defined infrastructure portfolio.

  • Asset management plan scope, service objectives and portfolio boundaries
  • Asset hierarchy, criticality profile and information improvement priorities
  • Lifecycle interventions supported by condition, risk and performance evidence
  • Maintenance strategy, work controls and reliability improvement actions
  • Investment portfolio ranked through cost, risk reduction and service impact
  • Governance, KPIs, assurance calendar and implementation roadmap

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. ISO 55000-aligned asset management plan template
  2. Asset criticality and risk assessment matrix
  3. Lifecycle intervention and whole-life cost model
  4. Risk-based maintenance strategy template
  5. Capital investment prioritisation scorecard
  6. Asset information governance checklist

Who should attend

  • Asset Managers — responsible for translating service commitments into asset decisions
  • Maintenance Managers — need defensible maintenance strategies and work priorities
  • Infrastructure Operations Managers — manage service performance, outages and operational risk
  • Engineering Managers — coordinate technical standards, renewal needs and asset condition
  • Capital Planning Managers — prioritise renewal and improvement programmes against constrained budgets
  • Finance and Procurement Managers — assess whole-life cost, supplier obligations and investment cases

Skills and tools covered

Lifecycle planningAsset criticality analysisRisk-based maintenanceCapital prioritisationAsset information governancePerformance management

Tools and standards

ISO 55000, ISO 31000, Reliability-Centred Maintenance, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to introduce standards, decision methods and practical templates. Participants work through realistic cases involving water networks, transport corridors, public facilities and industrial plant. Group exercises test criticality scoring, maintenance choices, outage responses and investment trade-offs. Simulations show how changing demand, condition and budget assumptions affect service risk. Participants apply each major method to a selected asset class, receive peer and instructor review, and refine their work into a final asset management plan.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical exposure to infrastructure, facilities, utilities, transport, industrial assets or public works through operations, engineering, maintenance, planning, finance or procurement roles. They should understand the basic purpose of the assets or services they support and be comfortable discussing costs, risks and operational performance. Prior study of ISO 55000, reliability engineering, accounting or project management is not required. Advanced statistical analysis, specialist software skills and an engineering degree are not required, although participants may bring current asset reports or plans.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants need practical familiarity with an infrastructure, facilities, utility, transport or industrial asset environment. Formal asset management qualifications and prior knowledge of ISO 55000 are not required.

Bring a laptop if possible, plus any non-confidential asset register extracts, maintenance reports, condition assessments or investment plans you wish to use. Course templates and case materials are provided.

It suits asset, maintenance, operations, engineering, capital planning, finance and procurement professionals working with physical infrastructure. It is particularly useful for people who must justify maintenance or renewal priorities.

Maintenance management focuses mainly on planning and controlling maintenance work. This course places maintenance within wider lifecycle, service, risk, information, governance and capital investment decisions.

Participants can use the templates to assess an asset class, clarify criticality, improve maintenance selection and prepare an investment case. The final plan provides a practical starting point for discussions with operational, finance and leadership teams.

The first week establishes asset management foundations and builds working analyses for service, criticality, lifecycle planning, condition and risk. The second week develops maintenance, investment, information, resilience and assurance work before the final capstone presentation.

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