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Announcements

IWA Strategic Asset Management Steering Committee

Strategic Asset Management Consultancy 2026 Award

MacDonald Consultancy Partnership Declaration

We are happy to announce!

Alexander "Sandy" Muir, our director, joins the IWA Strategic Asset Management Committee — a seat at the table where international water asset management practice is debated, tested and codified.

Sandy brings more than forty years in infrastructure consulting to the role. He is a contributor to the International Infrastructure Management Manual, a reviewer of the ISO 55000 suite for the AWA when it first arrived in Australia, and one of the practitioners who helped establish strategic asset management as a formal discipline.

For our clients, this is not a plaque on the wall. It means the plans, valuations and maturity assessments we prepare draw on what the world's leading utilities are doing right now — not on what passes for best practice five years ago. Ageing networks, constrained capital and rising service expectations are the same problems everywhere. The difference lies in knowing which solutions actually work.

Want that thinking applied to your asset base? Talk to us.

IWA Announcement Post

IWA Website

Odysseus-imc has opened an Official Store on Books.by!

Odysseus-imc is pleased to announce the opening of its official online bookstore on Books.by, marking an exciting new step into independent publishing and creative storytelling.

The new store will feature a growing collection of original books designed for readers of all ages, including children’s adventures, colouring books, puzzle books, travel crosswords, and other unique illustrated titles. The store launches with The Adventures of Hamish – The Highland Hero, a bilingual English and Scottish Gaelic children’s story centred around kindness, friendship, and adventure in the Scottish Highlands.

The Books.by store has been created to provide readers with direct access to Odysseus-imc publications in both paperback and digital formats. Future releases will expand across multiple genres and formats, with a strong focus on high-quality design, creativity, and memorable reading experiences.

“Our goal is to create books that people genuinely enjoy collecting, sharing, and revisiting,” said Odysseus-imc. “This store gives us the opportunity to build a growing catalogue of imaginative and visually distinctive titles under one home.”

The launch represents the beginning of a broader publishing initiative, with additional titles and series already in development.

The Adventures of Hamish: The Highland Hero!
The Adventures of Hamish – The Highland Hero is a heartwarming bilingual colouring adventure that follows Hamish, a brave little West Highland Terrier, as he journeys through the beautiful Scottish Highlands helping friends along the way. Throughout the story, Hamish meets new companions, explores mountains, bridges, cottages, and valleys, and discovers that kindness, teamwork, and helping others make every adventure more meaningful.

What makes the book especially unique is that every page is presented in both English and Scottish Gaelic, allowing children and families to naturally learn Gaelic words and phrases while enjoying the story and colouring illustrations. The simple sentence structure and side-by-side translations make the language approachable and fun, helping readers build familiarity with Gaelic in an engaging and memorable way.

Filled with charming Highland-inspired illustrations and lovable characters including Angus the Highland Cow, Maisie the Lamb, Cooper the Pup, and Pip the Duck, the book encourages creativity, language learning, and positive values through storytelling and colouring together.

The official store is now live exclusively at BOOKS.BY.

Click the button below to access the official Odysseus-imc store on BOOKS.BY and explore the growing collection of available titles.

We are happy to announce!

Odysseus-imc Pty Ltd has been awarded Best Strategic Asset Management Consultancy 2026!

Odysseus-imc Pty Ltd is named APAC's Best Strategic Asset Management Consultancy, February 2026, with the award featured in APAC Insider.

The recognition reflects more than forty years of work on infrastructure that has to last — and a conviction that better data and strategic clarity are what turn an asset register into a decision-making tool. Our clients do not buy reports. They buy the confidence to defend a capital programme.

For clients, the practical difference is who sits across the table. Engaging Odysseus-imc means working directly with the people who wrote the manuals the industry uses — not with a junior team applying a template. Asset management plans that hold up under audit, valuations that survive scrutiny, and renewal forecasts a board will actually sign off on: that is what the recognition is built on, and it is what every engagement is expected to deliver.

Read the featured article and interview with our Director, Sandy Muir, below.

Read the Article

In collaboration with Macdonald Consultancy, we have undertaken several significant projects that exemplify our commitment to enhancing asset management capabilities. Our notable accomplishments include:

Murrumbidgee Irrigation:
- Implementation of asset management
- Creation of Asset Management Plans
- FMECA & RCM training for pump stations
- Introduction of AM functions and methodology e.g. Criticality, Risk and Lifecycle
- Asset Handover
- Buildings Data Collection & Lifecycle Analysis
- Buildings Valuation
Provision of specialised services to Mt. Lawley Hospital in preparation for asset handover to government
Glenelg Shire Council - Establishment and monitoring of Asset Management Improvements
Darwin (NT) Correctional Facilities - Facility expansion and Utilities Design Review (50% and (90%)
Development of the asset register for Al Sader schools in the United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi