19 Feb Louis Boshoff – CSAM CAMA CMRP PMP CP3P-F
Louis is an award winning, internationally recognised infrastructure asset management specialist. He is a Certified Senior Practitioner in Asset Management (CSAM), a Certified Asset Management Assessor(CAMA), a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), a registered Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Public Private Partnership Professional (CP3P-F). Louis holds a Master of Science degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a Graduate Diploma in Asset Management.
He is credited with authorship of the National Immovable Asset Maintenance Management Standard, the Maintenance Accounting Framework for Immovable Assets and the Maintenance Monitoring and Evaluation Protocol,and further edited the National Immovable Asset Maintenance Management Guidelines on behalf of the Department of Public Works and the Construction Industry Development Board. He was the lead developer for National Treasury’s Cities Infrastructure Delivery and Management System (CIDMS) Toolkit, a fully SANS 55001 compliant asset management for urban application. For this, Louis received the 2018 SAAMA Project Award. Louis was also the lead author of the COGTA Local Government Infrastructure Asset Management Guidelines, and a contributing author of the International Infrastructure Management Manual.
He regularly serves as an advisor on infrastructure management policy, investment and practice matters to the Office of the Presidency, the National Treasury, the Financial and Fiscal Commission, SALGA, the European Union, the Department of Public Works, the World Bank, the DBSA, the CIDB, the South African Cities Network, COGTA and the Department of Water and Sanitation. He also regularly leads complex, ground-breaking local government asset management projects.
Louis further lectures on urban infrastructure asset management to Master’s level students at the Civil Engineering Faculty of the University of Cape Town.
He was also the architect of the municipal services costing model for the FFC and SALGA. This model calculates the capital and operating costs of all municipal services for all municipalities, based on factors as settlement configuration, population dynamics, size and value of asset portfolios, and existing backlogs. Louis was also the chief architect of electronic asset management systems supporting capital investment planning, maintenance management, asset risk management and SANS 55001 asset management practices assessment that are commercially used and operational at various utilities and municipalities.