Three years of Asset Dynamics
Asset Dynamics was established in May 2022 with a clear purpose: to help New Zealand infrastructure organisations transform their asset management and data and information management capabilities by applying leading global practices in a local context. Three years on, we are proud of what the team has built and grateful to the clients, collaborators, and sector colleagues who have been part of the journey.
Who we have worked with
In our first three years we have supported close to thirty organisations across New Zealand's infrastructure sector. While our roots are in electricity distribution, where we have deep experience across regulatory, strategic, and operational asset management, we have deliberately broadened our reach. Engagements have now spanned transport, gas transmission and distribution, ports, local government, housing, and aviation — reflecting both the breadth of asset management as a discipline and the growing recognition across sectors that strategic asset management capability is essential.
Our work has addressed each of the seven Subject Areas of the GFMAM Asset Management Landscape, from strategy and planning through to risk, data and information, and organisational capability development.
Developing new capability: DataFrame
One of the significant milestones of our first three years has been the development and launch of DataFrame, Asset Dynamics' proprietary data health monitoring platform. DataFrame addresses a challenge that is common across asset-intensive organisations: the gap between the data they hold and the data they actually need to make good asset management decisions. By linking data quality monitoring directly to asset management processes and decision-making requirements, DataFrame provides infrastructure owners with a practical, evidence-based path to improving data health. It has become an important part of how we support clients in the data and information management space.
Contributing to the profession
Asset Dynamics was founded in part on a commitment to advancing asset management practice in New Zealand, not just for our clients but for the sector more broadly. Over the past three years we have delivered more than twenty industry presentations and authored over ten peer-reviewed conference papers and technical articles.
Highlights include papers presented at the Āpōpō Congress and Electricity Engineers' Association conferences, including a Best Paper finalist at Āpōpō 2025, a joint paper with Auckland Transport on asset management frameworks presented at the Transportation Conference 2026, and a contributed article in the Institute of Directors Boardroom Magazine on asset governance. We have also been engaged by Āpōpō to deliver training to asset management professionals across the region — a recognition of the expertise Asset Dynamics brings to the discipline.
Andrew Gatland was awarded the Certified Fellow in Asset Management (CFAM) designation in 2025, one of the most advanced credentials available to asset management practitioners globally.
Andrew Gatland presenting at Āpōpō Congress 2025
Jules Congalton presenting at EEA Conference 2023
Looking forward
The need for better asset management across New Zealand's infrastructure has never been clearer. Te Waihanga's State of Play report, the Infrastructure Commission's ongoing work, and the signals from regulators and ministers all point in the same direction: organisations need to do more with less, and that requires a genuine uplift in asset management maturity.
We look forward to continuing to support our clients on that journey, and to playing our part in advancing asset management practice across New Zealand's infrastructure sector.
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