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Building Maintenance

One third of the annual expenditure on building works in the UK is devoted to maintenance and refurbishment.  Maintenance falls into two categories: remedial and preventative.   The skill in advising on maintenance lies in identifying a defect, assessing its cause, gauging the seriousness of the problems and assessing

the likely extent of consequential work if a defect is not attended to immediately.

Maintenance also involves a financial management to ensure that adequate provision is made for any works to be carried out and avoid large fluctuations in outgoings.  A planned maintenance programme will ensure that a client can make adequate financial provision.

When remedial or maintenance works has been identified, tenders are invited on the basis of drawings and specifications.  The works on site are monitored, regular site inspections carried out and stage payments to the contractor certified related to work completed on site.

How Can We Help?

John Kershaw have wide experience of carrying out maintenance and refurbishment work including the setting up and monitoring or planned maintenance programmes. Individual projects require taking of the clients brief, preparation of drawings and specifications, obtaining quotations and monitoring work on site to the certification of accounts.

A planned maintenance programme will normally require a stock condition survey to assess areas of major expenditure required, defining major repair and general maintenance objectives, negotiating a planned maintenance contract with one or more specialist contractors, agreeing a system for call-outs and priorities and monitoring spending.

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