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Building and Maintenance


Asset Services provides professional, technical and administrative input to maintain equity and consistency of dwelling standards and solutions.

Asset Services ensures Territory Housing assets are designed and constructed to predetermined standards and are maintained efficiently taking into account tenant needs, quality and cost efficiencies to achieve optimum performance. In addition, Asset Services also provides effective and practical leadership on longer term strategic planning of stock requirements to realise cost effective housing management and optimising repair and/or replacement decisions on housing stock.

Capital Works

The Asset Services Branch of Territory Housing provides input into the planning of the capital works programs in order to positively affect the alignment of the property portfolio to identified housing needs and to meet other government objectives. It is responsible for the delivery of the Cabinet approved programs and associated reporting functions. The program includes Minor New Works, New Construction, Upgrades and Urban Renewals.

Maintenance

Asset Services provides support to the Regional Offices who manage the Repairs and Maintenance Program which enables public and other Government housing assets to be maintained to the appropriate standards to service the needs of our tenants. This is achieved by the development of works programs, management of contracted services and maintenance practices, ensuring technical standards are achieved.

Asset Services also maintain and control the housing asset register in respect of public and government employee housing. The purpose is to ensure an accurate, valid and reliable record of the assets.

Asset Services commissioned the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment and managed the successful development of a condition based assessment and amenity data base. HOMES is web based and is utilised to accurately determine the portfolio's amenities and maintenance liabilities. It assists in forward planning to determine that the portfolio is suitable to service client's housing needs and achieve optimum performance from the assets.

Territory Housing has developed a Maintenance Manual to assist staff and tenants to correctly identify any repairs or maintenance, which needs to be carried out.