Asset management and Operations

At Arup, we believe that an effective, long-term asset management strategy drives operational improvement. Assets can be inventoried and their status recorded, but their true value is always as part of the key steps a business takes to create value for their customers as part of their wider, dynamic system of people, processes, environments, and business priorities.

To respond to this complexity, we have developed a truly integrated approach that unifies these tasks and outcomes, to help organizations across the industrial and transportation sectors run better, more efficient, and lower-cost services.

Across the global economy, billions are spent annually on the management, repair, or renewal of assets, with too little integration and coordination in the way facilities or assets need to perform and what this means for the quality and reliability of the end-user experience. Traditionally, this has occurred when asset management and operations are approached in a siloed way, reflecting internal administrative arrangements and responsibilities—left and right hands acting in well-intentioned but often uncoordinated ways.

Our asset management and operations teams work differently, embedding a vision and strategy that tangibly connects the status and performance of assets to a definition of continuous operational success. We bring together human experience, organizational understanding, and the latest digital tools and platforms.

For our transportation clients across rail, highways, and aviation, our work focuses on the intimate connection between asset performance, service excellence, and commercial returns. The goal is to create a fundamental connection between management data and commercial improvement, ultimately giving business leaders greater confidence about when, where, and what to invest in.