At Farrer, the requirements of asset and critical infrastructure management are fully understood and the company is well positioned to provide asset optimisation based on expert judgement and statistical data applications.  This is linked with field data collection and management, project management and engineering design solutions for environmental challenges across society.

Farrer recovers data of the actual performance of infrastructure assets and links this information with other data on well structured IT platforms to give real time and informed business guidance. Farrer has strategic relationships with technology providers to recover information such as MIRA, a fast rate ground penetrating radar application. Farrer assesses the location, condition, value and serviceability of existing assets and helps engineer and develop viable, affordable and sustainable business plans for improvements to society.

The addition of Engineering Design to Farrer’s skill portfolio, as resource long nurtured by its sister company Biwater Treatment and now shared centrally, enables it to deliver a complete service offering from clients, all delivered ‘in-house’. The added value of Engineering Design to the asset location, mapping and analysis skills already within Farrer means that a true strategy to ‘optimise’ client asset can be delivered with the capability to provide strategy, design, visualisation, build and long term operation and management.

As Farrer moves forward and Asset Management becomes embedded in modern business decisions it is more than likely to be the platform from which an asset valuation is determined for the built environment and this in turn will have an impact on future funding strategies.

Farrer is well placed with people and processes for managing assets in the UK and elsewhere in economies overseas.