Today’s demanding economic and commercial climate has created a scenario in which business premises are often in use 24 hours a day. This demand places maximum demands on IT and communication resources in terms of energy supply, security, climate control — and includes building maintenance and cleaning facilities. Facilities management optimises these support processes, harnessing state-of-the-art management methods.
SSI has been part of the facilities management revolution since 1993, when we were contracted to provide maintenance management for two South African Defence Force installations and two computer rooms linked to remote terminal sites elsewhere in South Africa.
Today SSI provides a comprehensive range of facility management services, from strategic level through tactical, to operational level. Our methodology ensures a well-defined (and described) process/control philosophy and generates contract documents for buying products and services. Included in this methodology are well-defined service level agreements and measurement criteria
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Other advisory services include:
• Compiling asset registers
• Drawing and documentation control
• Facility audits
• Reporting
• Benchmarking
• Short, medium and long term maintenance budgets
• Facility management at a strategic level on behalf of the parent company
SSI also assists with implementing computer-aided facilities management based on specially designed programming solutions — including a survey of the information streams and mapping the client’s information needs.
SSI also has the experience of DHV, their Dutch shareholder, on tap on a multitude of projects: Universities, Technikons, Government Housing Estates, Industrial Facilities (Philips), Roads and Bridges, etc
PROJECTS
Operational facilities manager on various buildings of Old Mutual Properties
Lender’s advisor for the Kutamo-Sinthumule Prison (Louis Trichardt), a Public Private Partnership
Lender’s advisor for Department of Education’s new head office, a Public Private Partnership
Facilities management advisor to the Gauteng Provincial Department for new precinct development of 150 000 m² in the Johannesburg CBD
Adviser to Gauteng Provincial Department (Health) on the facility management structure for the new Academic Hospital in Pretoria
Contact:
SF van der Linde
Tel : (012) 367-5811
Email: sfvdl@ssi.co.za
