Facilities management in Brighouse

Facilities management in Brighouse at a glance

Brighouse mixes a busy independent shopping centre on Commercial Street with canalside apartment conversions and a long belt of factories and warehouses running east towards junction 25 of the M62. Brighouse is inside our West Yorkshire patch and is served with regular scheduled visits from Leeds. A site visit comes before any figure. We need to see the floors, the glazing, the yard and the bin store, and hear how the building is used, before writing a specification for it.

Brighouse (HD6): the local picture

Brighouse town centre runs along Commercial Street, Bethel Street and Briggate, with a strong set of independent shops and a supermarket by the canal. Former mills beside the Calder and Hebble Navigation, including Mill Royd, have been converted to apartments. Armytage Road Industrial Estate stretches east with factories, warehouses and trade counters, and Wakefield Road leads on to junction 25 of the M62 at Clifton.

Apartment conversions need communal cleaning done properly: entrance halls, stairs, lifts, bin stores and car parks. Managing agents also want windows in shared areas washed and grounds kept neat. Industrial occupiers on Armytage Road need offices and welfare areas cleaned and waste removed without disrupting production. Shops in the centre host regular markets and events, so frontages and pavements outside doors need more frequent attention.

Canalside buildings face damp and vegetation growth, so gutters, downpipes, stonework and metal balconies or railings should be inspected on a schedule. In apartment blocks we give residents notice through the agent before working in shared areas. Factory units need cladding repairs, door maintenance as fabric items, yard resurfacing patches and fresh line marking. These jobs are arranged around shift handovers and delivery windows.

Brighouse is quick to reach from Leeds on the M62. We meet the agent, owner or site manager at the property and go through it together. What we agree is written into a schedule with clear frequencies. That gives residents' committees and finance teams something definite to refer to. A single contact deals with routine queries and with repairs reported between scheduled visits.

Facilities services for Brighouse businesses

All eight services are described on the services page. They are available around Commercial Street, the canal basin and Armytage Road Industrial Estate and throughout HD6.

What we check first on a Brighouse site

• Gutters, downpipes and gullies at low level, and any staining on the walls beneath them.
• The bin store or waste compound: capacity, cleanliness, access for the collection vehicle and signs of fly-tipping.
• Car park surfaces, markings, kerbs and drains, along with litter and leaf build-up in the corners.
• External doors, closers, locks and thresholds, which take the most wear and cause the most complaints.
• Planting, grass edges and hedges against boundaries, paths and sight lines at the entrance.
• Signage, lighting columns and bollards for damage, dirt and anything loose.

Sectors we work with in Brighouse

The sector pages explain how a contract is planned round the occupier: schools, retail, industrial and warehouses, block management and landlords, healthcare and offices.

Why use AD Facilities Management in Brighouse

• One contact for your Brighouse site: A named person manages the contract. Requests, changes and problems go to them and they report back to you.
• A written specification: Each service has its tasks, frequencies and exclusions listed, so there is no dispute later about what a visit should include.
• A schedule you can check: Visit days and periodic tasks are dated. If something is due in March, you can see that in January.
• Photographs in the report: Periodic work and repairs at your Brighouse premises are photographed before and after and sent with the report.
• Defects reported as they are seen: Our people flag damage and wear with a photograph and a location. You decide what happens next.

Nearby areas

If you manage more than one property, the neighbouring areas may be useful: FM services in Elland, Cleckheaton property maintenance, Halifax, Low Moor (BD12), facilities management in Huddersfield and commercial cleaning Mirfield. One schedule can cover sites in several of them.