Strategic asset management · ISO 55000 series

Develop and embed strategic asset management capability.

Get more value from the assets you already own before building new ones. AssetEnable helps governments and asset-owning organisations support long-term investment planning, improve the quality of asset information and enable data-led decisions, in line with the ISO 55000 series and the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape.

Free · 60 minutes · Live on Thursday 19 November, 9:30am or 3:30pm London · Recording for every registrant

Connected infrastructure assets working together as a system of systems

A system of systems

Nature, infrastructure and services, connected by trusted information

Economic and social infrastructure sits within the natural environment and exists to deliver services to people. Digital twins and good asset information connect these systems, so decisions on policy, strategy and asset plans deliver better outcomes for communities, the economy and nature.

System of systems: natural environment, economic and social infrastructure and services, linked by digital twins to insight, decisions and outcomes

What is an asset? What is asset management?

Getting the most value from the things you own

An asset is an item, thing or entity that has potential or actual value to an organisation. Asset management is the coordinated activity of an organisation to realise value from its assets.

Definitions from ISO 55000, the international standard for asset management.

Assets can be physical or digital, and today they are increasingly linked as cyber-physical systems: sensors, control systems, data and software are part of how bridges, networks, buildings and plant perform. We help governments, infrastructure owners and anyone with a large asset portfolio to manage their physical and digital assets strategically, in combination, balancing performance, cost and risk across their whole life. Your data and information are assets too: they need owners, standards, quality checks and investment, just like the assets they describe.

An asset

Something of value to your organisation. It can be physical, natural or digital.

  • A bridge, road or railway
  • A school, hospital or office
  • A pump, boiler or substation
  • A woodland, river or reservoir
  • A dataset, software or licence

An asset system

A set of assets that interact or are interrelated to deliver a service. The value comes from the system, not from each piece on its own.

Example: a water network is reservoirs, treatment works, pumps, pipes and sensors, joined by the data that ties them together.

Asset management

Deciding what to acquire, operate, maintain, renew or dispose of, balancing cost, risk and performance so your assets support your organisational objectives.

Standard to follow: the ISO 55000 series.

Four fundamental principles

Value

Assets exist to deliver value to the organisation and the people it serves, and that value takes many forms.

Alignment

Every asset decision traces back to the organisation's objectives, turning strategy into plans and action.

Leadership

Good asset management needs clear leadership and a culture that supports it at every level.

Assurance

You can show, with evidence, that assets are fulfilling the purpose they are needed for.

Our experience

Large-scale, national transformation programmes, delivered

Our team has led and advised transformational asset management programmes for national governments, treasuries and critical infrastructure owners, from policy and strategy through to the digital asset registers, information and enabling technologies that make change stick.

Leaders at a boardroom table signing an asset management policy that governs a bridge, a school and a pumping station

Policy and strategy

Strategic asset management policy

Developing national and organisational asset management policy, strategy and the strategic plan for asset management, aligned with ISO 55001 and ISO 55011.

Engineers checking a flood wall that protects a substation and a hospital from a high river, with a pumping station that depends on them

Resilience

National-level resilience programmes

Asset criticality and resilience programmes for mission-critical infrastructure, linking business continuity, climate adaptation and hazard exposure to investment decisions.

A planner balancing one maintenance plan across a bridge, a pump and a public building while engineers inspect, service and renew them

Maintenance

Asset management and maintenance strategies

Asset management plans and maintenance strategies that balance performance, cost and risk, and target renewals where they deliver the most value.

Leaders at a wall-sized roadmap with milestones, from today's ageing pumping station to its renewed target state

Change

Roadmaps for change

Gap analyses and practical, prioritised roadmaps that move organisations from where they are to where they need to be, with the people and governance to sustain it.

An asset manager at a digital asset register whose records link to a bridge, a school, a pumping station and woodland

Asset registers

Digital asset registers

Creating national and organisational digital asset registers for governments, treasuries and infrastructure owners. How we build a trusted register.

The digital twin cycle: GIS, BIM, live data and the asset information model feeding strategic asset management and better decisions

Enabling technology

Geospatial, digital twins and BIM

Using geospatial solutions, digital twins and building information modelling as enablers, applying international best practice and standards to maintain high-quality asset information.

14+

Years in information and asset management

100s

Organisations advised

1000s

People trained

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Regions: EMEA, AMER and APAC

Make the most of what you already own

The biggest opportunity is the assets you already have

Building new is not always the answer. Governments already hold vast portfolios of land, property and infrastructure. Knowing what you own, its condition, criticality and performance, and managing it well over its whole life, often releases more value, resilience and service than new construction.

  • Trusted asset information for whole-life decisions
  • Long-term investment plans linked to levels of service
  • Greater resilience to disasters, disruption and changing demand
  • Evidence-based business cases for investment and renewal

$101tn

Public sector assets held by 31 countries, about 219% of their GDP, including buildings, land and infrastructure.

IMF Fiscal Monitor, October 2018

3% of GDP

Extra revenue a year that better management of public assets could earn, more than advanced economies pay in debt interest.

IMF, A Global Picture of Public Wealth, 2019

$390bn

Yearly cost to households and firms in low- and middle-income countries from infrastructure disruption, including poor maintenance and mismanagement.

World Bank and GFDRR, Lifelines, 2019

$4 for $1

Average benefit from each dollar invested in more resilient infrastructure. The first recommendation: get the basics of management and maintenance right.

World Bank and GFDRR, Lifelines, 2019

What you need to achieve

Capability, investment planning, asset information and decisions

Most organisations come to us with the same brief: develop and embed strategic asset management capability, support long-term investment planning, improve the quality of asset information and enable data-led decisions. Each one maps directly to the ISO 55000 series and to the subject groups of the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape and the IAM Anatomy.

01 · Leadership and people

Develop and embed capability

Asset management leadership, organisational arrangements, culture and competence management (ISO 55012), so strategic asset management becomes how your organisation works, from the boardroom to the workplace.

02 · Asset management planning

Support long-term investment planning

A Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) that converts organisational objectives into asset management objectives, informed by demand analysis and life cycle value realisation across the whole asset life.

03 · Data and information

Improve the quality of asset information

An asset management data and information strategy, standards and governance (ISO 55013), so your asset register and asset information models are complete, consistent and trusted.

04 · Decision-making and value

Enable data-led decisions

Evidence-based decision-making that balances performance, cost and risk over the short and long term, and demonstrates the value your assets deliver to stakeholders.

Core ISO 55000 concepts

Line of sight and the whole asset portfolio

The ISO 55000 series connects what your organisation needs to achieve with the decisions you make about every asset. These ideas sit at the heart of it, and of our work. Both rest on a trusted asset register and asset information model.

Line of sight: leaders agree objectives, planners turn them into plans, and an engineer services a pump, joined by one line

Line of sight

From objectives to plans

Organisational objectives flow into an asset management policy, a strategic plan for asset management and asset management plans, so every intervention and investment traces back to what the organisation needs to deliver.

An asset manager looking across a whole portfolio of houses, a school, a hospital, a bridge, a substation, offices and woodland, linked as one network

Asset portfolio

Manage the whole portfolio

Land, property, infrastructure and digital assets managed as one portfolio and as asset systems, so you balance performance, cost and risk across services rather than asset by asset.

Asset registers and asset information

Quality information. Quality decisions. Better lives.

An asset register is far more than a list. When it is complete, accurate and current, it becomes the evidence behind every decision about what to maintain, renew, invest in or dispose of, and those decisions shape the services people rely on, their lives, society and our environment. We have built and improved asset registers for national governments, treasuries and infrastructure owners.

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Trusted register

What you own, where it is, its condition, criticality, performance and value, held once and governed well.

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Quality information

Information kept to a high quality using international best practice, including ISO 55013, ISO 8000 and ISO 19157-1.

03

Quality decisions

Evidence-based choices on maintenance, renewal and investment, balancing performance, cost and risk.

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Better outcomes

Reliable services, safer communities, resilient infrastructure and a healthier environment. How outcomes are measured.

From quality data to trusted information, better decisions, reliable services and lasting impact
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How we deliver · The AssetEnable ENABLE Pathway™

Six stages from the assets you own to the value they deliver

Every engagement, course and support tier follows the same clear path: Envision, Navigate, Assemble, Blueprint, Leverage, Embed. It is a cycle, not a one-off project, because strategic asset management keeps improving. You can start at any stage and we meet you where you are.

The ENABLE Pathway: Envision, Navigate, Assemble, Blueprint, Leverage, Embed, around value from the assets you own

01 · Envision

Purpose, policy and value

Agree what your assets are for, the outcomes and levels of service you need, and an asset management policy and objectives with clear line of sight to services.

You get: asset management policy and objectives aligned with the ISO 55000 series.

02 · Navigate

Baseline and maturity

Profile where you stand today against ISO 55001 and the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape, including digital twin maturity using ISO/IEC 30186.

You get: a maturity baseline, gap analysis and priorities.

03 · Assemble

Registers and information

Bring fragmented data together into a trusted asset register and asset information model aligned with the ISO 19650 series and ISO 55013, with consistent classification and location.

You get: asset register, information requirements and a data quality plan.

04 · Blueprint

SAMP, plans and roadmap

Develop the Strategic Asset Management Plan, asset management and maintenance strategies, and a prioritised roadmap for change linked to long-term investment planning.

You get: SAMP, asset management plans and a roadmap for change.

05 · Leverage

GIS, digital twins and BIM

Use geospatial mapping, digital twins and BIM to see relationships, risk, vulnerability and patterns of poor condition, so renewals and maintenance go where they matter most.

You get: GIS views, criticality and risk insight, and practical use cases.

06 · Embed

People, capability, improvement

Build competence, governance and performance review so strategic asset management becomes how your organisation works, and keeps improving.

You get: courses, coaching and a continual improvement cycle.

Trusted across government and industry

What governments and partners say about our work

The team behind AssetEnable has advised whole-of-government departments, national treasuries, critical national infrastructure operators and major asset owners, including on World Bank programmes across Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

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A direct and meaningful contribution to our asset management work with subnational governments: recommendations grounded in ISO 55000 and adapted to each state's institutional and legal realities. The work on asset registration and management standards has directly shaped the approaches these governments are now taking forward.

Public Sector Specialist, Governance Global Practice

World Bank · Brazil

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Senior-level competence in strategic asset management leadership, policy development and national reform: strategic asset management policies aligned with ISO 55001, national public asset registers, and practical roadmaps to improve the governance, performance and value of public assets.

Senior Governance Specialist

World Bank · Serbia, Estonia, Brazil, Philippines

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Characterising the criticality of public assets against typhoons, and training treasury staff, made a strategic contribution to the national asset registry, and to the policy, governance and implementation of public asset management.

Senior Lecturer, Civil and Systems Engineering

Johns Hopkins University · World Bank programme, Philippines

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Strategic thinking that produced excellent outcomes in the early stages of a large-scale programme, winning over senior leaders and influencing a wide range of stakeholders, so the work stood on strong foundations.

Chief Data Officer, Government Property

Cabinet Office, UK Government

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Technical excellence and strategic vision for GIS, pushing to fully integrate geospatial information into existing systems so delivery teams on the London Underground network gained real benefit.

Senior manager

Tube Lines · London Underground, now part of Transport for London

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Embedded as interim Head of Asset Management to create an asset management function and deliver a roadmap for alignment with ISO 55001. Recognised internationally for whole-life asset management of physical and digital assets.

Technical Director

WSP

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Course materials on ISO 19650 that were fantastic, with knowledge and delivery second to none: a subject matter expert we would not hesitate to recommend.

Digital and innovation leader

Bentley Systems · Digital Advancement Academy

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Delivered the ICE Certificate in BIM in-house for our infrastructure designers: evidently very experienced and qualified, and highly professional in how the course was set up and run.

Civil engineering leader, energy sector

Atkins

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The gap analysis explored every area of a large and diverse business, and reported back with findings, gaps and, most importantly, an action plan for moving forward.

Design Engineer

Engineering manufacturer · information management gap analysis

Quotes are extracts from references and testimonials for work delivered by the GeoEnable Group team; names are withheld.

Who we have worked with

Governments, infrastructure owners and industry

Governments and public bodies

Environment Agency
Homes England
NHS
Innovate UK
Centre for Digital Built Britain
Ordnance Survey
British Army
Government of the PhilippinesPhilippines · Bureau of the Treasury
Government of BrazilBrazil · federal government
Government of Minas GeraisMinas Gerais state government
Government of SerbiaSerbia · public asset registry
Government of EstoniaEstonia · Ministry of Finance

Local authorities

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Bristol City Council
Hertfordshire County Council
East Ayrshire Council
Havant Borough Council

International and multilateral organisations

The World Bank
SEADRIFASEAN+3 initiative with the World Bank
European Commission

Transport and infrastructure

Network Rail
HS2
Highways England
Gatwick Airport

Energy

EDF
Horizon Nuclear Power
ScottishPower Renewables

Engineering, consulting and industry

WSP
Wood
BAE Systems

Technology and professional bodies

Bentley Systems
Institution of Civil Engineers
BSI

Organisations the GeoEnable Group team has advised or worked with, directly or through World Bank programmes. Logos and emblems are shown for identification only and do not imply endorsement.

Services · System of systems · Criticality

Every public service depends on a system of assets

Clean water, healthcare, transport, power and digital services are all delivered by assets working together. A pumping station depends on the power network; a hospital depends on water, energy, roads and data. Strategic asset management starts with the service, then looks at the system of systems behind it, so you know which assets matter most, and why.

Pumping station supporting a water supply service

Services that need assets

Start with the level of service

Define the levels of service your communities rely on, then trace each one to the asset systems, assets and asset information that deliver it.

Asset managers ranking a substation, a pumping station and a bus shelter as red, amber and green by how much their failure would matter

Asset criticality

Know which assets matter most

A critical asset has the potential to significantly impact the achievement of your objectives. Criticality assessment ranks safety-, environment- and service-critical assets, so investment, maintenance and monitoring go where the risk is.

A substation powers a pumping station that serves a hospital, a road and homes: when one asset fails, everything that depends on it is affected

National mission-critical infrastructure

Protect the systems a nation runs on

Energy, water, transport, communications, health and defence are interdependent. We map dependencies across sectors, so a failure in one system doesn't cascade into the next and continuity plans reflect how services really connect.

System of systems thinking: value comes from how assets interact, so risk, resilience and investment decisions are made for the whole system, not asset by asset.

Asset classification and mapping

We specialise in knowing what you own, and where it is

Two things make a large estate manageable. First, classifying every asset in a consistent structure. Second, mapping it, and we mean mapping in two senses of the word.

Asset classification

Classification sorts every asset into a common structure, from asset class and asset system down to individual component, so like can be compared with like across your whole asset portfolio.

A simple example

Water (class) → Pumping station (system) → Pump (asset) → Motor (component)

Property (class) → School (system) → Heating plant (asset) → Boiler (component)

Wastewater treatment works, an asset system with many dependencies

Mapping 01 · Understanding the essence

Map what each asset is for

Map the meaning of your assets: the level of service each one supports, what it depends on, how it connects to other assets, and the value and risk it carries. This is the asset information model behind good decisions.

Water pipeline mapped in its physical location

Mapping 02 · Mapping the physical world

Map where every asset is

Locate your assets precisely on a map: where they sit, their boundaries, what surrounds them, and their exposure to flood, heat and other hazards. This is geospatial mapping, the core specialism of the GeoEnable Group: see how we use GIS.

A register tells you what you have. Mapping in both senses tells you what it is for, where it is, and how it all connects.

Geospatial solutions · GIS · Spatial data infrastructure

See every asset in place: its risks, relationships and condition

Geographic information systems turn an asset register into a living map. Mapping assets shows how they relate to one another and to the people they serve, reveals their vulnerability to floods, storms, earthquakes and other natural hazards, and lets you identify risk and visualise clusters and patterns of poor condition, so renewals and strategic maintenance are targeted where they matter most.

A man with a tablet pointing at stacked GIS layers of a town: roads, networks and an environmental heat map

GIS layers

Register, condition and hazard together

Overlay the asset register and condition data on base mapping and hazard layers to see exposure, criticality and patterns of decline across the whole portfolio.

A drone surveying a road bridge over a river while two surveyors work below

Survey and inspection

Capture condition at scale

Drones, mobile mapping and remote sensing capture the condition of bridges, buildings and networks quickly and safely, feeding the register and the digital twin.

An engineer in hi-vis updating asset information on a tablet beside a valve

In the field

Maintain the register where the asset is

Field teams view, verify and update asset information on handheld devices, so the register, the map and the maintenance plan stay current.

Geospatial and land standards and frameworks we work with

A national map built up from shared geospatial layers, with a team planning around a map table

UN-GGIM

Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF)

The UN framework and nine strategic pathways for developing national geospatial information management and spatial data infrastructure.

Land parcels with homes and fields, and a surveyor marking a boundary

UN-GGIM

Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA)

The UN framework that implements the UN-IGIF for the land sector, recognising people-to-land relationships for land policy, tenure, value, use and development.

A family at their home and garden plot, linked to its land record

ISO 19152-1:2024

Land Administration Domain Model (LADM)

The international conceptual model for parties, rights, restrictions, responsibilities and spatial units, linking land and property records to the asset register.

A server sharing the same map with a laptop and a tablet through open services

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium standards

Open, interoperable standards such as OGC API, GeoPackage and CityGML, so spatial asset data flows between systems, suppliers and digital twins.

A map checked with a magnifying glass beside a quality checklist

ISO 19115-1 · ISO 19157-1

Geographic metadata and data quality

Describing and assuring spatial asset data, with consistent asset taxonomy and classification across the portfolio.

A team restoring degraded land with new planting beside a stream

ISO 14055-1:2017

Land degradation and desertification

Good practice for land management to prevent or minimise land degradation, supporting natural capital and climate adaptation decisions.

Asset domains

Across every asset domain you're responsible for

From transport and energy to health, education and natural capital: strategic asset management applied across the whole public estate and the national infrastructure it depends on.

Railway station

Rail and stations

Road overbridge

Highways and bridges

Airport terminal

Aviation

Port terminal

Ports and maritime

Solar array

Energy and renewables

Water treatment works

Water and wastewater

Flood barrier

Flood and coastal defence

Data centre

Digital and telecoms

Hospital

Health

School

Education

Government and commercial office buildings

Property and government estate

Justice and secure estate

Justice and secure estates

Mixed woodland beside a stream, with two rangers recording the trees

Land and natural capital

A river catchment with wetlands, farmland and a village, from the wooded hills to the bridge downstream

Rivers and wetlands

Recycling centre

Waste and circular economy

Community library

Community and culture

Also: critical national infrastructure, defence estates, housing, public realm, and networks and digital assets.

AI, digital twins and asset management

AI in asset management: are you getting left behind?

Artificial intelligence is already changing how asset owners inspect, maintain and invest in what they own. It can spot patterns in condition data that people miss, read years of records in seconds, and test options before money is spent.

But AI doesn't fix poor information. It learns from your asset register and asset information model, so it can only be as good as the information you give it. The organisations getting real value from AI started with trusted asset information.

The AI loop: an asset is monitored by sensors and inspections, the information goes into the asset information model and register, AI finds insights, the digital twin shows them, people decide, and the work changes the asset
What's changing

How AI is changing whole-life asset management

Across the asset life, from planning and acquisition to operation, renewal and disposal, AI is moving organisations from looking back to looking ahead.

From fixing things when they fail→ to predicting failure and acting first
From periodic, manual inspection→ to continuous, targeted monitoring
From searching folders for answers→ to asking questions of your records
From annual plans built on averages→ to investment tested against risk and scenarios
A real asset with its parts linked to records in the asset information model: the trusted information AI learns from
Information first

AI is only as good as the information it learns from

The asset information model (AIM), defined in the ISO 19650 series, holds the trusted data, documents and models about each asset in use. With a complete asset register, it tells AI what you own, where it is, what condition it's in, how critical it is and what has been done to it.

ISO 55000 treats information as an asset in its own right, and ISO 55013 gives guidance on managing data assets. If the register is incomplete or inconsistent, AI will learn the wrong lessons, faster.

  • One trusted asset register, with a unique ID and location for every asset
  • Consistent classification, condition and criticality
  • History kept: inspections, defects, work done and costs
  • Clear owners, quality checks and security for the information
Practical benefits

Eight ways AI is helping asset owners today

None of these needs a moonshot. Each one starts with the information you already hold, and gets better as that information improves.

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Predictive maintenance

Condition and sensor data reveal early signs of wear, so you repair before a failure interrupts the service.

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Defect detection

AI reviews drone, CCTV and inspection images to flag cracks, corrosion and damage for an engineer to check.

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Faster data capture

Assets are identified and classified from surveys, photos and scans, filling gaps in the register far faster than by hand.

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Risk-based investment

Condition, criticality and cost are weighed across the portfolio, so the money goes where the risk is highest.

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Answers from records

Ask a question in plain English and get an answer from drawings, manuals and reports, with the source shown.

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Scenario testing

Test a budget cut, a flood or a change in demand in the digital twin, before you commit in the real world.

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Energy and carbon

Find where energy is wasted and which changes cut carbon most, then track the result.

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Smarter scheduling

Plan maintenance around risk, access, crews and outages, so fewer visits achieve more.

Where do you stand?

AI maturity in asset management

Most organisations are somewhere on the first three steps. Moving up depends less on new technology and more on the quality of your asset information and the people who use it.

Level 1No AI

Decisions rely on experience and spreadsheets. Asset data is scattered across teams and systems.

Level 2Experimenting

A few pilots or free tools, run by enthusiasts. Results are hard to repeat or trust.

Level 3Targeted use cases

One or two proven uses, such as defect detection, with an owner, a budget and measured benefits.

Level 4Integrated with the AIM and twin

AI draws on a trusted asset register and information model, and its results feed back into them and the digital twin.

Level 5AI-assisted decisions at scale

AI supports maintenance, renewal and investment decisions across the portfolio, under clear governance, with people accountable.

Free guide

AI and asset management: a practical guide for asset owners

What's changing, why information comes first, eight practical use cases, the maturity ladder and a 10-point readiness checklist, in a short, plain-English guide.

Or start with the free Awareness Session.

Outcomes that matter

Managed well, assets create value for people, places and the planet

Keeping assets running isn't the goal; the value they deliver is. Strategic asset management connects your decisions to the outcomes that matter to stakeholders, and to the international frameworks the world uses to measure them.

Farmland with fields, hedgerows, trees and livestock around a farmstead

The Six Capitals

A way of seeing every kind of value an organisation creates or draws down: natural, human, social, manufactured, financial and intellectual capital. Good asset management grows these capitals rather than depleting them.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

The 17 global goals agreed for 2030. Asset decisions shape many directly, including clean water, clean energy, resilient infrastructure, sustainable cities, responsible consumption and climate action.

ESG Targets

Environmental, Social and Governance commitments that boards, investors and regulators expect. Trusted asset information turns ESG ambition into measurable evidence.

The Sustainable Development Goals most shaped by asset management decisions

SDG 6: Clean water and sanitationSDG 7: Affordable and clean energySDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructureSDG 11: Sustainable cities and communitiesSDG 12: Responsible consumption and productionSDG 13: Climate action

Sustainable Development Goal icons from the United Nations. The content of this page has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the United Nations or its officials or Member States.

The ISO 55000 series gives you the system to connect asset strategy to all three, and the trusted information to prove the outcomes.

Risk, resilience and climate adaptation

Resilience and adaptation are asset management decisions

Floods, heat and storms now test the infrastructure and public estate you're responsible for. The World Bank and the United Nations agree on the starting point: you can't protect what you can't see. That means trusted information on where your assets are, what condition they are in, how critical they are, and which services depend on them.

Strategic asset management turns that principle into practice: linking your asset register to hazard and location data, assessing climate vulnerability, impacts and risk, and building business continuity and adaptation planning into your SAMP and long-term investment plans, before a shock arrives, not after.

Infrastructure and landscape adapted for climate resilience
Hydroelectric dam

Security and resilience

Business continuity and infrastructure resilience

  • ISO 22301:2019 — Business continuity management systems — Requirements
  • ISO 22316:2017 — Organizational resilience — Principles and attributes
  • ISO 22336:2024 — Organizational resilience — Guidelines for resilience policy and strategy
  • ISO 22372:2025 — Community resilience — Guidelines for infrastructure resilience
A coastline with salt marsh and dunes in front of homes set back on higher ground

Adaptation to climate change

Climate risk and adaptation planning

  • ISO 14090:2019 — Adaptation to climate change — Principles, requirements and guidelines
  • ISO 14091:2021 — Guidelines on vulnerability, impacts and risk assessment
  • ISO 14092:2026 — Requirements and guidance on adaptation planning for local governments and communities

We connect these standards with the ISO 55000 series, so business continuity, resilience and climate adaptation are built into your asset management system, criticality assessment and investment plans, not managed as separate exercises.

4 priorities

The UN's Sendai Framework puts understanding disaster risk first, then governance, investment in resilience, and preparedness with building back better.

UNDRR, Sendai Framework 2015-2030

12 to 14 times

UNEP finds that climate adaptation needs in developing countries are many times larger than the international public finance now flowing to them.

UNEP, Adaptation Gap Report 2025

Figures are cited from the named UNDRR and UNEP publications. AssetEnable is independent of these organisations and the references do not imply endorsement.

International best practice

The ISO 55000 series: the global standard for asset management

The internationally recognised framework for managing assets across their whole life, from strategy and investment to operation, maintenance and renewal. Applied well, it helps you protect continuity, build resilience, improve sustainability and base whole-life decisions on asset information you can trust.

The complete family of standards. We help you apply every relevant part:

ISO 55000:2024 — Vocabulary, overview and principles

The foundation of the series: what asset management is, the key terms, and the principles behind it.

ISO 55001:2024 — Asset management system requirements

The core, certifiable standard. It sets the requirements for an effective asset management system.

ISO 55002:2018 — Guidelines for the application of ISO 55001

Practical guidance on how to put the requirements of ISO 55001 into practice.

ISO/TS 55010:2024 — Alignment of financial and non-financial functions

How to connect asset management with finance, so value and cost are managed together.

ISO 55011:2024 — Development of public policy to enable asset management

Guidance for governments on shaping public policy that enables good asset management.

ISO 55012:2024 — People involvement and competence

Building the right roles, competence and culture to manage assets well.

ISO 55013:2024 — Management of data assets

Guidance on managing data as an asset: the backbone of digital asset management and digital twins.

ISO/CD 55002.2 — Revised application guidance (in development)

An updated, expanded edition of the guidance on applying ISO 55001.

ISO/CD TS 55014 — Guidance for asset management decision making (in development)

Emerging guidance on making better, evidence-based asset decisions.

ISO/CD PAS 55035 — Integrating sustainability within an asset management system (in development)

How to build sustainability into the asset management system.

Our focus is the ISO 55000 series. We connect it with ISO 19650 (information management), ISO 41001 (facility management), ISO 22301 (business continuity) and ISO 14090 (climate adaptation), so your asset strategy, information, resilience and operational services stay joined up across the whole asset life.

We use the language of the ISO 55000 series, the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape and the IAM Anatomy, so our advice fits the frameworks your auditors, regulators and peers already use.

Digital twins · ISO/IEC 30173 · ISO/IEC 30186

Digital twins are the enabler. Strategy is the outcome.

A digital twin is only as good as the asset register and asset information model beneath it. BIM, the golden thread and connected asset data matter when they serve a clear asset management strategy, so we start with your objectives and make the technology earn its place.

  • ISO/IEC 30173:2023, digital twin concepts and terminology, for a shared language across teams and suppliers
  • ISO/IEC 30186:2025, the international digital twin maturity model: we often help organisations profile their digital twin maturity and plan the next level
  • ISO/IEC 30188:2026, the digital twin reference architecture, alongside the ISO 19650 series for information management
Physical asset alongside its digital twin

Information management · ISO 19650 series

Secure, resilient asset information across the whole asset life

The ISO 19650 series sets out how to specify, deliver, maintain and protect information about buildings and infrastructure. It connects your organisational, asset and exchange information requirements to a trusted asset information model, so the register, the GIS and the digital twin all draw on the same governed information.

As physical assets become cyber-physical systems, information about them becomes a security risk as well as a resource. A security-minded approach under ISO 19650-5 protects sensitive asset information, so it supports resilience rather than undermining it.

Asset information model connecting a physical asset to its information

ISO 19650-1:2018

Concepts and principles

The shared language and principles of information management for the built environment.

ISO 19650-2:2018

Delivery phase of assets

Managing information through projects, building up the project information model.

ISO 19650-3:2020

Operational phase of assets

Maintaining the asset information model in use, the natural partner to the ISO 55000 series.

ISO 19650-4:2022

Information exchange

Consistent, quality-assured exchange of information between parties.

ISO 19650-5:2020

Security-minded information management

Protecting sensitive information about assets, systems and people, essential for critical national infrastructure and cyber-physical systems.

ISO 19650-6:2025

Health and safety information

Sharing structured health and safety information throughout project and asset life cycles.

Fixed-price plans you can start this week

The AssetEnable ARIADNE Programme™

In the Greek myth, Ariadne gave Theseus a thread to find his way through the labyrinth and back. The ARIADNE Programme is that thread for your organisation: a clear line of sight from your objectives, through the complexity, to every asset. Three stages on the ENABLE Pathway: find the thread, follow it, lead the way. Published prices and a clear scope; buy online by card, or ask us for an invoice. Every plan can also be delivered in-house for your team.

Certified to ISO 55001:2014? Certified organisations must move to the 2024 edition by 31 July 2027 (UKAS transition arrangements). The Health Check shows you what that means for you.

AssetEnable ARIADNE Programme
An adviser and an asset manager reviewing a scored ISO 55001 checklist beside a pumping station and a bridgeSTAGE 1: FIND THE THREAD

ISO 55001:2024 Asset Management Health Check

ENABLE stage 2: Navigate

£4,950 one-off, plus VAT

In 15 working days: where you stand against ISO 55001:2024, what to fix first, and a 90-day plan to do it.

  • A remote maturity baseline against ISO 55001:2024 and the 40 subjects of the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape
  • The areas new or changed in the 2024 edition: decision-making, the SAMP, knowledge and climate
  • A scored report
  • A prioritised 90-day roadmap

Clear scope, fixed price, plus VAT.

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Strategic Asset Management On Call

ENABLE stages 3 and 4: Assemble and Blueprint

£2,950 a month, plus VAT

A senior strategic asset management expert on call every month, so your policy, SAMP and asset information keep moving forward.

  • 3 days (22 hours) a month of senior support
  • Asset management policy and objectives
  • Drafting your Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP)
  • Asset register and data standards

Clear scope, fixed price, plus VAT.

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A head of asset management advising a board, with a portfolio of public buildings, a bridge and a water worksSTAGE 3: LEAD THE WAY

Fractional Head of Strategic Asset Management

All six ENABLE stages

£7,950 a month, plus VAT

A senior head of strategic asset management on your team, without a full-time hire.

  • Up to 5 days a month
  • Your SAMP and investment cases based on lifecycle value
  • Board and executive advisory
  • ISO 55001:2024 certification readiness

Clear scope, fixed price, plus VAT.

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Prices exclude VAT. UK customers pay VAT at 20%. Need something larger? See our bespoke programmes, or talk to us.

Asset management courses

Three courses to build asset management competence

Structured around the ISO 55000 series and the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape, from first awareness, to a clear roadmap, to embedding lasting change. Choose the course that fits where your team is today. Every course can also be delivered in-house for your team.

Course 01

Awareness

Understand the ISO 55000 series, the asset management system and what strategic asset management means for your organisation.

From £495

per person

  • Self-paced ISO 55000 foundations course
  • Module guides, glossary and assessments
  • Certificate of completion
  • 3 months community access

Course 02 · Most popular

Roadmap

Build your organisation's practical roadmap to apply the standards, develop a SAMP and lift asset management maturity.

From £1,195

per person

  • Everything in Awareness, plus:
  • Implementation toolkit and templates
  • A prioritised application roadmap
  • Asset management maturity assessment
  • 12 months community access

Course 03

Embedding Lasting Change

Embed strategic asset management capability across your organisation so the change endures.

From £5,950

per cohort

  • Everything in Roadmap, plus:
  • Tailored in-house delivery
  • 12 months advisory support
  • Monthly group coaching sessions
  • Competence framework (ISO 55012)

Volume discounts for teams and organisation-wide roll-out.

The more seats you take, the lower the price per person. Ask us about enterprise and whole-of-government licensing.

Bespoke programmes

Bespoke programmes for larger change

From a focused start to full transformation. We've delivered strategic asset management and ISO 19650 information management for whole-of-government departments, critical national infrastructure and major asset owners. Every programme can also be delivered in-house for your team.

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Essentials programme

For single teams and smaller organisations getting started.

From £15,000

  • Standards awareness and diagnostic
  • Gap assessment against ISO 55001 and the GFMAM Landscape
  • A strategic asset management roadmap
  • SAMP starter and clear next steps
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Acceleration programme

For departments and larger authorities scaling up.

From £75,000

  • Everything in Essentials, plus:
  • Full SAMP and long-term investment plan
  • Criticality assessment and asset management data and information strategy
  • Competence uplift (ISO 55012)
  • 6 to 12 months embedding support
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Transformation programme

For large organisations, national mission-critical infrastructure and whole-of-government.

From £500,000

  • ISO 55000 and ISO 19650 principles embedded at scale
  • Resilience and climate adaptation built into the SAMP
  • A virtually embedded team of up to 12 advisors
  • Your fractional Head of Strategic Asset Management
  • Multi-year programme and whole-life decision-making frameworks
  • Board and executive advisory

Every engagement is tailored. Figures are indicative starting points. Talk to us about scope, volume and whole-of-government licensing.

Free Awareness Session · 60 minutes

Start with the free Awareness Session

The ISO 55000 series and strategic asset management, live on Thursday 19 November at 9:30am or 3:30pm London, with the recording for every registrant.

  • Part 1: Asset management and value
  • Part 2: From objectives to a SAMP
  • Part 3: Asset information and data-led decisions
  • Part 4: Your next steps and live Q&A
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Strategic leadership and mentorship

We understand the client side, because we started there

Our origins are in end-client organisations that own and operate assets. We know what it's like to set the requirements, live with the results and answer for the outcomes. Today we work across the full supply chain: clients, designers, contractors, operators and their technology partners.

That means we can offer strategic leadership as well as expertise: guiding your leadership team, mentoring your sponsors and information leads, and staying alongside you until the change is owned by your own people.

How we lead and mentor

  • Strategic leadership for information and asset management programmes
  • Mentoring for senior sponsors and information, GIS and asset leads
  • An honest view from people who have sat on the client side
  • Support across the whole supply chain, from requirements to operation
Competence first

Competent people make asset management work

Standards and systems only deliver value when competent professionals apply them. Awareness training gives everyone a shared starting point; competence is built and demonstrated over time.

COMPETENCE

Competence

An individual's proven ability to apply knowledge and skills, shown with evidence.

CAPABILITY

Capability

What your organisation can do: competent people, clear processes and enabling technologies working together.

CAPACITY

Capacity

Having enough of that capability, when and where you need it.

Training partners

Training delivered with and for leading organisations

We have designed and delivered training with professional bodies, standards organisations and technology partners, and for many private organisations, central government and international institutions.

BSIICE TrainingCIOBRICSEsri UKBentley SystemsSynergie TrainingSymmons Madge AssociatesDigital Node

Contact us

Talk to us about courses and support services

Tell us about your organisation, your assets and what you'd like to achieve. An advisor will reply within two working days.

Looking for the free Awareness Session instead? Book your place here.

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