SFG20 LAUNCHES ITS RESOURCE MODELLER
SFG20, a maintenance management specialist and UK industry standard for building maintenance specifications, has recently launched an innovative tool called SFG20 Resource Modeller.
This unique tool is designed to help maintenance professionals identify resource requirements to account for the maintenance costs of new buildings throughout their lifespan. Indicative cost scenarios can be created at the design and construction stage, which helps commissioners, facility management experts, designers, and financial modelling professionals find the most cost-efficient strategy to help businesses achieve and review their maintenance goals.
When it comes to commissioning a new building, one of the biggest challenges for the commissioning team and architects is estimating what the cost of maintenance will be - a process that often involves a level of guesswork due to the complexity of large-scale projects with key factors ranging from the quality of the building to the design, location, materials, and size.
Typically, the gross internal floor area is used as a proxy. This unit of measurement, however, does not take into consideration the type or number of assets to maintain within the building or the human resource required to maintain them - leading to a large variance in actual versus the budgeted maintenance costs, accompanied by financial and resource planning challenges in the long-term, particularly at the building handover stage.
To support clients with solving these challenges, SFG20’s unique Resource Modeller tool can be used to create scenarios and can provide its users with a more accurate overview of the maintenance costs associated with new buildings. Using this tool, commissioning teams can evaluate various building scenarios, including size, location and asset list. This is particularly useful since it is estimated that 80% of a building’s
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full lifespan comes from maintenance, with the remaining 20% of the costs coming from construction costs.
With such a high proportion being spent on maintenance, an inability to forecast maintenance costs accurately is an issue that the UK’s leading housing developers are desperate to resolve, as its implications also affect the ability to design green buildings. As such, SFG20’s development of such a unique specialist tool could not be more apt in assisting companies at the design and construction stage and helping them find the most cost- effective maintenance solution while working towards greener energy consumption targets.
Smart by Design - How the Resource Modeller Works
Once the user provides the Resource Modeller with building details, such as the location by region, internal floor area and asset list, they can create their own bespoke maintenance plan by select the maintenance schedules that are most applicable. Following this step, users can adjust variables such as hourly rates, model quantities, and input specialist costs to help refine and calculate the annualised cost profile.
For each scenario, SFG20 Resource Modeller uses a colour-coded system to outline what maintenance tasks need to occur, including red tasks which are critical to complete for compliance with legislation and regulation. Optimal tasks are colour-coded orange and should be performed to optimise the lifespan of the relevant asset. Resource requirements are itemised and calculated in terms of the number of hours and skillsets required which helps companies with budget planning and resourcing.
It also identified the important areas for budgets to be focused to avoid the risks of non-compliance, which helps maintenance teams to allocate funds appropriately. Early intervention also gives these teams the flexibility to create tender estimates, calculate budget requirements, and use the Resource Modeller as a tool for justification and communication to stakeholders. Aligned with RIC’s new rules of measurement and suitable for use across a wide range of industries, the Resource Modeller’s standardised approach gives users access to a central hub of maintenance schedules and checklists to ensure each building project is compliant with UK legislation.
Given that the majority of the nation’s building stock is comprised of legacy estates, it’s important to note that SFG20 Resource Modeller is just as valuable when used to calculate indicative maintenance costs for existing buildings. Maintenance solutions need to ensure assets operate efficiently through effective and applied maintenance interventions. By doing so, buildings will become more efficient, and assets will last longer. ‘Clean Growth’ has been identified as a strategic imperative by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy — with the goal of halving energy use in new buildings by 2030.
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