WAT 9203 LTL Facilities Landscape 2024 FV - Flipbook - Page 12
12 | REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE
WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF REPAIRS
AND MAINTENANCE WORK?
%
%
36
OF FMS REGULARLY GO OVER
BUDGET ON URGENT REPAIR
WORK TO REMOVE HAZARDS
28
DON’T REGULARLY
EXPERIENCE LOST DAYS AND
DOWNTIME DUE TO REPAIR
AND MAINTENANCE JOBS
13
IN
HAVE TO COMPLETE MORE
MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR
JOBS WHEN THE WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE BAD
Yet, more than 80% admitted they were not sure how many days of downtime
their facility has per year due to maintenance work.
This suggests that although FMs are regularly
Despite these challenges, the level of support for the
experiencing lost days, they may not be thinking
facilities management sector has grown over the past
beyond the job at hand, or how the facility is being
12 months, with almost half of FMs (43%) agreeing
disrupted as the days mount up each year when repair
that the size of their maintenance team has grown
and maintenance work is not tackled ef昀椀ciently.
and 38% have more staff to undertake repairs and
general maintenance within the team.
EXPERT VIEW
“It’s really positive to see that teams are growing and FMs are getting more resource to tackle
repair jobs. We’ve seen numerous calls across sectors in the past 12 months for maintenance
backlogs to be cleared in order to keep buildings and facilities safe, so the extra support will
help to ease the strain on already-stretched FM professionals.”
Chris Budd, Sales Director at Watco UK
