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From estate managers to asset and property leaders, council facilities management teams navigate constrained resources, fragmented asset information and increasingly complex estates. High-profile cases at Croydon and Newham councils have demonstrated how poor visibility of assets, maintenance requirements and compliance responsibilities can lead to significant financial, operational and reputational consequences.
Created by SFG20
SFG20 is the industry standard for building maintenance specification. This guide draws on best practice maintenance management principles to help local authorities improve compliance, prioritise limited resources and manage risk across complex public estates.
What you’ll learn in our council facilities management e-guide
- Improving compliance with limited resources: Explore practical strategies for meeting statutory maintenance obligations, even as councils face increasing financial pressures, smaller teams and growing compliance responsibilities
- How councils can prioritise maintenance spending: Learn how to use risk-based maintenance to focus limited budgets on the assets and maintenance activities that have the greatest impact on safety, compliance and public service delivery
- Improving confidence in asset registers and estate data: Discover practical approaches to improve asset visibility and maintenance planning when managing complex and expanding estates
- Adapting maintenance during local government reorganisation: Learn how to navigate council devolution and organisational change to ensure rigid maintenance standards, accurate asset information and compliance
- Managing contractors and specifying maintenance requirements: Learn how standardised maintenance specifications can help councils define maintenance activities clearly, improve contractor oversight and strengthen contract management
- Supporting procurement and maintenance tendering: Find out how standardised maintenance schedules can support tender creation and improve bid evaluation
Facilities-iQ for council facilities management
Watch a quick tour of Facilities-iQ's key features to see how our advanced maintenance software can help councils standardise maintenance activities and embed preventative maintenance strategies across complex public sector estates.
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Why planned preventative maintenance matters for local government facilities management
Planned preventative maintenance (PPM) is central to effective local government facilities management, helping councils maintain safe, compliant and reliable public buildings. As local authorities inherit ageing assets, manage larger estates and work within tighter budgets, reactive maintenance can quickly become costly and difficult to control. Rather than responding to failures after they occur, a proactive maintenance approach helps councils to identify and address issues earlier, improving asset performance, supporting compliance and reducing disruption to essential public services. From civic offices and libraries to leisure centres and community buildings, PPM helps councils maintain greater oversight of their estates while making the most of limited resources.
