Asset manager
Improving Infrastructure Delivery: Project Initiation Routemap, Handbook, Version 2 June 2016, published by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, states: ‘The asset manager is the organisation (or parts of ) that is responsible for day-to-day operations and maintenance of the asset. The asset manager may be a part of the sponsor or client organisations or a separate entity. Similarly the operator and maintainer of the assets might be separate entities. Asset management is the coordinated activity of organisations to realise value from their assets.’
Project Routemap, Setting up projects for success, Organisational Design & Development, UK Module, published by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority in 2021, states: ‘In the context of Routemap, the asset manager is the organisation (or parts of) responsible for day-today operations and maintenance of the asset. The asset manager may be a part of the sponsor or client organisations, or a separate entity. Similarly, the operator and maintainer of the assets may be separate entities.’
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