Interactive Workshop facilitated by Iain Cranston & Rowan Holyer
Local governments are facing increasingly difficult infrastructure investment decisions. Aging assets, funding constraints, and rising service expectations are placing heavy demands, but organizations are working with incomplete asset data. Collecting better asset data is certainly important, but in the short-term communities face a practical question: how do we make better decisions with the information we already have available?
This interactive workshop introduces participants to the foundations of leveraging asset data to support infrastructure planning and decision making. Designed for communities with limited staff capacity and imperfect data, the session focuses on practical steps rather than idealized outcomes. The workshop will include facilitated discussion, real world examples from communities across North America, and hands on guidance. Participants will leave with access to a simple Excel based asset inventory tool they can use as a starting point for organizing data and supporting internal conversations.
This session is designed to help communities move from reactive decision making toward clearer, more confident infrastructure planning.