BUILDING SERVICES | SPONSOR AWARD-WINNING SFG20|B&ES
Following the successful launch of the new SFG20 in 2012, B&ES Publications collected the prestigious ‘Service and Maintenance Initiative of the Year’ award at the H&V News Awards, announced in April 2013 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
The development of the new SFG20 Customiser Compliance product has been driven by two primary factors – the necessity for its users to cut costs in today’s difficult economic climate and to wider reflect the needs of the Building and Engineering Services sector. The SFG20 web service now offers customisable service models for generic building or function types including schools, offices, libraries, hotels and car parks – with more to come. By selecting and customising the SFG20 maintenance models, FMs can identify compliant maintenance (statutory/legal obligations) – those ‘must dos’ to keep out of jail. And by using simple colour-coded criticality ratings, they can prioritise all the non-compliant maintenance tasks for every asset applicable to suit their bespoke building obligations and/or functional use.
Since its launch in 1990, the SFG20 core library has been expanded to meet the demand for maintenance schedules for all maintainable assets and now includes biomass boilers, solar panels and many more. There is also the option to include non-core tasks for other specialist installations and building elements.
By recognising the industry need to meet legal and fit for function maintenance requirements whilst delivering against austerity budgets, B&ES has married advances in technology with the need to make the SFG20 licensed services easier to apply and use in practice. The new SFG20 web service simplifies how FMs can plan and execute maintenance regimes, allowing them to create and customise maintenance standards applicable
SFG20 win Service and Maintenance Initiative of the Year Award: (from left to right) Paul Sharp, National Sales Manager, Riello Burners; Andy Green, Vice Chair SFG20 Technical Standards Committee; Rachel Davidson, B&ES Publications Manager; Peter Excell, Chair SFG20 Technical Standards Committee; and Jon Culshaw, presenter.
to their specific project or estate and facilities’ functional requirements. This establishes precise service level specifications and enables users to model maintenance programmes to their business needs, strategies, contractual obligations and budgets.
Extensive cross-industry collaboration and consultation among practitioners, professional bodies and trade associations has brought the new SFG20 up-to-date with technical standards. Aligning the SFG20 library with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) new rules of measurement has also created the link between constructing and maintaining assets, thereby providing the basis for more accurate asset maintenance registers, as well as supporting the Building Information Modelling (BIM) agenda. Behind the web service is a technical committee responsible for the ongoing updates and progression of SFG20, which will ensure it is kept up-to-date with legal and good practices.
The new three-part SFG20 is comprised of: Core SFG20 Library: Offers users over 400 industry standard maintenance specifications covering all principal types of heating, cooling and ventilation, installation plant and electrical services, complete with
30 | TOMORROW’S FM YEARBOOK regular technical updates.
Customiser Compliance: Allows users to create a bespoke building maintenance task library and includes links to all relevant statutory/legal obligations and references, with regular updates.
Customiser Service Model: Enables users to prioritise maintenance regimes using criticality ratings to avoid under or over maintaining assets. Pre-defined functional models, such as schools and offices, allow users to refine their specific requirements. Data can be printed as a customised pdf or downloaded into tender documents and FM computerised maintenance management systems.
Through the web service, FMs have the capability to effectively customise maintenance standards for tender purposes. It also enables analysis and understanding of where money is being spent, in order to set and defend future budgets, allowing them to demonstrate the right cost and optimum regime to appropriately maintain their business critical assets, whilst ensuring legal compliance.
For more information, to download the SFG20 application form or to set up a free 30- day trial, go to
www.sfg20.co.uk
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