Maintenance Services Team
What does the Maintenance Services Team do?
The Maintenance Services Team are a specialist in house maintenance team who are responsible for carrying out routine, planned and reactive maintenance work, including emergency repairs throughout the university’s estates 24/7 365 days a year.
The maintenance list below gives a brief guide to some of the team’s responsibilities, but is not exhaustive:
- Maintenance and repair to buildings internal and external fabric.
- Maintenance and repair to buildings internal systems.
- Maintenance of electrical installations and distribution systems.
- Maintenance of mechanical installations and distribution systems.
- Small works projects, building, electrical, mechanical and refurbishments.
- Specialist maintenance contracts -Lifts, Automatic Door systems, Barriers, Gates, Bollards, Roller shutters, Fire Shutters, Gutter Cleaning.
- Standby and out-of-hours callout for emergencies.
Types of Maintenance
Long term maintenance consists of surveying assets around the campus to determine the life cycle status of each item and the cost to replace them. This is linked with the asset management process, whereby any assets identified as requiring maintenance will either be incorporated into the long term maintenance schedule or the planned preventative maintenance calendar, depending on the severity of the condition.
Planned preventative maintenance is routine maintenance undertaken on equipment and systems on a periodic basis at pre-defined intervals. The tasks undertaken are defined by statutory legislation and industry-standard maintenance schedules. All major plant and equipment is covered under the plan included heating & hot water, electrical, fire protection, water and ventilation systems.
At the University, reactive maintenance is undertaken in response to breakdown or to reports from the students, staff, or other users of the University. The implications of failure range from loss of facility to consequential damage of buildings and equipment. In some circumstances, the failure could be detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of the users of the University.