Asset Management

All Alberta municipalities own, operate, and maintain various infrastructure assets, such as roads, sewers, and municipal buildings, each with a defined service life. Service life is the length of time an asset provides an acceptable level of quality, quantity, reliability, cost and responsiveness. Municipalities must ensure the full service-life is attained while keeping maintenance, rehabilitation and/or the replacement of assets cost-effective.

This page offers information and resources to help municipalities build a tactical framework and address their social, economic and physical needs through the creation and implementation of an asset management plan.

Asset management not only looks at life cycles and full cost accountability, but it can also be used by any and every department within a municipality to guide infrastructure planning and development. It helps ensure responsible stewardship for the public works sector, administrative accountability and public transparency.

Resources

In collaboration with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), Infrastructure Asset Management Alberta (IAMA), and Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA), Alberta Municipalities developed the following asset management courses to municipalities through funding received from FCM’s Municipal Asset Management Program (MAMP).

As part of the funding agreement with FCM, our asset management courses are available for our members.  To further your asset management knowledge, you can review the presentations, workbooks, and learning materials:

• An introduction to Asset Management
• Development of Asset Management Policy, Governance, and Capacity
• Data Collection and Communicating Levels of Service
• Strategic Basics
• Asset Management Cohort Risk 

Additional Asset Management resources include:

• Government of Alberta Asset Management Handbook and Toolkit
• Government of Alberta, Getting Started: Toolkit User Guide
• Infrastructure Asset Management Alberta (IAMA) Association 

For more information on asset management, please contact our advocacy team at advocacy [at] abmunis.ca (advocacy[at]abmunis[dot]ca).