A facility is any publicly or privately owned building used for a certain purpose. To ensure that you get maximum services from it, you must take care of it through regular maintenance.

Facility Maintenance offers you several benefits. First and the foremost is longer facility life span. By maintaining your facility regularly, you can rectify problems early and keep it in working order for much longer time. This helps you immensely in saving money, since a Facility is usually expensive to build. The other accompanied benefits are low operating expenses and maximum space utilization.

In case you are already a part of any facility team or planning to build your own facility in the future, Facility Maintenance is very important. To prevent any major problems in the future, you can prepare a checklist of components that need to be checked regularly.

The most critical issue in Facility Maintenance is security, especially at times of emergency like fire or any other catastrophe. All security components, like alarm systems, water sprinkler systems, fire extinguishers and so forth, need to be checked every quarter to ensure they are in good working condition. One must also check that all exits are easily accessible without any major hindrance.

To ensure smooth passage in corridors and rooms, you can check the lighting system every month and replace fused bulbs and tube lights. Besides this, you can also ensure that all the cracks and joints in the floors are fixed with good quality fillers. One must also grease doors and dock levelers once a year, to make their rolling smooth.

Electric Systems is another area of concern. One must check electric systems annually for capacity and proper grounding, since these are difficult to change later. We also advise you to check exhausts, fans, motors and belts every six months, and lubricate them to ensure they are in good working condition.

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