Services
Condition / Planned Maintenance Surveys
Planned maintenance is only one approach to dealing with deterioration of components and focuses on the medium and long-term maintenance of buildings. Alternative and complementary strategies include:
- Condition-based maintenance - maintenance is carried out when the condition of the component requires intervention.
- Responsive maintenance - maintenance intervention takes place after the component has fallen below an acceptable standard.
- Improvement - a maintenance policy may involve replacing failed components with components which better the original component.
The management of planned maintenance covers many issues from the strategic (ensuring the maintenance strategies meeting the needs of the organisation) to the practical (managing maintenance activities).
A list of the type of issues which may be addressed as part of the management of planned maintenance includes:
- Determining maintenance strategies to meet the organisation's aims and objectives.
- Developing a maintenance plan.
- Setting condition standards and asset performance requirements.
- Establishing priorities.
- Liasing with asset users.
- Financial allocation of organisation's budget, costing and budgeting maintenance works.
- Programming work.
- Maintenance information - costs, technical information, maintenance manuals; reviewing and feedback on performance; annual reports.
The survey will comprise inspecting the property to compile a recommended maintenance schedule based on the visible condition of the property seen at the time of inspection. The cause of defects will not be commented upon and, unless otherwise instructed, advice in respect of the effect of defects on the proposed or current use of the property will not be given. A planned maintenance survey is not a building survey; where further investigations into defects are felt necessary, these will be identified within the body of the report.
The Planned Maintenance Report will be produced in the agreed format and costed utilising suitable/current price data.
