Asset Management Plan - Newcastle City Council

Lifecycle Option Appraisal6.0 Lifecycle Option AppraisalA lifecycle plan documents how different options are selected for closingidentified performance gaps, including identifying different treatment options.6.1 Performance GapsPerformance Gaps are a measure of the failures of an asset to meet thedemands of its construction, or the gap between the desired/target condition andthe actual condition. Failures are measured against individual demands. Forexample where an asset has grown obsolete and can no longer be efficientlymaintained, where a road fails within its design life due to the passage of heavyvehicles and requires substantial reconstruction, or where a number of footwaysrequire maintenance work but adequate funding is not available.6.2 Lifecycle PlanningThe highway services within Newcastle upon Tyne are organised into threedistinct activities comprising of Routine Maintenance, Planned Maintenance, andImprovement activities.Routine Maintenance is theregular ongoing day-to-day workthat comprises servicing ratherthan repair and is necessary tokeep assets operating, this doesnot cover the repair or renewal ofstructural elements orcomponents which have becomeunserviceable due to generalwear and tear or havedeteriorated for other reasons,but does include the day-to-dayreactive fault repairs undertakenon an adhoc basis.Planned Maintenance is therenewal/replacement workcomprised of major (programmed) work that does not increase the asset’sdesigned capacity, but restores, rehabilitates, replaces or renews an existingasset to its original capacity. (Maintaining a ‘Steady State’).Improvement activities can be described as Creation, Acquisition or Upgrading,which is major work that creates or obtains a new asset that did not previouslyexist, or works that upgrade or improve an asset beyond its existing designcapacity.The lifecycle plans document specific plans for how each phase of the assets lifeis managed (i.e. from creation to disposal) and in doing so recognise theinterdependency of the phases. It recognises how the investment in routine44