GIS and Asset Management

February 13, 2006
8:00 am - 3:30 pm

Burnaby Hilton
6083 McKay Avenue, Burnaby,
Canada V5H2W7

Tel: +1-604-438-1200
Fax: +1-604-431-7782

Thank you to all of you who attended the GIS and Asset Management seminar. We had a great turnout to this event with total participants of 250. We appreciate your support in our endeavours to promote GIS knowledge through this type of seminar. Please see the attached map below for spatial distribution of participants.

The speakers represented local municipalities as well as vendors and consultants who work with local municipalities. Chuck Hansen kicked off the formal presentations will an overview of asset management drawing on Hansen Technologies' broad experience in the area. The next two speakers focussed on data issues related to asset management. Data requirements are significant for asset management endeavours and these speakers gave some insights into their experience in collecting and processing the data. The last two speakers before lunch focussed on actual experiences with asset management at the City of Vancouver and the Township of Langley.

After lunch, the focus of the first presentation was on the role of condition assessment in asset management. This was followed by a presentation on the financial aspects of asset management. This topic is sometimes overlooked, but is increasingly important in times of financial restraints and changing regulatory legislation. The last presentation of the day focused on the data aspects of asset management.

Thank you also to our Presenters and Sponsors. Events like this are successful because of all of you. We hope this event was as beneficial to you as it was to the attendants. Our Sponsor Logos, which have links to their website, will be left up on our site for the next two weeks. Please utilize these links to find out more about our sponsors for this event.

The presentations from the event have been added to this page for your future reference.

We also thank the Burnaby Hilton for their excellent service and support throughout the day. Thank you to all who helped us make this event as successful as it was.

We look forward to seeing you at the next event, which will be announced soon.

The URISA BC Executive

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF PARTICIPANTS

Note: The attendee counts are for people who gave their address for a given City and does not necessarily represent the number of people from a given City's municipal organization.

PROGRAM

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Registration Doors Open and Breakfast and coffee INTRODUCTION 8:30 - 8:50 a.m. Welcome to the Seminar - GIS and Asset Management Jonathan Mark, President URISA BC PRESENTATIONS 8:50 - 9:40 a.m. Who stole my Hydrant? Speaker: Chuck Hansen, Chairman and CEO, Hansen Technologies (presentation not available) 9:45– 10:15 a.m. Using GPS for GIS & Asset Management Speaker: Perry Holmes, Engineering Assistant, City of Langley Presentation 10:15 - 10:35 a.m. Coffee Break 10:35 - 11:05 a.m. GIS Data Collection and Reduction Procedures Speakers: Karen Stewart, Geomatics Manager, Township of Langley, Andrew Walther, P. Eng., K-Tek Presentation 11:10 - 11:40 a.m. Vancouver's Asset Management Experience: So Far, So Good? Speaker: Brian Willock, Construction Manager, City of Vancouver Presentation 11:45 - 12:15 a.m. Bridging the Gap between Engineering and GIS Speaker: Karen Stewart, Geomatics Manager, Township of Langley Presentation 12:15 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. Condition Assessment, Asset Management, Capital Planning for Underground Assets Speakers: Chris Macey, Brad Croft, Karen Leung, UMA Engineering Ltd. Presentation 2:05 - 2:35 p.m. Financial Perspective on Infrastructure Management Speaker: Terry Corrigan, Director of Financial Services, City of Vancouver Presentation 2:40 - 3:10 p.m. GIS Solutions to Infrastructure Asset Location Cross Referencing Speaker: Gary St. Michel, President, St. Michel Consulting Inc Presentation 3:10 - 3:30 p.m. Closing Remarks and Door Prizes

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