David Manase

• Glasgow Caledonian University

Purpose Literature reveals that local authorities in Scotland are required under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 to undertake housing need and demand assessment. Local authorities are required to ensure that their local housing strategies are evidenced with an assessment of housing need and demand. The housing needs and demand assessment (HNDA) fra...

This chapter presents the definition, aims and purpose of an asset management plan (AMP). The AMP is the blueprint for the asset management planning process. Regardless of the differences in the composition of AMP documents, there is universal agreement that there are certain key asset management planning areas that should be included in any well-p...

This chapter reviews the processes associated with the strategic planning element of asset management. The strategic planning process comprises a number of recognised sequences of activities taken in a very mechanistic fashion. The activities include identifying the gap or levels of service to be realised, putting in place enablers for asset manage...

This chapter shows how the process of asset management in the United Kingdom (UK) and internationally is practised. The application of the theoretical process of asset management by public sectors in the UK and elsewhere has been aided by various asset management guidelines. The chapter evaluates the guidelines that have been issued by central gove...

This chapter gives an overview of the various theories and practices embedded in organisational management theory. Within the organisational management framework, there are various theories that seek to explain how the behavioural influences operate and how they can be channelled to positively impact on organisational performance. These theories ar...

This chapter examines the second element of asset management, namely asset management planning. The examination includes defining the concept and identifying the process elements that comprise it. The processes associated with asset management planning are identified as including formulation of asset management policy and strategy development; putt...

This chapter reviews the literature on property asset management in the public sector by focusing on three areas. It first explains the concept of asset management. Second, literature is reviewed to highlight the structure of operational property assets in the public sector in the United Kingdom (UK). Third, the evolution of asset management is rev...

Procurement of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) is underpinned by the project's potential to deliver Value for Money (VfM) through risk transfer to the private sector and the existence of enabling environments. In Malawi, PPP is a relatively new concept confined to the rail services, Information Technology and Airline sectors. Its use is quite li...

The development and provision of road infrastructure in Nigeria has primarily been through the traditional forms of procurement strategies by the federal, state and local governments through budgetary allocations and door-financed loans and grants this thereby leaves the Nigerian road sector in a precarious situation. In recent time, with the deman...

In many public sector organisations, there has been little or no adoption of a proactive asset management strategy. Where an extensive property portfolio exists, this can result in poor overall utilisation of the portfolio, exemplified by excessive vacant property or properties not being put to best use. In such situations there is a risk that the...

In many public sector organisations, there has been little or no adoption of a proactive asset management strategy. Where an extensive property portfolio exists, this can result in poor overall utilisation of the portfolio, exemplified by excessive vacant property or properties not being put to best use. In such situations there is a risk that the...

Abstract - The provision of road infrastructure in Nigeria has primarily been through the traditional procurement arrangement by Federal, State and Local Governments through budgetary allocations. Recently, with the increasing demand for road infrastructure coupled with the scarcity of public resources, Nigerian government have sought to involve th...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of operational property asset management in Scottish Councils and the extent to which this achieves best value. Appropriate criteria for evaluating asset management effectiveness include the effective use of capital resources, efficient and effective use of property assets, and improv...

The achievement of value for money has been paramount during the current economic climate. The reduction in investment into social housing projects has forced Housing Associations to further minimise waste and pursue the maximisation of value. The success of the continually endorsed utilisation of partnering arrangements to produce value for money...

Partnering has been implemented by many Housing Associations as the procurement arrangement to maximise value. There are two dominant forms of partnering being utilised, namely strategic and project partnering. The ethos of strategic partnering is long term collaborative working for a series of projects, as opposed to project partnering, based on s...

The successful implementation of an optimal health and safety management process in the UK construction industry has been impeded by the inadequate utilisation of information present in the construction environment. Consequently, this inability to adequately utilise construction environment information has contributed to the construction industry b...

It has now become increasingly noticeable that there has been an increasing trend towards the adoption of asset management by public bodies including local authorities. Since 2003 Scottish councils have been legally obliged to adopt asset management as the strategic framework for managing their property assets. The trend for increased adoption of a...

Housing Associations have a responsibility to provide well maintained and functional properties, therefore, must continually upgrade or build new properties to accommodate tenants. A recent report published by by Gibb and Leishman (2011) highlighted that Housing Association grants from the government for new build properties were likely to be drast...

Globalization and the 2009 financial crisis have spread around the world and no business sector has stayed untouched. While companies in some sectors have been forced to close down or lay off employees, the construction industry has not been an exception. Numerous construction companies in the UK construction industry have experienced a dramatic fa...

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the United Kingdom aims to achieve closer partnerships between the public and private sectors. It has been one of a range of policies the UK government has used to increase the involvement of the private sector in the provision of public services. It has been integral to the modernisation of public services a...

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive show that the UK construction industry has approximately 80 fatalities per year, making the construction industry one of the most dangerous industries when compared t...