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Often, Dubai school buildings are more than educational facilities, they are the cornerstone of the local community.

As with any public or private mixed-use facility, foot traffic and gatherings of people mean an increased need for ongoing maintenance to ensure the health,
safety, and security of everyone who passes through the school’s doors.
Because each school’s use varies outside of standard class attendance, each facility requires procedures tailored to its use case.
But if you identify these needs early and plan appropriately to set up your maintenance,
you will quickly be able to ensure the safety of the school across the board.

Why is School Maintenance important to schools?

The most obvious reasons for maintaining School Maintenance buildings are often described as preventing liability and hazards,

as well as the health and safety of students and faculty.
But these are quick recipes that technically cover a wide range of maintenance outcomes.
Maintenance is not limited to keeping aspects of the building performing by
changing out burnt-out lights or replacing faulty gym equipment.

School Maintenance building maintenance is also about:

Encouraging students to attend
Maintaining and accessing new learning outcomes
Reduce equipment replacement costs
Promote student growth and development
Provide accessible spaces for all
Increased structural longevity
Reduce total operational costs
Improve energy efficiency
Make the most of limited resources

While keeping everyone physically safe and protected is of key importance when it comes to building maintenance,
it is also important to provide a suitable environment to facilitate learning.
A classroom with rapidly changing temperatures from a broken window or a faulty heating
and cooling systems can affect student and teacher alertness and even cause health problems.
Regular School Maintenance provides a continual rhythm of checking
and improving learning environments in order to provide settings that support student development
and prioritize attendance, attention, and comfort.

Depending on how long the building itself has been in operation,
ongoing maintenance needs may be higher in order to protect structural longevity and architectural or historical significance.

The average age of US public School Maintenance buildings

A School Maintenance building that is historically significant may have local zoning or building restrictions
and ordinances that must be considered as well, which can make planning any recent renovations and alterations a challenge.
And since many older School Maintenance buildings need regular updates to support modern learning,
this is an issue you can’t avoid planning for. Keeping track of necessary structural updates can be difficult,
but unattended structural issues can not only inhibit learning
but may cause injury to students or faculty and lead to significant liability risks as well.

Young students are at a high risk of accidental injury

To add insult to potential injury, the educational level of the students who are regularly on the property can make everything even more concerning.
A building for preschool or kindergarten-age children, for example, may require more attention, especially if the building is aging rapidly.
Young children will not necessarily know or be able to know what structural risks they should report or avoid.

School Maintenance injury risk by age demographic

Cracked floors or damaged walkways create fall hazards that may be completely overlooked until one day a child trips and breaks a bone.
In nurseries, kindergartens, elementary schools, and even many middle schools,
more maintenance is often required to ensure that playground equipment and classroom assets are fully functional and safe, too.
But even in tertiary education,
you likely have facility assets that need to be kept ahead of regular structural inspections: Things like auditorium bleachers, soccer equipment,
art rooms, and science laboratories all have structures that need maintenance to ensure safety and efficiency.

Preventative maintenance protects the budget as much as it protects the students

No matter the age of your students,
it is ultimately up to you and your team to maintain their well-being while on the property
which is why all aspects of School Maintenance building maintenance are so important.
Planning for odds is the name of the game.
The biggest thing standing in the way of keeping your facility problem free is usually not the age of the building,
required structural changes, or general lack of capacity.
Often School Maintenance is hampered by the lack of adequate planning and staff support.

With this knowledge in mind, management can create protocols for both unforeseen
and planned maintenance needs to help combat common staffing issues and resource shortages.
Going into a clear plan for these imperatives goes a long way in maintaining or securing public trust
and community financial support as well.
A defined maintenance plan divides assets into groups based on time, condition, or data entry.
The plan provides stakeholders with a timeline and evidence that
you are doing all you can to appropriately care for School Maintenance facilities and midwives.
This helps secure more funding and simplifies the maintenance of your School Maintenance building even more over time.

School Maintenance Safety concerns in School Maintenance building maintenance

Maintaining the overall safety of a building includes things like checking walkways for fall hazards,
ensuring accessibility to the building, keeping track of general cleanliness,
and prioritizing hazard prevention.
But it is also advised to regularly assess indoor air quality for health risks such as asbestos,
mold, or other toxic pollutants.
Security management is equally important in maintaining safety across your facilities –
things like making sure security cameras are well-placed to detect suspicious activity
and checking access levels for staff and students.

What does the School Maintenance building maintenance strategy include?

Your School Maintenance building maintenance strategy should include every aspect of maintenance including custodial activities,
grounds management, and preventive and reactive maintenance.
Looking at all of the maintenance sectors across your property before laying out your strategy will help
you get a complete picture of everything that goes into building maintenance so you can start planning accordingly.

Step 1: Planning
🏫 List all stakeholders
As you begin to put together your School Maintenance building maintenance strategy,
it is important to include everyone with a sense of ownership in the decision-making process throughout the facility.
This early collaboration keeps everyone on the same page and helps create clear channels of communication across your operation.

🏅 Define scope and objectives
Once all stakeholders are involved, you can begin to assess the scope of your maintenance needs
and the goals you have for managing them. What areas of your facility need more regular maintenance?
Where could your school be more efficient or make more structural updates?
Ask yourself these types of questions to identify areas of need
and understand the scope of your maintenance operations.

📊 Identify data points to determine success
Work with your team to identify clear signs of success using data points.
For example, if you are looking to reduce water use to a specific unit of measure month after month,
use that unit of measure to understand that you have successfully reduced water use to achieve your goal.
You can do this in each area of maintenance to gauge
how you are working to meet your goals and make necessary adjustments when needed.

💸 Set your budget
Finally, once you have stakeholder participation, defined your scope and goals,
and identified clear indicators of success, you can create an overall budget for your maintenance plans.
Examine the full maintenance scope, any previous maintenance expenses,
and desired schedules for any maintenance goals to help you reach that number.

Step two: check the facilities
After determining the high-level maintenance plan, it’s time to conduct a thorough inspection of the property.
This helps you understand the current state of your maintenance needs so you can plan for preventative maintenance
and make any necessary adjustments to the overall plan.
This is also where you will assess your ground and common space maintenance needs such as lawn care,
garden support, or outdoor utility maintenance.

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Note any property damage and the general quality of the facility during the inspection.
As you move from property and building integrity to asset inspection,
you can create an asset history with any relevant data to help save you and your team time later.
We recommend recording relevant asset information such as:

Brand, model, and serial number
Location, quantity and age
current situation
Repair date
life expectancy
Recommended service notes
From there you can create an overall construction safety and asset longevity estimate to determine what capital expenditures (CAPEX) may be on the horizon.

Step Three: Preventive Maintenance
Then, you will create a Preventive Maintenance (PM) plan based on the results of your audit.
You can use your asset data to understand what your cadence assets need for both scan and regular PM support.
You can perform monthly or annual inspections or preventative maintenance on assets that experience medium-level use or low levels of wear
and tear, for example, while high-use assets can be inspected or serviced weekly.

It depends entirely on the needs of your facility and the assets.

Once you’ve identified the appropriate timeframes for everything, you can create a schedule to clearly track goals and progress.
A clear preventative maintenance schedule also makes maintenance
and inspection tasks easier to increase accountability and easily delegate tasks across departments or divisions.

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