Managing risks from defence deterioration, damage and breach whilst avoiding unnecessary expenditure on physical interventions is a considerable challenge and requires an understanding of a wide range of structure types and physical settings and working with a broad range of partners. A key element of good management is understanding the range of potential failure processes and carrying out various types of routine or more detailed assessments. It is also important to determine monitoring and maintenance requirements, assess the needs for modifications and renewals and to plan for and manage future extreme flood and coastal storm events.

HR Wallingford has been heavily involved in working with various partners over the years in developing guidance documents for asset management and design of flood and coastal assets. They have also been involved over the last 15 years in development of new assessment and inspection tools and techniques for asset management. This course will make this information available to interested practitioners.

The course will cover:

• an introduction to the asset management cycle;
• types of structures (hard, earthen and mobile) and typical management issues;
• roles, responsibilities, and communication in asset management;
• failure mechanisms and risk-based assessment of asset performance and reliability;
• the routines of inspection and monitoring, maintenance and repair;
• making changes: assessment of risk attributable to assets and prioritisation of interventions (modifications and new structures)within asset systems;
• dealing with asset incidents, including failures and breaches: emergency planning, preparedness, event and crisis management;
• acquiring asset management data, including real time monitoring;
• management of deterioration & whole life costs - aspiring to sustainable management.

Registration is now open and the standard delegate fee is £450.00 (excluding VAT at 20%). Bookings can be made online at http://events.hrwallingford.co.uk