Audit Services for the Property Owners and Occupiers

Medron Technical Auditing Services for Property Owners and Occupiers.

Business Resilience Audit

Business Continuity Management is a key aspect of good corporate governance, in identifying and managing risks to business critical services.

Medron provide independent auditing of building services infrastructure, building fabric and their utilities, assessing their resilience to external disruption from events such as power outages, natural disasters and terrorism.

This data is invaluable to operational risk management under the Basel 2 Accord, in contributing to effective risk mitigation and recovery planning.

Statutory Compliance Audit

Companies are increasingly subject to greater statutory regulation where the penalties for failure can be harsh and result in prosecution and damage to image and reputation

Effective corporate governance encourages independent assessment of legislative compliance, and Medron can provide assessments of building fabric and technical services legislative compliance.

This is particularly valuable where matters of statutory compliance are contracted to service providers (for example, in a building maintenance contract) but where the service purchaser company (as occupiers and employers) nevertheless remains legally liable for compliance.

Environmental Infrastructure Audit

This is an assessment of the “fitness for purpose” of mechanical and electrical services, building fabric, the interface with essential services, life safety provisions and interaction with the surrounding environment.

Medron benchmarks against corporate policy and industry best practice, advises on Health and Safety non-compliance and can recommend short-term remedial action.

Checking the resilience of the immediate and surrounding environmental infrastructure is key in the mitigation of risk, particularly for IT dependent companies in the financial service sector.

Future Proofing Assessment

This assessment examines the ability of the property to provide a suitable and sustainable environment for future anticipated business needs.

Medron works closely with the client to ensure that property and infrastructure investment is targeted effectively, and that the building fabric and utilities services are sufficiently adaptable to respond to the future physical requirements of the business.

Life Cycle Costing Expenditure Audit

A Life Cycle Costing Expenditure Audit appraises the future level of investment required for the fabric of a building, plant or services over a specific period of time.

This includes expenditure for the replacement of key building elements, for maintenance and for the scheduling of capital expenditure over the lifespan of a building or lease.

Auditing tests the client's or outsourced service provider’s assessment of the property and allows service purchasers to take a considered, reasoned approach to future development in order to protect investment.

Planned Preventative Maintenance Assessment

This audit examines asset registers, inspection and servicing methodologies, scheduling, records and the overall Planned Preventative Maintenance process, to help minimise the risk of failure in essential plant or machinery.

This audit is particularly useful in validating outsourced Planned Preventative Maintenance contract compliance from a third party service provider, in demonstrating value for money of the contract.

Corrective/re-active maintenance and condition-based maintenance strategies can also be tested by this type of audit.

Hard FM Overview Audit

This concerns the essential maintenance requirements of a building e.g. the heating and electrical services, health and safety regulation compliance, fabric maintenance etc.

Medron provides an independent professional overview of the condition of a building in relation to statutory obligation, good industry practice or third party contractual agreement, to establish whether the premises can continue providing a safe working environment supporting business core purpose.