A retirement village’s facilities manager needs to know their stuff. Their work involves a fair amount of monitoring and tracking of the maintenance and upkeep needs for existing buildings and grounds. It also includes seeing to the environmental health, safety and security issues on the property, and ensuring that any maintenance or repair work is being done in compliance with existing regulations. Facilities managers also need to keep ahead of a property’s future maintenance and repair needs.
Facilities management work also keeps people in mind
Facility management also involves “coordinating the physical work environment with the people and work of an organisation”, says a course description published on the UCI Irvine University website. When it comes to retirement village life, this means maintaining a quality living environment for elderly residents that is not overly disrupted by the village’s property maintenance and repair requirements.There are many strategic advantages to subcontracting your facilities management work to an external contractor
A series of blogs by FacilitiesNet on facilities management lists the benefits of handing over commercial property maintenance and repair responsibilities to an external facilities manager as follows:
Being freed up to focus on your core business activities while the external facilities manager sees to your property maintenance and upkeep;
A consistent value-add to your business and property, through quality service delivery (which can only give you a competitive edge);
Improved control over the consistency and quality of maintenance and repair work being done, thanks to the external facilities manager’s specialised expertise;
The introduction of best practice systems that adhere to internationally accredited standards of work performance.Higgins Coatings is an obvious choice for your outsourced retirement village maintenance requirements
Higgins Coatings is the best company for the job. Firstly, we ‘know’ retirement villages. We have done repainting work for Aveo Balwyn in East Melbourne and the Cascades Retirement Resort in New Zealand, as well as internal refurbishment work for Retirement Alliance in Brighton and Aveo Concierge Bayside near Melbourne (to name a few of our customers).Higgins Coatings only works with quality products and partners to ensure a high standard of service provision.
Higgins has developed mutually beneficial relationships with key suppliers. Through these relationships, and our buying power, we can offer cost savings on products, reduce availability problems, minimise delays, and provide a greater level of quality assurance. We also have access to the newest technologies on the market.We care about the environment and have achieved an industry-leading ISO Tri-Certification Accreditation
Higgins is committed to safety, quality and the environment. To this end, we have implemented an Integrated Management System and obtained tri-certification accreditation in Quality and Environmental Management Systems and A Universal Framework to Manage Hazards.
Using a commercial property maintenance company like ours means that your facility management is taken care of, from repairs and pre-painting preparations to specialised services like graffiti removal, specialised access and colour consultancy. Request a quote from us today.
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