{"id":73766,"date":"2020-03-24T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T12:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=73766"},"modified":"2020-03-24T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T12:57:17","slug":"building-management-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/building-management-guidance\/73766\/","title":{"rendered":"BESA releases building management guidance amid coronavirus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Building maintenance moves into uncharted territory as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-sites-lockdown\/73725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a> continues, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebesa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building Engineering Services Association<\/a> (BESA) has moved to support the construction industry by releasing detailed guidance on building management<\/h2>\n<p>With thousands of people now working from home or prevented from travelling, many commercial buildings are moving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-sites-lockdown\/73725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">into shutdown mode<\/a>. This has huge implications for building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/builders-merchants-covid-19\/73747\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">services equipment<\/a> with decisions that would normally have been planned over many months now having to be taken within days.<\/p>\n<p>Owners, landlords and tenants will still need to maintain their buildings for security purposes; to achieve statutory compliance, and to protect the fabric and critical systems as well as satisfying any insurance implications.<\/p>\n<h3>Mothballing and reactivation<\/h3>\n<p>Thousands of UK buildings are already maintained in line with the industry\u2019s standard SFG20, which was created by BESA and is continually updated to reflect changing technical and regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Its planned maintenance strategies would continue to keep buildings safe and compliant through this period, but some organisations may decide to\u00a0\u2018mothball\u2019 their building or\u00a0at least reduce their maintenance regime to a low level.<\/p>\n<p>Full closure and shutdown is a\u00a0long-term\u00a0action that would make it difficult to get the building up and running again quickly when the crisis recedes.<\/p>\n<h3>SFG20\u2019s sister standard: SFG30<\/h3>\n<p>Elements of the building may also be needed to support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/construction-work-from-home\/73470\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">staff working from home<\/a>, such as server rooms, and this brings SFG20\u2019s sister standard, the recently updated and relaunched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebesa.com\/knowledge\/shop\/products\/sfg-30-maintenance-task-schedules-mothballing-and-reactivation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFG30 \u2018Mothballing and Reactivation\u2019<\/a>\u00a0into play.<\/p>\n<p>SFG30 takes users through a step-by-step process for maintaining critical services during this low occupancy period ready for rapid and full reactivation when business returns to normal.<\/p>\n<p>This includes key elements such as keeping water systems safe and healthy (in line with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/legionnaires\/what-you-must-do.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health &amp; Safety Executive\u2019s L8 rules<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/legionella-management-contract\/73092\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legionella control<\/a>); both active and passive fire protection systems; safe handling of refrigerant gases; electrical and gas service safety checks and ventilation hygiene. It also explains how to maintain security systems and lifts if they are still in service among many other factors.<\/p>\n<p>The crucial information in SFG20 and SFG30 will be more essential than ever to get buildings safely through this critical period. Therefore, BESA has decided to make SFG30 guidance\u00a0free of charge\u00a0to members until further notice and has reduced the price for everyone else by 50%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has moved to support the construction industry by releasing detailed guidance on building management through the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[724,712,13038,429,676,54592,742,432,753],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-building-control-news","7":"tag-asset-management","8":"tag-besa","9":"tag-building","10":"tag-building-control","11":"tag-construction","12":"tag-coronavirus","13":"tag-facilities-management","14":"tag-health-safety","15":"tag-safety"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BESA releases building management guidance amid coronavirus crisis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The BESA has moved to support the construction industry by releasing detailed guidance on building management through the outbreak\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/building-management-guidance\/73766\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BESA releases building management guidance amid coronavirus crisis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has moved quickly to support the construction industry by releasing detailed guidance on building management through the outbreak.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/building-management-guidance\/73766\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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