Role of a building manager in minimising costs

While a building manager may seem like an extra expense, they can help you minimise costs in the medium to long term.

Onsite building managers are there to monitor, enhance protect your investment; the building is their business. A building management role is multi-faceted and the cost of employing a single building manager can be significantly less than contracting individual roles simultaneously.

So, what do building managers do? In a snapshot, they’re responsible for making sure all communal areas of the block are kept in good order – things like maintaining garden and recreational areas, ensuring communal lighting is working, maintaining lifts and stairways, maintaining carparks, ensuring foyers are kept clean, arranging repairs and maintenance on foyer and carpark doors, ensuring move-ins and move-outs are done according to protocols and without disrupting residents – and the list goes on. An effective building manager will have a team of people around them that can deal with any issue and meet whatever needs might arise.

Having a building manager removes hassles and saves time for strata managers and owners corporations. It means:

• lower repair costs: our building managers have previously established relationships with tradespeople and contractors. It’s also their job to ensure contractors are providing good value for money.

• peace of mind: our building managers are in charge of organising maintenance and repairs, and ensuring they’re completed swiftly, effectively and to a high standard while causing minimal disruption to owners and tenants. They also manage preventative maintenance activities to extend the life of assets, increase productivity, improve overall efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. It’s more cost-effective than costly reactive repairs.

What can you expect from a BMAUS building manager?

• Increased security measures
• Health and safety compliance
• They undertake regular inspections of common areas to ensure they’re maintained to a high standard
• They source and manage professional maintenance staff, tradespeople and contractors
• They know the ‘ins and outs’ of the building, with a focus on having it operate at its peak at all times
• They realise efficiencies and cost savings through our procurement initiatives
  Budgeting
• They understand the intricate daily management of a building
  They have a sharp focus on building and fire safety, and procurement efficiencies
  They use start-of-the-art technology to assist with managing a building effectively