Planned Preventative Maintenance

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The regular expenditure of a small amount of maintenance funds is more cost effective, than large injections of capital every 5, 10 or 20 years.

People often think that once a building has been ‘restored’, it doesn’t need to be looked at again for many years, unfortunately this isn't true. Many major building repairs can be prevented, if minor issues are attended to quickly. All properties require regular maintenance to hold and improve their value as a home, asset, place of business, or premises to let. Our management team can develop an inspection and maintenance schedule to ensure your property stays in the condition required. Being a specialised maintenance company with the complete range of skills available to us, we are able to organise and schedule planned preventive maintenance from one central location.

We have the tools required to manage planned maintenance, by creating schedules and budgets to form a maintenance plan, that balances work load and costs efficiently.  Using reporting and forecasting tools, we create schedules that reduce costs and improve efficiencies. By switching from reactive maintenance to preventative maintenance, you can cut your operations and maintenance costs by 10% to 15%.

We are happy to formulate service level agreements (SLA), to ensure that agreed high service levels are maintained.

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Establishing a Maintenance Plan

When buildings are neglected, defects can occur, which may result in extensive and avoidable damage to the building fabric. Neglect of maintenance can also give rise to fire and safety hazards.  This is why we recommend the establishment of maintenance plans for buildings and estates.

Implementation of a maintenance plan is the most cost-effective way to maintain the value of an asset. The advantages of a plan are:

• the property is organised and maintained in a systematic, rather than ad-hoc way;
• Costs can be planned and budgeted for;
• building services can be monitored to assist their efficient use;
• subjective decision making and emergency corrective maintenance are minimised.

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The Importance of Planned Maintenance Management

The success or failure of effective maintenance management has a dramatic impact on the ability of any organisation to conduct its business.

Maintenance contributes in a number of ways to an organisation’s business:

• Protection of asset value
• Providing a safe environment
• Capital replacement planning
• Undisrupted operations
• Statutory compliance

In order to fulfil the increasingly stringent government and corporate mandates, it is necessary for individual property owners and organisations to closely plan, manage and monitor maintenance, to ensure the proper execution and administration of activities. The basic concept remains that buildings and equipment need to meet the desired safety and quality standards, albeit within financial constraints.

All maintenance activities need to be assessed, planned, and coordinated, ensuring minimum disruption to an organisation's core business. Corrective maintenance needs to be managed properly and assessed, and introducing preventative maintenance plans can cut your Operations and Maintenance costs by 10% to 15%.