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Maintenance and repair of Loading Facilities
Maintenance and repair of Loading Facilities
Facilities operations and maintenance encompasses a broad spectrum of services, competencies, processes, and tools required to assure the built environment will perform the functions for which a facility was designed and constructed. Operations and maintenance typically includes the day-to-day activities necessary for the building/built structural, its systems and equipment, and occupants/users to perform their intended function. Operations and maintenance are combined into the common term O&M because a facility cannot operate at peak efficiency without being maintained; therefore the two are discussed as one.
The Facilities O&M section offers guidance in the following areas:
Real Property Inventory (RPI)—Provides an overview on the type of system needed to maintain an inventory of an organization’s physical assets and manage those assets.
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)—Contains descriptions of procedures and practices used to track the maintenance of an organization’s assets and associated costs. These projects are commonly repetitive, include preventive, planned/scheduled, and emergency activities, with projects under and established dollar threshold.
Computer Aided Facilities Management—originally referred to space planning technologies, however, is not used more generically to describe a variety of technologies addressing any or all aspects of Facilities Management. Examples include
CMMS, BIM, IWMS, and others.
O&M Manuals—it is now widely recognized that O&M represents the greatest expense in owning and operating a facility over its life cycle. The accuracy, relevancy, and timeliness of well-developed, user-friendly O&M manuals cannot be overstated. Hence, it is becoming more common for detailed, facility-specific O&M manuals to be required as a part of the total commissioning process. These manuals describe the processes, methods, tools, components, and frequencies involved for requisite operations and management of physical assets.
Janitorial/Cleaning—As the building is opened the keys are turned over to the janitorial, custodial or housekeeping staff for interior “cleaning” and maintenance. Using environmentally friendly cleaning products and incorporating safer methods to clean buildings provides for better property asset management and a healthier workplace. Grounds maintenance and proper cleaning of exterior surfaces are also important to an effective overall facility maintenance and cleaning program. Janitorial/Cleaning, as well as Landscaping, Snowplowing, etc. are considered to be General Maintenance Activities.
Historic Buildings Operations and Maintenance—this is a unique and complex issue: balancing keeping old equipment running while contemplating the impact of installing new more efficient equipment. Further, cleaning of delicate surfaces and artwork require the use of products that are less likely to damage these surfaces, while providing a healthy environment for the building’s occupants. Maintaining strict temperature and humidity control to protect artwork and antiquities is an additional challenge for the O&M staff.
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