How SFG20 streamlines maintenance activity

For those that may not be familiar with SFG20, it is the industry standard for building maintenance specification, with an extensive library of schedules covering more than 70 different asset types, plus the fabric of the building itself. It was created in 1990 in response to the need for a standard that would drive legal compliance, and is used by organisations in a wide range of sectors — including healthcare, education, government, retail, residential, and many more — to ensure safe, legal and competent building maintenance. The system enables users to access asset-specific compliant maintenance schedules that 'plug into' their maintenance plans or Computer-Aided Facility Management system. These maintenance schedules can be used to considerably shortcut the research part of drafting compliant Planned Preventative Maintenance schedules.

Each schedule comprises asset-specific tasks that instruct the user on what action to take, when to do it, how long each task is likely to take, and the skillset required to carry out each job. Users simply need to upload their asset register into SFG20's software solution, Facilities-iQ, and the software then maps the relevant maintenance schedules to their assets.

The resulting maintenance plan is then extracted to their CAFM via an API (Application Programming Interface) that provides a seamless data exchange, consolidating their workflow down into a single software solution.