ScenarioYou work as an Assistant Surveyor for a firm of Chartered Surveyors.Your client owns and operates six wedding and conference venues across the North of England. Your client has recently purchased Broadwood Manor with a view to refurbishing it and adding it to their portfolio of venues. Although not listed, the client has been advised that Broadwood Manor is a worthy investment as the architectural styling and heritage value of the building can be used as a marketing benefit. In considering the feasibility of their project, your client is now seeking advice to identify issues that need to be addressed to establish an appropriate maintenance strategy for Broadwood Manor.Your client has previously managed their properties on the basis of a reactive approach to maintenance, spending money as and when issues have arisen. Their experience of this has led to difficulties budgeting for maintenance and presented them with some unexpected management issues when critical elements have failed. Also their other properties have not been of historical merit, and the properties are relatively new. Therefore Broadwood Manor is different to the rest of their portfolio hence a different approach is required with regard to maintenance.
TaskWrite a report advising your client on how to create an effective maintenance strategy that would help to reduce operating expenditure. Your report shall:•make the case for providing and reviewing a planned maintenance strategy; •advise on the nature of the data needed for prioritising maintenance spending and how to best obtain this; •discuss issues relating to the maintenance of historic buildings, making reference to the specifics of Broadwood Manor. Keep in mind this client has never managed a building which is of historical interest before;•advise on the benefits of establishing a maintenance department that could also be used to manage their other properties.•Include any other information required to meet your client’s aims
