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Past Projects
DERA & DSTL
Stanburys were appointed in 1999 to build and implement an Estates Management Information System, known as EMIS, for the Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA).
The DERA EMIS system now extends nation-wide and holds data for over 3,000 buildings and 10.5 million square feet of space. Through a secure high speed network 30+ supported users manage a wide property base spread over 60 major sites.
The sheer scale of space and the current user base demonstrates the impressive power and speed of the System. The Defence Estate Program is possibly the largest estate management system world-wide.
London Underground
One of the key modules in FACTMAN (Stanburys facilities management sofware) is the cable tracking application. This is essentially graphical asset data management applied to cabling. In response to an urgent requirement from London Underground, Stanburys were appointed to graphically track all the newly installed control cabling throughout the Underground tunnel network between a sample of 6 stations.
BAA
BAA was the first major company to employ Stanburys' unique cable tracking module, CABMAN, to track all power cabling in Heathrow Airport's largest terminal (One). Handling more passengers than all the other terminals put together, terminal One had a major problem with cable management. Constant upgrading and churn traditionally had created a legacy of redundant cables abandoned throughout the building.
The cycle of development and change had continued for years at a pace unheard of in conventional property management, some 10% per annum on average. This created a problem in asset management where change management was unable to cope with the pace and records were compromised. BAA needed to identify redundant and live cables to effect better management and to be able to remove or redirect redundant circuits. Hundreds of Tonnes of cable, taking up valuable space and of substantial scrap value, had to be identified. Viable circuits need to be mapped accurately for maintenance and health and safety purposes.
London School of Economics
Previously The London School of Economics had aged floor plans from old construction drawings or dated partial surveys. Stanburys were able to redevelop and create current floor plans quickly and economically using "state-of-the-art", laser survey technology. These floor plans were captured on handheld devices, completed on CAD workstations and all data is now maintained using Stanburys' own in-house EMIS software. EMIS is the leading Object Oriented CAD Application for estate and facilities management.
The LSE EMIS system has stored data for over 100 buildings and 1 million square feet of space located in and around Central London. This provides the university with a unique and powerful tool enabling them to manage their assets by determining floor space, occupancy, room types, utilisation, revenue expense, lease or tenant data in a real-time environment. This has revolutionised the use and financial management of their property.
Royal Mail
Large Property portfolios are mammoth collections of data and prominently error prone both in financial terms and in extent of facilities. The Royal Mail, managing some 2,700 properties, recognised the potential of the IS tools offered through Stanburys FACTMAN Software. The Royal Mail appointed Stanburys to conduct a pilot study on one of their seven regions, in an exercise to determine the actual scope of the facilities and the scale of utilisation errors. This exercise entailed the sampling of a selected group of buildings taken from the Region and creating the Object Oriented Space footprint drawings, which automatically created internal area data for every space.
The Royal Mail found they had underestimates for their property capacity by up to 30% despite several previous conventional surveys.
Channel Tunnel
Stanburys were appointed Building Services Quantity Surveyors for the Folkestone Terminal for TML, the Channel Tunnel Consortium Constructors, in 1990. Stanburys introduced their innovative Computerised Bills of Quantities, seen as a precursor to digital Asset Management. The digital Bills enabled rapid bid assessment, variation analysis and creation of a valuable property legacy database, ideal for subsequent Property Financial Management and development into a real-time asset register.
Subsequently, Stanburys successfully secured the Contract to provide the Planned Preventative Maintenance System, utilising the newly developed FACTMAN suite of software modules. This included a powerful PPM tool but also offered Asset Management, Cable Tracking, Drawing Management and Furniture or Equipment Management modules, among others. The Folkestone Terminal included some 96 buildings and extensive facilities. This valuable order, regrettably, was never completed due to Eurotunnel's economic problems.