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Intuita Financial & Contract Management Construction Software

Facilities Management Solutions

Increasingly, construction companies are interested in managing the building or structure once it has been completed. This is a relatively new phenomenon born out of significant cultural change in the UK construction industry brought about by innovations such as private finance initiatives or PFI. Also, more 'watertight building contracts contain stringent performance criteria and penalty clauses. Nowadays it can be very expensive indeed to let a client down, and of course, the UK construction industry is no stranger to litigation.

In the past, particularly large-scale construction projects frequently over-ran time-schedules and budgets and the client picked up the bill. Litigation was common and in the case of public sector activity the community charge payer of tax payer ended up paying the extra. Private sector clients, such as retailers, want their investment to be commercially productive on time every time. Such are the pressures on the construction industry in the 21st Century.

Committed to the building lifecycle

A typical construction company is now much more interested in the complete life cycle of the building over a 10, 25 or even 50 year basis - for its planned useful life. This is a very significant sea-change from when a building was handed over to its new owners, snagging took place over a strictly limited period, the builder took the money and that was the end of the story. The building contractor moved on to the next project.

Now it is important to know how the building was constructed in the first place, to minimise the cost impact of scheduled routine maintenance and regular refurbishment programmes. In addition, there is the day to day routine of servicing a building from the point of view of ensuring all routine maintenance functions operate seamlessly - electrical, plumbing and security infrastructures including consumables such as provision of soap in toilets.

Larger companies including some of our clients, for example AMEC, Carillion and Skanska, now see themselves as providing a total building service in the broadest sense with the construction of the building merely an early production stage in the building's life cycle. Companies of this calibre are choosing the business option of committing to management of a building from inception to its demolition.

Facilities management companies

Managing fully operational buildings in the medium to long term has become big business. The rise of service companies such as Bruntwood and Regus, who own and manage buildings for their tenants benefit, has given real impetus to the development of estate management or facilities management-type IT solutions such as offered by Intuita.

Intuita provides the right solution

Keeping pace with the demands on the construction industry, Intuita's package provides a building facilities management solution designed to underpin the business processes associated with long-term estate management. Intuita has partnered with one of the leading players in this market, Prolog Systems Ltd, whose product, Metrix, has been integrated with our Intuita product.