Guides

Clear guidance for managing your facilities

Practical guidance for building managers: from preparing a maintenance plan to evaluating a proposal and making sense of an operational report.

Resources for better decisions and building operations

Fundamentals

What is facility management and what does it include?

Understand facility management, how it differs from maintenance and what to define when contracting services to manage a building’s facilities.

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Planning

Preventive and corrective maintenance: the differences

Understand preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance through building examples and practical criteria for organizing a maintenance plan.

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Planning

How to prepare a building maintenance plan

Organize assets, criticality, tasks, frequencies and responsibilities in a preventive maintenance plan for buildings in CABA and Greater Buenos Aires.

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Contracting

How to request and compare building maintenance quotes

Learn what determines building maintenance costs and how to compare service fees, materials, staffing and corrective support on an equivalent scope.

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Contracting

How to choose a facility management company

Evaluate a facility management provider’s scope, team, reporting, responsibilities and service terms for your facility in CABA and Greater Buenos Aires.

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Asset Management

Maintenance indicators for managing a building

Track preventive maintenance completion, incidents, response times and building maintenance costs using consistent, comparable measurement criteria.

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HVAC

A checklist for organizing HVAC maintenance

An HVAC checklist for building managers: download an assessment worksheet, prepare your maintenance brief and request an assessment from URBANARC.

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Let’s discuss your building’s needs

We assess corporate, commercial and industrial facilities in CABA and Greater Buenos Aires to define a clear service scope.