Facilities Maintenance is the backbone of reliable building operations, covering the strategies and practices used to keep equipment, systems, and infrastructure functioning safely and efficiently. As facilities grow more complex, relying on reactive repairs alone leads to higher costs, unplanned downtime, and shortened asset life — making structured maintenance planning essential to sound facilities management.

To address this challenge, the Facilities Maintenance Management training course, offered by The British Academy for Training and Development, equips facilities and maintenance professionals with the knowledge to apply preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and reliability-centred approaches across their operations. The course also introduces the role of CMMS platforms in organizing, tracking, and optimizing maintenance work.

Through a practical, systems-based approach, participants learn how to reduce equipment failures, extend asset life, and build maintenance programs that support long-term operational reliability.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core principles of Facilities Maintenance and its role in building performance.
• Design and implement preventive maintenance schedules based on manufacturer and operational requirements.
• Apply predictive maintenance techniques using condition monitoring and diagnostic data.
• Understand the fundamentals of reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) and how to apply them in practice.
• Use CMMS systems to plan, track, and analyze maintenance activities.
• Develop effective maintenance planning strategies that balance cost, risk, and asset performance.
• Measure and improve equipment reliability through data-driven decision-making.

Target Group

• Facilities and maintenance managers
• Maintenance planners and schedulers
• Reliability and asset engineers
• Building engineers and technical supervisors
• Operations managers responsible for equipment uptime

Introduction to Facilities Maintenance Management

• Defining facilities maintenance and its strategic importance
• The cost of reactive maintenance versus planned approaches
• Overview of maintenance strategies: reactive, preventive, predictive, and reliability-centred

Preventive Maintenance

• Building preventive maintenance schedules and checklists
• Setting maintenance intervals based on manufacturer guidelines
• Balancing preventive maintenance costs against failure risks

Predictive Maintenance

• Condition monitoring techniques and diagnostic tools
• Interpreting data to predict equipment failure before it occurs
• Integrating predictive maintenance with existing maintenance programs

Reliability-Centred Maintenance

• Core principles of reliability-centred maintenance (RCM)
• Failure mode and criticality analysis
• Selecting the right maintenance strategy for each asset type

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

• Structuring maintenance planning around operational priorities
• Coordinating labor, spare parts, and equipment downtime
• Balancing planned maintenance with emergency response capacity

CMMS and Maintenance Data Management

• Core functions of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
• Tracking work orders, maintenance history, and asset performance
• Using maintenance data to support continuous improvement and reliability