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EDUCATION & SCHOOL FACILITIES


of £150m annually on unnecessary operation and maintenance costs. The new report is further insight into the Government’s own assertion that just 5% of the nearly 60,000 school buildings across the UK are performing as intended and operating efficiently. The prevalence of damp, leaky classrooms and asbestos- ridden buildings in British schools means too many pupils and teachers are struggling to learn and teach in conditions damaging to their health and education.


The Survisor system provides condition survey data for improved efficiencies within schools and education estates. In order to increase operational efficiencies, facilities managers require improved technology to enable them to manage an education estate portfolio with ease. One of the key factors to the successful management of a range of buildings is the storage and management of the data and information pertaining to each. The accessibility of this data is one of the core contributors to successful building management and subsequently, the smooth delivery of facility management services. A building management system (BMS) or a building automation system (BAS) is a computer-based control system used to map complete building systems in order to control and monitor the building’s data relating to its’ systems and equipment such as ventilation, lighting, fire systems, security and health and safety systems. The preventative nature of Survisor enables the condition of the condition of the school to be managed in real time rather than after just one big survey.


Survisor is an image-driven, portable building data management system, which provides users with an instant overview of specific data relating to the condition of their buildings and facilities. The data managed within the Survisor system can revolutionise the way school buildings are managed by providing information for tender processes, finding real time market prices for their current condition issues, and provide reporting which can simplify budgeting over the next five years.


A portable data capture and retrieval system is used to audit and map


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SURVISOR MD BILL BURTON SAID:


“The programme of structural surveys arranged by schools could be easily input into the


Survisor System. We can import a full condition survey to PDSP standards if they already have


one, or we can undertake one and keep it up-to-date. We could take the touch screen technology and make the plan of the buildings,


the blueprint to all the data. They could then manage all building


assets by touching the asset which it relates to. Even to find out the condition of a particular building by pressing the room itself. It


would allow them to manage all their buildings in one place.”


complete buildings and the assets and safety systems within. Using visual navigation and the latest touch-screen technology, data is mapped out using interactive floor survey plans that deliver a set of complex data about any number of building assets and services for health and safety checking and reporting, building maintenance or any other requirements. The system is designed to manage any building’s data and become an essential partner in the drive to keep on top of maintenance checks, as this innovative and interactive system can provide: alerts when checks are due; reports showing frequency of faults in specific areas and even costing schedules for planning maintenance work into the future.


Survisor eliminates the need for locating and carrying out lengthy analyses of historical building condition


surveys, vastly reducing the time required for assessment and reporting and greatly increasing the visibility of the condition of assets in real time.


Recently the Edinburgh Schools Partnership, Edinburgh City Council and the Contractors could have benefited from the preventative maintenance technology that Survisor offer, by having the latest up-to-date information of all the building details at their fingertips, thereby avoiding costly reactive maintenance and future condition survey report costs. It would have highlighted the ever-increasing cumulative problems at an earlier stage, and allowed those issues to be escalated to the relevant people. Survisor brings approach and advancements to the CAFM field, providing a system which is not only essential in terms of the maintenance management it provides, but is also extremely easy to use and allows the whole school estate to be view at once picking up identical building fault patterns.


With a powerful data repository sitting behind the system, each defect can be reported against, to provide detailed information to enable proactive repairs to be undertaken before the issue gets out of hand. Details of conditions and photographs can be easily exported from the Survisor system in order to provide contractors and estate managers with enough information to provide competitive quotes, and to create tender packages for larger jobs.


The survey would normally be provided as a paper copy or on an excel spreadsheet. This leaves FM’s a lot of work to do in order to collate information for preventative maintenance, and to be able to collect information for submissions for funding. The Survisor Team are currently offering a no-obligation demonstration of their system to illustrate how it provides critical asset data at the touch of a screen. This would be useful for Local Authorities or Schools Building Partnerships or Contractors involved in School refurbishment and other PFI projects.


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