Leeds City College: ongoing maintenance

Following our success maintaining air conditioning systems, we won the tender to manage the entire estate’s I.T. equipment and proposed to deliver an MEP strategy that would provide consistency, be fully compliant, highlight the lifespan of equipment so precise budgeting could take place and reduce the need for emergency call outs.

Leeds City College wanted to raise the standard of its planned maintenance and compliance across its large 9-site estate in order to set standards befitting of a public building offering higher education.

Ensuring the maintenance of the I.T. rooms at Leeds City College is paramount given the amount of reliance on technology for everyday teaching and learning.

To enable the MEP equipment to operate at its most efficient and be as reliable as possible, we introduced a comprehensive asset register to demonstrate to the college what its estate looked like in terms of equipment from power to cooling.

Alongside this, we highlighted the tests (F-Gas, TM44, R22 and R407) and certifications that were needed to make sure it operated at its best but also so it would comply with industry and legal standards.

In addition to the asset register, we audited the estate’s MEP to highlight where efficiencies could be made.

Our work resulted in the college having full visibility of its maintenance requirements, asset lifecycles and their current conditions.

This allows the college to budget for new equipment, procure more efficiently and keep it working efficiently all of the time.

The regime we introduced has significantly reduced the number of failures and therefore emergency call outs.

Our success and relationship with the college saw us appointed in 2020 to manage its new £60 million Quarry Hill campus.