Webinars
Thurs, Dec 4, 2025 | 12:00-1:00 PM
(UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Understanding your internal capabilities and preventive maintenance requirements is essential to designing an effective support services program. The process should be deliberate, using internal data to shape a program that aligns with your facility’s needs and available resources. The first step is to develop a comprehensive inventory of everything that needs to be maintained, whether handled by your team or outsourced. This inventory provides visibility into the time and effort required for each function.
In this webinar, Bob Anderson, Facility Management Consultant at Roth IAMS, will guide you through the key design considerations for creating a resource plan to determine the number of hours required for each trade. This analysis can then be compared against the resources currently available internally. Based on factors such as labor availability, training costs, and the risk of losing trained talent, an internal plan can be developed to either “make” the resources capable of performing the work or “buy” the expertise through subcontracting. This process is dynamic and may shift back and forth over time based upon loss of trained resources, but clearly identifying what is needed to maintain your inventory is the foundation of a sound plan.
Remember that you decide what tasks to “make or buy”. This is your program, not the subcontractors. Both internal resources and outsourced service providers are held accountable for the tasks assigned. You maintain control over your assets.
Presenter
Manager, Facility Management Consulting