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Driving value through data-led strategic and operational decision making.
Reduce OpEx for Urban Utilities considering recently revised income forecasts in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By unlocking the value in existing data, we developed an optimised maintenance strategy. This enabled a leaner and more effective inspection replacement strategy for a range of Urban Utilities’ assets.
We worked in close collaboration with Urban Utilities team to deliver a transparent process and build capability. We adopted an agile approach, with prioritisation of analysis, focusing on key levers:
Beginning with a top-down review of value drivers, we translated initiatives into a transformation roadmap. Prioritising initiatives based on business value and ease of implementation.
Combining our integrated asset management expertise with data science and financial reliability modelling techniques, our team developed detailed proof-of-concept decision support tools and lifecycle value models.
Our team identified a maintenance optimisation program to drive continuous improvements and process efficiencies that will:
It will set Urban Utilities on a path for sustainable improvement, contributing to:
We identified AUD1.8m in annual savings & improved data quality by 100% with an optimised utilities maintenance strategy.
The GHD Advisory team was instrumental in identifying opportunities to pursue data-driven maintenance and evidence-based decision-making about asset renewals.
The team was excellent at working collaboratively with the various internal teams responsible for OpEx and CapEx decision-making, developing our internal capability to pursue this approach beyond the project engagement.
The GHD Advisory team offered insight and assisted in developing tools and processes that now help to scope and prioritise optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives, track progress and successfully land changes that deliver value or reduce risk.”