News, updates and best practices in maintenance and urban asset management — for those who design, operate and audit critical infrastructure.
A private university campus has a cyclical operation that imposes specific constraints on facility management: short well-defined intervention windows, a community sensitive to visible incidents, a heterogeneous asset mix and ongoing ranking pressure. Three operational challenges that classic management cannot sustain.
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A technical office's playbook is not documentation: it is a set of reusable artifacts applied on the next project without reinvention. Five concrete assets separate the office that scales by capitalization from the one that scales by adding headcount project by project.
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Predictive maintenance sits between commercial hype and real operational value. For some asset classes and operational profiles it produces measurable ROI; for others it adds cost without meaningful benefit. Four conditions decide whether the jump really pays off.
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The asset register's coordinate system is a decision taken at project start-up that cannot be corrected later without redoing every coordinate in the master. Four consequences that last the entire register's life and three concrete lines the engineering firm should pin in the RFP.
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Cost per managed asset is the metric that operationally unifies what operations and finance track separately. Four components, three usual barriers and three concrete practices to connect them without opening a full ERP integration project.
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The client's backup is the least-negotiated link in a technical SaaS contract and the one that decides, more than any other clause, who controls the data when the scenario shifts. Four possible arrangements, ranked by client sovereignty.
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