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May 2014

The role of the

Asset Standards Authority

Toby Horstead

Principal Manager,

Network and Asset Strategy

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Outline

• What and who is the ASA

• TfNSW Rail Assets

• ASA Activities

• Whole of Life, Assurance and Configuration

• Industry Engagement

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What is the ASA?

• ASA is an independent body within TfNSW

• Design authority for defined transport assets

• Technical authority for Asset Management

• Currently heavy rail - metropolitan, country and

North West Rail Link

• Working to expand coverage into Light Rail and

Ferry assets

• Dual reporting - DDG TPD and Secretary TfNSW

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ASA within TfNSW

David Stewart

Secretary

Toby Horstead

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NSW Transport Reform (Rail)

• 1 July 2013: new arrangements went live.

• RailCorp was restructured:– Sydney Trains and NSW Trains as operator maintainers.

– Residual RailCorp asset owner (subject to change).

• TfNSW as planner, procurer and Design Authority for assets

• ASA established to exercise Design Authority over all TfNSW heavy rail assets

• ASA to grant Authorised Engineering Organisation (AEO) status

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Who is in the ASA?

A balance recruitment from Government and Industry

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Who is in the ASA?

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Role of ASA

• Accountability for all rail engineering standards

• Assuring companies providing asset services have

quality processes

• Setting requirements for asset information and

reporting on asset integrity

• Promote whole of life view, support asset planning

• Maintaining configuration control of rail network

• Ensuring long term skills and knowledge are

developed and maintained

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Role of ASA

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Role of ASA

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Rail asset highlightsMetro

2,008 electric and diesel

fleet cars

1,604 km (approx) main

line track

Approx 83 route km of

tunnels

Approx 1,148 bridge

structures

376 stations (includes

country and Hunter line

stations)

92 traction sub-stations

and 68 sectioning huts

3,957 signals 6,831 track circuits

2,042 km optic fibre 2,500 km copper cable More than 1,900 turnout

assets

Country rail

2,386 km track 1312 level crossings

(300 active)

984 bridge structures

NWRL

36 km track (incl. 13km

ECRL)

8 stations with platform

screen doors

30 km tunnels (15km

twin)

4 km viaduct

20 mass transit trains –

Phase1

SWRL

11.4 km track 2 stations

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ASA Activities

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A new procurement

paradigm

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Authorisation update

• Two types of authorisation– Project and Direct

• Authorisations issued to date

– 15 project

– 5 organisational

• Authorisations in progress

– 15 project

– 6 organisational

• 103 organisations expressing interest

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AEO status - Note

• AEO status does NOT cut across legislative and

regulatory boundaries

• AEO status does not guarantee work – normal

procurement/tendering processes apply

• AEO status does not take away from the normal

project management activities between Principal

and Contractor relating to the management of

scope and time

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Standards activities

• 1 Jul 13 - began with identified

RailCorp standards (more than

1,400 standards)

• Program developed to review

standards

• Website access to suit industry

• Close engagement with industry

• Opportunity to open up market

to bigger competition and

supply options eg rolling stock

Review or create

new Standard

Existing Internal

Standard

(where available)

New or altered

requirements

International

Standard

Suitable

National

Standard

Suitable

Publish Standard,

Reference and

Context Material

Process Complete

Create Set of

Requirements

No

Yes Yes

Standards

Creation Process

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Working with RISSB

Rail Standards

• Working in concert with RISSB to align standard

development plans and ensure greatest benefit

and efficiencies

• Focusing on developing performance based

standards across the full asset life cycle

• ASA utilise peer review and consultation that

supports RISSB processes

• ASA performance based standards may be used

as draft for developing a national standard

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Assurance through the whole

asset lifecycle

• Positive declaration to give confidence, a promise

• Confidence or certainty in one’s abilities

• Story of what has been done to ensure right

asset/outcome is delivered

• Argument with evidence

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Whole of Life - consider

• Capital – install the latest and greatest?

• Integration – available time to build, system adjustment, compatibility

• Maintenance – has xing been protected, refurbish instead of renew

• But first, Operation – is the xover really needed, what is the criticality?

Facing TO

on a diamond Xover

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Configuration governance

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Do not forget Disposal

First of 24 Turnouts being removed at Ashfield June 2013

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Working with Industry

• ASA here to collaborate with industry

• AEO’s:

– required to compete for work through the TfNSW

procurement process.

– Non-AEO’s are still able to provide engineering

services for TfNSW; however, these engineering

services need to be assured by an AEO.

• Work always with a whole of life view

• Provide TfNSW with safe and assured solutions

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Industry engagement

Industry

Briefings

Round Tables

Assurance Asset Management

Lifecycle

Intervention &

Assurance

Standards

Management –

Performance

Approach, Type

Approvals &

Concessions

Challenging

Standards

AEO Progress &

ASA/Industry

Reform Update

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Technical Forums, Standards working groups and Technical

Committees are held every month throughout the year – look out for

expressions of interest requests

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The customer is at the

centre of everything we do