Maintenance
Facility Maintenance Services
Facility maintenance, often referred to as “FM”, is pretty much what it sounds like: the professional discipline of continuously monitoring, planning, and executing ongoing facility maintenance services to ensure the integrity of a built environment, its staff, and the functions they’re designed to meet. With so many of our clients operating in the spaces of retail and hospitality, facility maintenance becomes that much more important – as seemingly small problems can lead to significant losses in revenue.Our job doesn’t finish once the building is ready for move-in – in fact, it’s just begun. Our Action Build Construction team provides ongoing facility maintenance support to industrial, commercial, and institutional clients to ensure the long-term quality and operational efficiency of our clients’ buildings.
Preventative vs. Corrective Maintenance
Another way to look at physical facility management services is by breaking them down into the categories of “predictive maintenance” and “corrective maintenance”. As the names suggest, predictive maintenance is all about scheduling ongoing service checks, inspections, and repairs so that you stop problems before they arise. These duties are often undertaken by a facility manager, who oversees and delegates tasks to their maintenance employees while scheduling ongoing repairs and regular testing of safety systems like fire alarms. But even with extremely prudent planning, unexpected problems tend to arise – and that’s when “corrective maintenance” comes into play. When a technician spots a problem, they work to fix it as efficiently as possible in the hopes of minimizing downtime (at which point, we move into “breakdown” or “emergency” maintenance mode). Our Action Build Construction teams work very hard to implement systems that keep our clients from getting to these latter stages, especially in commercial settings where just a single day of operational shutdown can have significant financial repercussions.