Engineering asset management encompasses all types of engineered assets including built
environment infrastructure plant equipment hardware systems and components. Following the
release of ISO 5500x set of standards the 9th WCEAM addresses the hugely important issue of
what constitutes the body of knowledge in Engineering Asset Management. Topics discussed by
Congress delegates are grouped into a number of tracks including strategies for investment and
divestment of assets operations and maintenance of assets assessments of assets condition
risk and vulnerability technologies and systems for management of asset standards education
training and certification. These proceedings include a sample of the wide range of topics
presented during the 9th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management in Pretoria South
Africa 28 - 31 October 2014 and complements other emerging publications and standards that
embrace the wide ranging issues concerning the management of engineered physical assets.
