Imagine having visibility into all your building conditions, projects, and compliance levels across your estate with just a few clicks. Where safety, compliance, and resource allocation are no longer time-consuming challenges. This is how a premises management platform should support your educational estate.
What a Modern Premises Management Platform Should Include
The education sector has been underserved for nearly a decade. While familiar brands might seem to offer the full package, they’re quickly becoming outdated – clunky, time-consuming, and resource-hungry. These old systems, often 15-20 years old, end up being more of a hindrance than a help. Manually creating a report based on another report? It's tedious.
On top of that, they make it hard to ensure you always have the best system in place, as they lock you in for 3 to 5 years, and getting everyone on board can take up to 12 months.
A modern premises management platform should offer seamlessly integrated modules developed together, not bolted on as afterthoughts. From compliance modules to innovative tools, it should include a strategic survey module and capital programme manager that provides fully automated reporting with just a few clicks.
A robust premises management platform should at least include:
- Statutory Testing and PPM modules to assist site managers and SLTs to
efficiently manage, monitor and record premises compliance.
- A Multi-layer Helpdesk to direct and record information, questions, works
requests and more. It should be able to communicate directly between schools, building consultants, diocese, trusts, local authorities, contractors etc.
- A Capital Programme Manager that creates and manages capital funding programmes, funding streams and capital projects.
- A Survey Tool to allow building consultants to quickly and objectively assess
condition, suitability, and sufficiency automatically prioritising required
projects against operational need.
- An Asset Manager that registers and keeps track of fixed and portable assets, IT equipment, plant etc.
- A Document Manager to centralise and quickly organise, store and retrieve
documents imported into the system.
- A Contractor Database of recommended and vetted organisations, ensuring
everyone working on your premises is safe and competent.
- A Project Manager tool enabling schools to safely self-manage smaller projects.
Ease of Transition
The thought of switching seems daunting? It might be because of past resistance when trying to get everyone on board with a system that is already outdated.
Choose one that is straightforward, perhaps with no more than a few stages to get the whole trust using it. Those with self-guiding modules should be favoured, as it makes it easy for your entire team to switch in just weeks.
More Than Just Software
You don't want just another software provider.
Partner with one that is more than just software and provides complimentary expert-led services at no additional cost. The goal should be for no more manual reporting. No more guesswork. Just clear, automated insights that help you make informed decisions.
Step into the Future
Ready to step into the future of premises management without the headache of a lengthy implementation? Transform your school or trust quickly, easily, and effectively with a platform that meets all these needs.
Statlog - The complete solution for premises management, trusted by educational establishments.