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title: Guide to Effective Asset Management for Buildings & Equipment
description: Download our popular guide to asset management, outlining the most important stages and how CMMS software can help the process.
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# Guide to Effective Asset Management for Buildings & Equipment

## Essential advice for asset management

### Download our popular white paper

Actively managing assets is essential for efficient and sustainable operation of an organisation and, at an aggregate level, for the economy. Whether it’s an item of building services plant, a school or a railway bridge every asset needs to be managed and maintained to ensure it continues to function within design parameters.

This white paper provides an **overview of asset management** within the facilities management context. It is targeted at the practising facilities professional with little knowledge of professional asset management and explores some of the key definitions of asset management, together with the terminology used.

**This white paper will explain:**

- The four phases of an asset's life: planning & acquisition, operation, maintenance, disposal
- The role good asset management plays in each
- The impact of ISO 55000
- How CMMS can track and manage assets for proactive asset management strategies.

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