A Critical Environment encompasses physical spaces and services integral to the safety and operational necessities of a facility. Typically, this includes vital infrastructures like Airports, Hyperscale Data Centers, Mobile Communication Switching Centers, and Pharmaceutical units. Managing such environments demands a deep comprehension of potential system failures’ impact on these facilities.

Key Elements of Critical Environment Management Services

1. Critical Asset Assessment: Evaluating asset criticality.
2. Building System Reliability: Assessing and ensuring a reliable system supporting Critical Assets.
3. System Maintainability: Assessing and ensuring availability and maintainability of the building systems and sub-systems.
4. Asset Maintenance: Reliability-centred maintenance for consistent reliable service delivery.

Engagement Approaches with Stakeholders

Service partners engage with Property Owners and stakeholders based on:

1. Shared Risk & Equity Model
2. Fixed Lump Sum Contracts
3. Cost-Plus Contracts for Resource Supply

Risk and Emergency Management

• Conducting risk assessments and developing mitigation plans.
• Defining service and asset criticality.
• Implementing proactive and predictive maintenance.
• Documenting maintenance processes for normal, emergency, and failure situations.
• Establishing a comprehensive emergency response program in consultation with stakeholders.

Environment Management

• Implementing an environment-friendly maintenance strategy.
• Tracking key performance indicators for environmental parameters.
• Baselining, setting improvement targets, and benchmarking continual environmental enhancements.

Cost Management

• Deploying life cycle cost modelling for infrastructure systems.
• Considering end-of-life management for systems equipment and components.
• Assessing cost impacts of risk mitigation, reliability enhancement, and future resource provisioning.

Effective management of a Critical Environment involves strategic planning, meticulous risk assessment, proactive maintenance, and a commitment to environmental sustainability and cost efficiency.

Typical Condition Assessment Program for Building Service Systems