City of Stirling Buildings Asset Managment Plan 2018 - 2028

5.2.1 Operations and maintenance strategies The City will operate and maintain assets to provide the defined level of service to approved budgets in

Asset hierarchy Building hierarchy is used to guide maintenance and capital project decisions by grouping buildings by similar levels of importance and priority. The City considers usage (availability and occupancy), community impact (impact on the community if the building is not available), service impact (the ease of arranging alternative facilities if necessary) and financial impact (costs to the City if the building is not available) when allocating building hierarchy. The City’s building hierarchy consists of a 1 to 5 building ranking, which at a minimum requires the buildings to be safe and fit for purpose. These rankings provide a priority for capital works, where a ranking 1 will have the highest priority and ranking 5 the lowest. The building hierarchy is shown in Table 5.2.1.

• Reporting ‘high’ and ‘extreme’ risks and residual risks after treatment to management and Council • Reviewing current and required skills base and implementing workforce training and development to meet required operations and maintenance needs • Reviewing asset use to identify under-used assets and appropriate remedies, and over-used assets hierarchy of critical assets and required operations and maintenance activities • Developing and regularly reviewing appropriate emergency response capability • Reviewing management of operations and maintenance activities to ensure best value for the resources used. and customer demand management options • Maintaining a current

the most cost-efficient manner. The operation and maintenance activities include:

• Scheduling operations activities to deliver the defined level of service in the most efficient manner • Undertaking maintenance activities through a planned maintenance system to reduce maintenance costs and improve maintenance outcomes • Undertaking cost-benefit analysis to determine the most cost- effective split between planned and unplanned maintenance activities (50–70 per cent planned desirable as measured by cost) • Maintaining a current infrastructure risk register for assets and presenting service risks associated with providing services from infrastructure assets to management and Council

Hierarchy

Objective

Building ranking 1-4

Safe and fit for purpose

Building ranking 5 (vacant and demolition-approved)

Safe

Table 5.2.1 Building hierarchy

Building hierarchy is important in prioritising scarce resources. In developing a building hierarchy, the factors that need to be taken into account include building function, level of use, strategic importance to the operation of the City’s services and building ownership. Higher-ranked buildings are considered to be of greater significance and therefore attract higher levels of service to maintain them in an appropriate condition.

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