
Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) Survey
What is a Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) Survey
A Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) survey, also known as a Lifecycle survey, involves a comprehensive assessment of a building’s condition, which includes both fabric and mechanical and electrical (M&E) elements.
These surveys are crucial for building owners and occupiers. It helps identify potential issues before they become critical, allowing for proactive maintenance and repairs, that maximise the asset’s lifespan. Additionally, they assist in formulating investment strategies that outline necessary works, indicative costs and timing for repairs or replacements.
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Why choose Sircle?
At Sircle, our Building Surveying team have the experience to ensure a detailed PPM survey is undertaken. We will guide our clients through the survey process and present the output so the information can be used most effectively.
Sircle also has effective bespoke report and data dashboard outputs, allowing our clients to access the information they require quickly and in a user-friendly format. We will also use our developed interconnected imagery to ensure our clients understand the true descriptive maintenance items.
The Benefits of a PPM survey
- Improved Financial Planning
PPM surveys allow property managers to forecast future maintenance costs, helping to allocate budgets more effectively and avoid sudden, high-cost repairs. - Extended Asset Lifespan
Timely identification and resolution of wear and tear help delay costly replacements and preserve the value of building components over the long term. - Enhanced Operational Reliability
By ensuring regular upkeep of equipment and infrastructure, PPM surveys minimise unexpected breakdowns and disruptions to business operations. - Informed Maintenance Prioritisation
PPM surveys provide a clear, risk-based overview of asset conditions, enabling maintenance tasks to be prioritised according to urgency and potential impact.
Sircle at Work
In this video, learn how the PPM surveys we carried out at WWT gave them the insight needed to clearly forecast their budgets for the next five years.

Example of a PPM Dashboard Report
Data includes the breakdown of the indicative inclusive costs for each year to address the condition-related matters set out within the report.

PPM Survey at WWT Washington
A photo taken during a recent PPM survey at WWT Washington.

PPM Survey at WWT Washington
Here is another photo that was taken during a PPM survey at WWT Washington- a really beautiful place.
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Who should consider a PPM/ Lifecycle survey?
This service is ideal for property owners, facility managers, commercial landlords, and organisations responsible for maintaining buildings, infrastructure, and equipment.
