How sds FM can make your business more productive and environmentally friendly?
Most facilities managers have three aspects uppermost in their priorities: The question of your company's use of energy and the environment in general has never been more pertinent. Every storage cupboard or filing cabinet is heated or cooled and the area lit, which is unnecessarily using energy, and potentially harming the environment. Minimizing your impact on the environment can be an excellent example of your social responsibility.

The impact on cost of a single employee desk is variable, related to geographical location, style of job role and the services provided, but all of these factors nevertheless have an impact on your company’s bottom line. Being able to reduce the company's physical footprint of desk and storage space will reduce the environmental impact made by the company. Providing access to documents electronically over the internet could encourage flexible or home working which will further reduce the impact made by travelling employees.

Energy rating and certification is now a leading driver that our company Asbuilt Energy can bring to your table.
Minimizing or eradicating the potential interruptions to access of records is key to ensuring your business can continue, no matter what is thrown at it. Having records stored electronically on multiple secure servers will enable access by authorized personnel to those critical records the business needs in order to function. Starting with any time and anywhere access to records is the key to reducing your company's functional reliance on a specific building.
The cost of energy is becoming even more critical to a company's performance. Understanding how the energy is used is important and where it wasted is key. Facilities managers making a comparison between the cost of; heating, lighting, cooling and ventilation storage space and digitising the stored records will be surprised to realise the rapid return on investment digitising can bring the bottom line. Add to that the real estate costs of saving the storage space can make the decision to involve sds FM a winning solution.

The start point to running a building efficiently is robust, reliable and easily used building documentation. We meet so many frustrated FMs who spend time and effort researching paper records to find suppliers, maintenance schedules and repair solutions. Converting your records to Asbuilt Building Documentation solutions will give you a searchable database of records, by specifying Asbuilt in any new or refurbished building will give you the solution on day one. Involving sds FM can be a win win win solution for you...


The team at sds FM has more than twenty years of experience in producing solutions for facilities managers, across three continents, and in fields as diverse as oil exploration, military camps, public schools, and offices of FT100 companies. SDS FM is also a member of the Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA), and as such has access to all publications and authoritative advice in the field of building services.

With our knowledge and experience we can advise you what should be stored and made available to improve your department’s service delivery. Having an electronic storage database will enable your team to have access to what they need, any time and anywhere.