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Asset, Facility & Infrastructure Advisory

Confident decisions about the assets you depend on.

We’re your partners in turning complex asset, facility, and infrastructure questions into clear answers your team can act on. Practical methods. Real conversations. Decisions you can defend.

Founded by senior advisors with 37+ years in the field, trusted by mission-critical organizations across the U.S.
Engineers collaborating on asset management
Who We Serve

Real-world organizations managing real-world asset challenges.

Where assets drive operations, budgets, compliance, and public service, we’ve helped organizations turn complexity into practical, sustainable solutions.

By the numbers

Nearly four decades of work, made visible.

37+
Years partnering with leaders in the field
42
U.S. states we’ve traveled to for clients
$500M+
In capital and sustainment portfolios advised
98%
Of our recommendations adopted by client teams
Why Whites Elm

Honest counsel, delivered alongside your team.

Most firms hand you a report and disappear. We stay close to the work, with leadership, planners, engineers, and frontline crews, until the program runs without us.

“Our job is to teach you to fish — to make ourselves unnecessary, gracefully, and on a timeline you can budget for.”

Scott Stukel
Scott Stukel Founder & Principal

Built by practitioners, not slide-makers

We’ve made the calls you’re facing, under the same constraints. 37+ years inside utilities, federal agencies, manufacturing plants, and complex public-sector portfolios.

Simplification is the deliverable

We turn 200-tab spreadsheets and tangled CMMS workflows into clear decision paths your team will actually use on a Tuesday morning.

We teach — we don’t lock you in

Our “teach you to fish” methodology builds internal champions. You walk away with a capable team, not a recurring invoice.

Defensible to executives, usable by crews

Risk frameworks that hold up to a board, expressed in language a crew lead can act on. Both audiences nod, and act.

What we do

Four practices, one steady partnership.

Pick the shape that fits the problem, from a coaching session to a multi-year program build. Every engagement is scoped to one thing: leaving your team stronger than we found it.

Strategy & Governance

Asset Management Program Supercharging

Asset management programs that fit your goals, your risk tolerance, and your funding realities. Defensible to executives, usable by crews.

  • AM program strategy, development & improvement
  • Capital & deferred-maintenance prioritization
  • Risk- and lifecycle-based decision frameworks
  • Executive coaching, steering team facilitation & board support
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Asset Intelligence

Condition, Risk & Portfolio Insight

Practical, usable insight into asset health and performance, without over-engineering or waiting for “perfect” data. Inventories and analytics that ship.

  • Asset & facility inventories
  • Condition, deficiency & risk frameworks
  • Backlog & deficiency management
  • Capital & sustainment planning support
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Operations & EAM/CMMS

Execution & System Enablement

Where strategy meets the work order. We design processes and systems that survive contact with the field, and rescue EAM/CMMS rollouts that have stalled.

  • Maintenance & work-management design
  • EAM/CMMS health-checks & recovery
  • Process simplification & governance
  • Utilities, energy & industrial systems support
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Training & Workforce

People & Leadership Development

We build capable, confident teams who sustain improvements long after we’re gone. Role-based training and coaching for leaders, planners, and field staff.

  • Asset management & facilities training
  • Role-based curricula & immersion sessions
  • Workshops & peer-learning cohorts
  • Change enablement & adoption support
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Specialized capability

IBM Maximo — the platform we know cold.

Most of our work is platform-agnostic. But Maximo shows up in many of our engagements, so we’ve built a dedicated practice around it: MAS migration, implementation recovery, configuration cleanup, and the integration patterns that actually work.

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How We Work

A simple path from confusion to confidence.

The same proven sequence behind every engagement, from a single-site assessment to an enterprise-wide program rebuild.

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Our process — Assess, Design, Enable, Grow: a four-step methodology
Proof in the work
Whites Elm didn’t hand us a 200-page report and disappear. They sat with our planners, fixed the workflow, and trained the next layer of leaders. The program is still running, two years later, and our team owns it.
Composite of feedback we receive from clients after long-form engagements. Named testimonials coming soon.
Team rebuilding an EAM workflow
Composite case study

Bringing a stalled EAM rollout back to life

An anonymized, aggregated case from EAM implementations we’ve been called in to recover. An organization 18 months into a stalled rollout, adoption below 30%. We rebuilt the workflow around how crews actually plan work, simplified the asset hierarchy, and re-trained planners and supervisors in eight weeks.

92%
Workflow adoption
8 wks
To results
3.2×
Planner output
Insights & Field Notes

Plain-spoken takes from the front line.

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Let’s find your next right move, together.

Tell us where you’re stuck. We’ll give you an honest read on what’s working, what isn’t, and the next two or three things worth doing, whether or not we’re part of it.

  • An honest, no-obligation read on your current state
  • Specific next-step recommendations, not a sales pitch
  • A direct call with Scott or Orlando, never a sales rep
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