A unique and specialist approach to the education sector.
Campus Facilities Management is the cyclical maintenance of extensive university estates, ranging from historic listed buildings to modern student accommodation. It requires a term-time sensitive schedule, ensuring major high-level works—such as roof repairs and gutter clearance—are executed during holidays to guarantee student safety and minimise academic disruption.
Safety First: Working Around the Academic Calendar We schedule the risk around your timetable. Universities function like small cities, with high footfall and vulnerable populations. You cannot close a campus to clean a roof. NSS operates a “Term-Time Protocol.” We schedule invasive works (like heavy machinery access) for holidays and reading weeks. During term time, we focus on low-impact reactive maintenance, ensuring lectures and exams proceed without noise or distraction.
Safeguarding & Compliance Specifications
Trust signals in education revolve around safeguarding and asset safety.
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DBS Checked Staff: All operatives working near student accommodation or sensitive research facilities are DBS vetted, ensuring safeguarding compliance.
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Historic Building Care: We have specific expertise in maintaining Grade I and II listed structures often found on older campuses, using non-invasive access methods.
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Accommodation Safety: We provide rapid response for student halls, fixing leaks and glazing issues within agreed SLAs to protect student welfare.
Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) Campus PPM is the proactive scheduling of maintenance tasks to prevent asset failure. On a sprawling estate, reactive fixing is too costly.
NSS Strategy: We implement data-led gutter cleaning and roof inspections before the autumn leaf-fall and winter storms. By clearing siphonic drainage systems preemptively, we prevent lecture theatre floods and protect library archives from water damage.
Core Education Services
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Heritage Cleaning: Sensitive stone cleaning for historic campus buildings.
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Gutter Clearance: Campus-wide contracts to prevent water ingress in libraries and labs.
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Lighting Maintenance: High-level bulb replacement in sports halls and atriums.
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Compliance Testing: Fall protection testing for maintenance walkways and roof access.
