Upcoming

The Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering invites you to attaend the industrial workshop entitled

Why Asset Management shouldn’t work in Qatar , but it does!

Monday, December 11, 2019

ABSTRACT

Why Asset Management should not work in Qatar, but it does!
The key task within asset management is to prioritise investment and to develop acceptable levels of risk, however when access to capital is not really a problem and one works in a risk adverse environment what is the true challenge and why bother.

SPEAKERS

Steve Bird has worked in the Asset Management Field for 40 years in various sectors including Water and Waste Water, Air Traffic Control, Roads, Metro, Facility Management, Chemical, Power Transmission and Airports.

Having started his professional life as a Maintainer, and having been an Asset Manager for a number of years and he is now a consultant advising on AM implementation in the Middle East. He has also worked in the UK, across the GCC, and Africa

Having been involved with the initial generation of PAS55 (the first Asset Management standard ) and developing the assessment/certification methodology for the UK Institute of Asset Management, he has most recently been involved in writing a SSG and involved with ISO55001 development.

He also assessed companies against both standards (PAS55 and ISO55001) and is now undertake progression assessments to journey towards certification.

SCHEDULE

6:15 PM - 6:30 PM : Registration

6:30 PM - 7:15 PM : Topic Presentation

7:15 PM - 7:30 PM : Quesions and Answers Session

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM : Coffee and Snacks

LOCATION

Building B09 Room F106 at the College of Engineering at Qatar University.

Please check the Map.

REGISTRATION

Please click here to complete the registration form. 

For inquiries, please contact the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at civil@qu.edu.qa