Project
Ten year Planned Preventative Maintenance Plan for a large, privately owned retirement village complex.
The client required a costed planned maintenance report for the retirement village which comprised 137 apartments in three multi-storey blocks and 17 semi-detached houses. The client also required a long term lifecycle replacement schedule for major items of mechanical and electrical equipment.
Challenges
- The various buildings in the retirement village had been constructed in phases and were of differing ages, thus requiring a greater or lesser extent of maintenance work.
- The cost information needed to include items that were foreseeable in the next ten years but also lifecycle replacement forecasts over the next 25 years, which is unusual.
Solution
The grouping of the buildings into blocks and groups relating to the construction phases was agreed with the client to ensure a thorough representation the condition of the village, with sufficient detail to ensure the complexity of the maintenance requirements was not over-simplified in the report.
Careful consideration was given to the means of reporting the very long term lifecycle replacement of building components to ensure the report did not become overloaded with data, as many building elements would require upgrade or replacement over 25 years. It was agreed with the client that items identified beyond the ten year milestone would focus on major items of equipment only (E.g. lifts and principal electrical switchgear).
