Preventative Maintenance Plans for Condominiums and Commercial Properties Designed to Reduce Costs and Extend the Service Life Performance
As an engineering firm, we are seldom asked to look at well maintained buildings. Instead, we normally find a complex with no maintenance plan of any kind or one that has been on a dusty shelf where it was placed the day it was delivered. A majority of the maintenance crews we observe are totally reactive to the problem of the day and show little interest in performing any organized preventative maintenance. Our firm can prepare a comprehensive, structured preventative maintenance plan with schedules and budgets to ensure all key building envelope components are effectively maintained. In addition, our plans and schedules are updated with each general inspection to reflect actual component performance and reserve funding adjusted accordingly.
Recognizing the true value of a comprehensive, but practical maintenance plan, we see the importance of critical points that must be covered to make a plan effective. The BE-CI plan provides the three missing links that make our three year plan work. First we provide a 3rd party construction observation that ensures in-house scheduled inspections and required repairs or replacements will take place as scheduled. Then we provide an initial Condition Survey that covers all critical building components and finally a Reserve Study, with estimated repair or replacement costs along with a cash flow budget. With this data, and our Annual Condition Inspections, we are able to fine tune the maintenance schedules and budgets to keep our plan current. Even the cost for our services are incorporated into the budget and calculated into the reserves. Since we are able to provide our services in a package plan it brings great cost savings to the costumer and invoicing will be on a monthly basis spread out over the 3 Year life of the plan.