Realise the Full Potential of Your Asset Investment Planning

Helping you make smarter asset investment decisions

We specialize in making asset investment planning easier and more effective. With over 30 years of experience, we offer a range of services designed to help you achieve your strategic goals and deliver the best value.

Are you struggling with balancing high-level objectives and numerous asset investment plans?

Do you find it challenging to manage resources, satisfy stakeholders, and ensure your plans stand up to scrutiny?

We understand these challenges and are here to help you navigate them.

We can help you deliver...

Project,
evaluations & justifications

We help you
evaluate and justify project investments, ensuring your portfolio delivers maximum value.

Whole
portfolio
optimization

Our tools and methods enable you to optimise your entire portfolio, to consider all benefits, risks, and business impacts.

Optimal
timing for
Asset Projects

We assist in determining the best timing for asset replacements, upgrades, or life extension projects.

Transparency, consensus,
& assurance

We foster transparency and build consensus to determine what is worth doing, when, and why.

Whole
Life Cycle
management

Ensuring that every stage of an asset’s life cycle is optimised, from initial planning to end-of-life decisions.

Real, Large Financial Benefits

Our Asset Investment planning process delivers a rapid return on investment; all implementations of this approach have been ‘self-funding’ within the first 6 months.

Our decision-making framework, optimization processes, and modular decision support tools apply to all asset types, industrial sectors, data, and organizational maturities. They blend advanced technology with common sense, human psychology, and rigorous business disciplines.

When you are facing real world constraints, we can help you evaluate and quantify the business case for your strategies, including risk and ‘intangibles’.

Our proven and trusted Decision Support Tools enable you to explore the costs, risks, and performance implications of different options and scenarios.

Our Services

With over 30 years of experience and leading-edge technologies, The Woodhouse Partnership can help you quantify, justify, and optimise the business case for your strategies, plans, and projects within Asset Investment Planning.

Our methodologies ensure that your asset investment plans are aligned with your strategic goals and deliver the best value. Our award-winning SALVO methodology combines process rigour with advanced modelling and analytics. 

Widely proven in many industries, these enable you to explore, the costs, risks, and performance implications of different asset investment plans, options, and scenarios. This can be within an individual project level or a whole investment portfolio.

Find out more below.

To truly optimise the full potential of your asset investment planning, it is essential to adopt a whole life management approach. This means making strategic decisions that consider the entire lifecycle of your assets, from initial investment to end-of-life. By doing so, you can ensure that your asset investment plans deliver sustainable value, minimise risks, and enhance performance over the long term.

Translating complex information to ALL levels within your business

We understand that managing physical assets is a complex and a technical subject. Our team is skilled and experienced in communicating effectively with all areas of a business’s organisation. We will translate complex technical information into meaningful insights that are relevant to each stakeholder, ensuring that companies with asset-intensive operations can make informed decisions.

Our expertise in managing physical assets at different stages of their lifecycle and implementing effective strategies ensures that business-critical assets are optimized for performance and reliability. We assist in creating justification for programs to support physical assets and help organisations navigate the strategies and options available to them.

Why choose us?

We combine advanced technology with common sense, human psychology, and rigorous business disciplines to deliver exceptional results. Our award-winning SALVO methodology ensures alignment between human factors, process disciplines, and advanced technology.

ISO 55001:2024 Compliance
We align our services with ISO 55001:2024 standards, ensuring that your asset management practices meet international benchmarks for excellence and reliability.
Sustainability and ESG Considerations
As part of the RSK Group, we offer a wide network of capabilities in sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) through our affiliated companies. Our services help you meet ESG targets, ensuring that your asset management practices are not only efficient but also responsible and sustainable.

Asset Investment Planning results

We can help

With our Asset Investment Planning services we can help you deliver a systematic, bespoke framework and process allowing you to

  • gradually roll out training programmes and decision-support tools to promote seamless adoption with our Phased Introduction of Key Elements
  • Tailor Implementation Plans to local priorities, capabilities, and cultural considerations, ensuring alignment with organisational needs.
  • Embed improvements into your organisation’s management systems by consolidating authorities, workflows, and business processes, ensuring long-term sustainability
  • Develop your staff with ongoing coaching and support while establishing clear value criteria across your organisational risk, cost, and performance domains.
  • Implement robust systems for measuring benefits, gathering feedback, and reinforcing competencies, ensuring improvements remain effective and adaptive over time.

For more information, or to discuss your organization’s requirements with one of our asset investment experts, please contact us.

Strategic Planning (SAMP)

Woodhouse can help you to quantify the business case for your strategies, plans and projects. Enabling you to explore the costs, risks and performance implications of different options.

implementation Support

Woodhouse offers extensive first-hand, multidisciplined experience in putting the pieces together and building a robust, coordinated and personalised way forward.

Optimized Decision-making

Crucial decisions need to be made, quickly and in the face of great uncertainty. Our speciality is Decision-making optimization; we offer real-time, online support, tools and processes

Need help or advice? Get in touch with our award-winning team

Joe MacEnri

Joe MacEnri is a chartered engineer and ACCA qualified accountant who has worked in the electricity industry and asset management fields for over 35 years. He has many years of experience in the areas of techno-economic and investment analysis in areas such as capital plans and as well as reliability-based investment analysis using Monte Carlo simulations. He has worked with the multinational plastic manufacturer Sabic in their annual capital planning, training staff in the SALVO process and tools, facilitating workshops on individual investment studies, and working with sites to develop their annual constraints optimized capital plans using the AI powered DST Strategic AM Planning module as well as aggregated optimized multi-site regional plans.

Pedro Siblesz

With over 32 years of Asset Management, Reliability and, Mechanical Engineering experience in leadership, technical, and operational roles in Oil & Gas, and the Petrochemical industry. Pedro brings a proven track record of success in developing and implementing asset management processes and tools, to facilitate communication between engineers and managers, while establishing a direct connection between business objectives and frontline engineering and operational actions, with strong considerations of Fit for Purpose and Life Cycle cost factors.
Pedro is a strong advocate and Change Agent for cross-functional collaboration between departments orientated to achieve alignment of objectives for the development of efficient and effective asset management solutions.  Pedro heads up our Australiasia business unit. 

Victoria Hogg BEng(Hons) MSc PhD FIEAust CPEng EngExec NER

Victoria is a Principal Consultant & our Product Manager for the SALVO Decision-Making Framework. 

She has over 20 years’ asset management experience, across transport, energy and defence sectors and is a specialist in asset management decision-making and risk management.

With plenty of hands-on experience developing optimized, risk-based asset maintenance and renewal strategies, and deploying these to develop multi-year investment plans, her industry positions include the Head of Asset Management (Electrical Utility), Manager Network Risk & Performance (Electrical Utility), Associated Director, Safety and Engineering Systems (Government Transport Agency), Team Leader, Asset & Risk Management Systems (Electrical Utility), Team Leader, Structural Safety, Risk & Reliability (Government Highways Agency)

Patrick Bossert

Patrick is a specialist in data-enabled business transformation design and executive-level delivery governance to enable asset- and workforce-intensive organizations to deliver better customer and operational outcomes. He has 30 years of experience in the industry, working at the executive and board levels with critical national infrastructure organizations to shape and lead major value-realization programs with data and digital enablers at their core.

His core skills include Data strategy, Transformation design, Strategic roadmap development, Transformation governance and assurance, Transformation leadership, Business data services operating model design, Data skills and leadership development, and Leadership coaching, and mentoring.
Patrick is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Susan Steyn

Susan Steyn is a seasoned expert with over 30 years of experience in Management, Operations, Business Development, and Supply Chain across diverse industries. Her core focus lies in spare parts management and inventory optimization. Throughout her career, Susan has held key leadership roles in multinational companies such as GE, Dow, Roche, Bayer, Lloyds Register, and Woodhouse Partnership.

With a strong background in strategic leadership, P&L management, and lean manufacturing, Susan has consistently driven business turnarounds and growth. She excels in international global business management and has a proven track record of expanding market presence and building strong client relationships.

As a Six Sigma Black Belt and PMP certified professional, Susan is adept at implementing process improvements and managing complex projects. Her expertise in data analysis, project management, and ERP systems ensures effective spare part management and optimal inventory levels.

Susan’s contributions to various companies include revenue growth, cost reduction, successful software launches, and the establishment of strategic alliances. Her commitment to diversity and inclusion, coupled with her leadership in team building and mentorship, have created a culture of excellence in every organization she has worked with.

Overall, Susan Steyn is a results-oriented leader with a passion for leveraging data-driven decision-making and innovative strategies to optimize spare parts management, reduce downtime risks, and enhance profitability in any business environment.

José Luis Perdomo R

José Luis cuenta con una experiencia exitosa en multi-industrias públicas y privadas, donde desempeñó cargos gerenciales, líder de aplicación técnica especializada, puestos operativos y en mantenimiento, así como en áreas de consultoría sustentando nivel operativo, táctico y estratégico.

Ha formado parte de proyectos de mejoramiento de gestión de activos, confiabilidad operacional, integridad y mantenimiento en Latinoamérica en diferentes empresas creando valor al negocio con resultados técnicos y económicos importantes.

Facilitador e instructor acreditado en temas relacionados con la gestión de activos, mejores prácticas, metodologías de administración gerencial y técnicas especializadas.

Robinson Medina

Mechanical Engineer with 31 years of experience. Specialist in implementation processes of activities
associated with Asset Management under the ISO 55001 approach, Implementation of diagnostic
programs and audits of management systems, Specialist in applying reliability methodologies such as
Reliability-Centered Maintenance, risk-based inspection, Cause Analysis Root, Life Cycle Cost Analysis,
Condition Based Maintenance, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Mechanical Integrity among others.
He has been an Equipment Mechanical Integrity Engineer, an experienced user of traditional NonDestructive Testing such as Ultrasound, Infrared Thermography, Superficial Techniques, Industrial
Radiography.
He has led and participated in countless applications in the field of reliability and condition monitoring,
with special emphasis on the generation and execution of policies and maintenance plans aimed at
achieving the “minimum total business impact” guaranteeing Safety, Hygiene and Environment
standards.

Damien Carter

Over his 28 plus year span in the industrial sectors with working technical backgrounds in Project & Construction Management, Asset Operations and Maintenance Reliability Management, and being certified in various courses of study; Damien has gained the knowledge and experience and has had proven successes throughout his tenure in the Oil, Gas, Petro-Chemical and Construction sectors. Establishing his-self in the various sectors, Damien’s first experience and success started in the Construction Sector in estimating engineering. This was the stepping stone for Damien and has paved the way for his passion and continued success in supporting People, Process, and Systems in an organization.

Damien has held positions in local, international and multi-national corporations and comes from a working background in the fields of environmental, operations, project and construction management, operations maintenance and reliability management, planning, supervisory management, and has proven his abilities to succeed in each field.

Richard Ardolino

Rich was an Engineer and Project Manager professional at the New York Power Authority for over 30-years. In addition to being the first Project Manager for the Niagara Project Upgrade, Rich rose to be the Vice President of Engineering having started in Operations Engineering decades earlier. Rich went on to be Vice President, Transmission and Substation at AECOM responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in design and construction. Rich joined Woodhouse Partnership, North America and participates in aligning organization towards ISO 55000 and many reliability studies supporting DST.

Aleck Santamaría De La Cruz

Executive in Operational Excellence, Asset Management and Best Practices in Projects, Operations and Maintenance in the Energy and Industrial Sector.
Consultant, Instructor and International Lecturer on issues related to project management (risk management), operational reliability, strategic management of operations, maintenance, Asset Management in the energy sector (ISO 55001) and Applied Data Analytics.
PMP, CMRP, IAM and CAMA certifications, being recognized by the SMRP in 2019 as CMRP of the Year https://smrp.org/2019-CMRP-Winners.

George Galambos

George has over twenty-five years of experience as a consulting engineer providing design, planning, program and project management, and strategic asset management services for asset-intensive organizations in the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East. His primary focus has been in the public infrastructure sector; as a result, he has intimate knowledge of the assets, processes, and resources necessary to deliver and sustain safe, reliable services to the customers of public asset-owning organizations.

George has assisted organizations with the development of PAS 55, ISO 55000, and GFMAM AM Landscape aligned asset management systems (AMS), has performed gap analyses of their AMS against industry standards and best practices, and has guided them through the creation of strategic asset management plans (SAMPs), asset management plans (AMPs), AM policy and supporting documents. He has undertaken asset risk modelling to ascertain organizations’ capability to sustain their desired levels of service. George has performed asset health-informed lifecycle cost modelling and forecasting capital and operational expenditures over near and long-term planning horizons.

John Woodhouse

With 30 years’ experience in utilities, oil & gas, transport and other sectors, John is one of the most widely known experts in integrated asset management projects for some of the largest companies in the world.

John is a Founder and Life Fellow of the IAM; he has written 4 books, chaired the development of BSI PAS55 and represents the UK on the ISO55000 committee.

He also led the international MACRO and SALVO collaboration projects in optimised asset management decision-making.

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