Asset Management

This subject is not offered in 2012.

Either of the subjects below or an equivalent.

OR

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.
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Topics covered include:

• advanced life cycle based property asset management;
• economic modelling;
• asset management optimisation;
• functional and economic performance;
• standards;
• obsolescence;
• condition assessment;
• maintenance and refurbishment implications;
• market and income issues;
• property finance, accounting and taxation issues;
• risk analysis;
• public and private sector guidelines.

At the conclusion of the subject students should be able to:

• Understand more complex asset management issues in the areas noted above;
• Undertake more comprehensive research and analysis practices in the financial and strategic aspects of asset management; and
• Undertake quantitative analysis of more complex assets and whole buildings.

• Three major individual assignments totalling 6,500 words as a staged analysis of a building asset (100%).

Reading lists and references will be provided throughout the semester.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Analytical skills – advanced analysis of life-cycle approaches to property.
• Communication skills -an enhanced ability to communicate complex property issues through written presentations.
• Problem solving skills – an increased body of knowledge associated with complex existing property assets.