The NSW Department of Justice is responsible for enacting the law across the entire state to provide a safe and just NSW. Corrective services, jails, courts, emergency services, and police departments all fall under its responsibility. In addition, it feeds into public policy by advising government policy, implementing crime-reduction programs, and supporting victims and monitoring offenders.
Minimal Visibility of Transparency
However, the Department didn’t have a central management system for its floor-plans and locations, meaning that answering questions about the $4.5 billion asset portfolio was inefficient, planning was nearly impossible, and the department had no visibility over what it owned or how much it needed to spend to keep its facilities running. The assets it owned were also extremely diverse and complex, and run by different business clusters. The Department needed to dissolve the silos that blocked a holistic view of their asset situation.
Due to the sensitive nature of this work, their buildings and assets are sometimes highly secure, restricted, or dangerous, which presents a challenge when detailed information about the condition, maintenance, and repairability is needed. The Department needed a record of its asset portfolio, and the condition that it was in within three months to meet planning deadlines.
Correctional Complex
Rapid Deployment
We quickly trained and organised teams to collect the data from high-security areas, like active courts, jails, and corrective centres. All in all, we covered a million square metres of property in three months. To make data gathering easier in future, we also tagged assets using RFID tags. All that data was uploaded to our lifecycle planning platform, which listed details like capital expenditure, operational expenditure and maintenance liability.
This allowed the Department of Justice to achieve data currency by quantifying all its asset data in the state and uploading it to our lifecycle platform, meaning the Department has improved transparency across all parts of their courts, correction centres, and buildings.
Turning Data into Value
The Department has since begun incorporating cost, risk, and performance data into their operational and capital expenditure contracts, giving them greater insight into its annual capital and maintenance liability. It can now re-negotiate contracts for upkeep across their portfolio, based on an accurate model from the intelligence provided by the AssetFuture platform.
By accurately collecting data in dangerous and sensitive areas, then keeping that data secure while using it to model and guide the future, The Department of Justice is transitioning from a reactive, defective maintenance model to a proactive, strategic model of asset management, meaning better results for the Department and the taxpayers of the state.