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ADAC – NEW CHAIR STRATEGIC REFERENCE GROUP
Mark Lamont Director, Information & Resources
We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Chair for the ADAC Strategic Reference Group (SRG), Debra Wright from City of Gold Coast. Debra has a wealth of experience in asset management and has been involved with the ADAC Strategic Reference Group (SRG) and Technical Reference Group (TRG) for many years. The ADAC Consortium continues to expand and strengthen as the schema is adopted by more councils and utilities across Australia. The outbreak of COVID in NSW earlier in 2021 prevented us from providing the assistance offered to councils which had recently adopted ADAC but that is now back on track. While ADAC developed in Queensland, NSW is embracing the ADAC framework as word spreads about the time and resource savings that follow from adoption and joining the
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Consortium. Tweed Heads and Port Macquarie-Hasting have been joined by a second wave of NSW councils including Shellharbour, Wollondilly, Queanbeyan-Palerang and Ballina with Nambucca Heads to receive its introductory session as soon as borders reopen. Once the schema and the internal processes surrounding it are adopted, consistency and accuracy arise with asset data and the benefits become more pronounced when neighbouring councils or entities join. Providers of data quickly appreciate how much more efficient it is when councils are all operating the same system with the same expectations across council borders and utilities. ADAC benefits all stakeholders from suppliers of data, the developers of the tools to process that data, and the organisations which are the end-users and custodians of the data. ADAC provides a proven way to better asset registration, valuation, maintenance, and forward planning. The Consortium offers an opportunity for its members to contribute at all levels on any Group including the SRG which determines the future direction of ADAC, and carefully balances the competing needs of the Scheme ie consolidation and expansion. The SRG currently has representatives from six
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members who receive reports from the TRG and make decisions in the best interests of the Consortium and all its members. The TRG is divided into seven Communities of Practice (CoPs) which focus on the different ADAC asset classes. The structure of the consortium is represented below: Strategic Reference Group Technical Reference Group Communities of Practice Buildings Cadastre Electrical/ Telecommunications Open Spaces Stormwater Transport Water and Sewerage Consortium Members – Councils and Utilities These Groups continue to develop the ADAC schema to best serve the needs of its members, with common goals that benefit their individual organisations and the collective with ADAC streamlining processes for the recording, submission and storage of as-constructed data from the field to GIS and other asset management databases.
