Asset-Management Toolkit: Minor Structures (ATOMS) Online Course

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ATOMs Training Courses

If you manage column, pole or building-mounted assets in any of the following sectors, then this one-day training course is for you:

Vital training on GN22 ATOMS is for professionals at all career levels.

This course offers advice based on best practice for the management of poles, columns and fixings on building-mounted lighting, smart cities equipment, signs and the like. The training is based on the principles of Well-managed highway infrastructure and provides practical guidance on how you can develop and manage these assets using a risk-based approach. GN22 ATOMS supersedes TR22 Managing a vital asset: lighting supports.

ILP GN22 ATOMS is the asset manager’s key document in this area, available to download from the ILP website and accompanied by a spreadsheet model, it is used to assess asset condition. Discover the challenges and processes which need to be implemented in order to use the guidance within the document to its full potential.

This CPD training will focus on the risk management and asset management aspects.

Suitable For

Asset managers at all levels
Senior lighting engineers
Lighting engineers
Consultants
Lighting staff

Course Content

Introduction & legal aspects
Codes of Practice, past and present
Risk and risk management
Asset management and inventories
GN22 ATOMS
Condition assessment process and data collection
Introduction to ATOMS condition model and Column Condition Index (CCI)
How to deal with TR22 data
Destructive and non-destructive testing techniques
Life cycle forward planning
Assumed Residual Life

Tutor Profile

Experience

With over 35 years in the street lighting industry, mainly as a local authority engineer and manager, Peter has a wide range of experience. Peter is a Director of Harrison Lighting Limited acting as an independent consultant in the exterior lighting industry before becoming ILP Technical Director in 2019. Prior to that, he was Head of Lighting Design and Additional Revenue at Balfour Beatty Living Places, responsible for the delivery of the lighting designs for the Core Investment Period (CIP) lighting replacements at Coventry, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire street lighting PFI projects.

The role also involved providing advice on invest to save schemes, energy reduction strategies, highway improvement schemes and public realm improvements at PFI projects in Derby, South Tyneside and Sunderland where CIP has been completed. He was involved in the procurement of the Birmingham Street Services PFI and before that was part of the core team that delivered the Staffordshire street lighting PFI.

He has experience of the maintenance and refurbishment of tunnel lighting and management systems. He has experience in developing city beautification policies and strategies, has extensive lighting design experience and working with Planning Authorities carrying out lighting impact assessments. Peter is experienced in developing street lighting policies, strategies and development plans to assist local authorities to achieve long term savings through Invest to Save strategies, developing carbon management plans and energy reduction strategies.

He is a past Chairman of the Midlands Region Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) and represents the ILP Midlands region at national level, has been a tutor and project leader on the ILP Exterior Lighting Diploma since 2003. He was chair of the panel that produced the Code of Practice for Seasonal Decorations, having been author of the original document and was a panel member that produced the ILP Technical report 23: Lighting of cycle tracks. More recently he managed the production of ATOMS, the document replacing Technical Report 22 on the risk management of lighting supports.