A consistent maintenance approach, tailored to UAE conditions
From the sustained cooling demand of a hotel to the shared services of a residential tower, buildings across the UAE face different pressures. Heat, dust, humidity and coastal exposure can affect equipment, while complex ownership arrangements and inherited maintenance scopes create uncertainty.
Effective planned preventive maintenance begins with a clear understanding of the installed assets, the work required and who is responsible. A common baseline brings consistency, while local review keeps the plan relevant to each site.
- Reliable cooling: Review operating hours, peak demand, equipment condition and maintenance responsibilities.
- Environmental exposure: Consider dust, humidity and coastal conditions alongside manufacturer guidance.
- Complex estates: Clarify maintenance boundaries across owners, managing agents and specialist contractors.
- Local requirements: Check the municipality, Civil Defence and other authorities applicable to each building.
- How cooling demand, heat, dust, humidity and coastal exposure influence maintenance planning.
- How to establish consistent maintenance requirements across properties and providers.
- Why accurate asset information, handover documentation and clear responsibilities matter.
- How to develop more transparent maintenance scopes and cost assumptions.
- How Facilities-iQ and SFG20 Mobiliser support planning, mapping and change management.
- Eight practical questions to assess your current UAE maintenance approach.
Build your maintenance plan on a recognised standard
SFG20 is the industry standard for building maintenance specification. With more than 1,500 maintenance schedules, it provides a structured starting point for identifying the tasks, frequencies, estimated times and skills associated with building assets.
Through Facilities-iQ, teams can build and tailor maintenance regimes, review SFG20 schedule updates and share agreed requirements. Use the same baseline across your portfolio while recording changes justified by building use, asset condition and local operating requirements.
SFG20 is not a substitute for UAE legislation, authority approvals, manufacturer requirements or competent local judgement. Its UK statutory references and classifications must be reviewed for the relevant UAE site.
More control for asset owners. Clearer scopes for FM providers.
For UAE asset owners and managing agents:
Gain greater visibility of the maintenance requirements behind your building budgets and FM contracts. Use a consistent baseline to compare proposals, review scope changes, clarify responsibilities and prioritise maintenance decisions supported by evidence.
For FM providers and contractors:
Build clearer asset-based scopes for tendering, resource planning and mobilisation. Establish the maintenance assumptions behind your bids and create a stronger foundation for contract delivery, variations and communication with clients.
Spend less time building maintenance plans
SFG20 Mobiliser automatically matches asset information to relevant SFG20 schedules, saving up to 95% of the time compared with manual asset-to-schedule mapping. Teams can review and adjust suggested matches, keeping control of the resulting maintenance regime.
Facilities-iQ then helps teams tailor schedules, monitor updates and share the agreed maintenance requirements. Supported integrations can connect maintenance planning with downstream CAFM, CMMS or IWMS systems, subject to the relevant subscription and integration arrangements.
Supporting maintenance planning in the UAE
Al Mujama Real Estate, a division of Dubai Investments PJSC, uses SFG20 to support more consistent maintenance requirements and clearer conversations with service providers.
“I would say it saves me 60–70% of my time.”
— Jawad Bou Saab, Technical Facilities Manager, Al Mujama Real Estate
Qualification: The estimate relates to setting up maintenance scopes using SFG20 schedules and integration, not total maintenance time.
Free guide: From Handover to High Performance
Download our practical guide to maintaining UAE buildings using a consistent, asset-based maintenance standard tailored to local conditions.
Inside the guide you will discover:
- How cooling demand, heat, dust, humidity and coastal exposure influence maintenance planning.
- How to establish consistent maintenance requirements across properties and providers.
- Why accurate asset information, handover documentation and clear responsibilities matter.
- How to develop more transparent maintenance scopes and cost assumptions.
- How Facilities-iQ and SFG20 Mobiliser support planning, mapping and change management.
- Eight practical questions to assess your current UAE maintenance approach.
