What Is Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)?

Planned Preventative Maintenance (often called a PPM Plan) is a scheduled approach to maintaining a building’s structure, services, and components before they deteriorate or fail. Unlike reactive maintenance—which can be disruptive and expensive—PPM aims to keep your property in good condition with regular, planned work.

This might include things like:

• Roof inspections and minor roof repairs
• Joinery resealing and repainting
• Gutter cleaning and drainage checks
• Cladding and facade inspections
• Mechanical and electrical servicing
• Building condition reports with life-cycle projections

By keeping everything in working order, PPM extends the lifespan of your assets, improves safety, protects the value of your investment, and helps you avoid nasty surprises.

Our PPM Services at a Glance

When you engage Aamsko for Planned Preventative Maintenance or Maintenance Planning services, you’ll receive a complete, structured, and usable plan. Our services include:

1. Full Building Condition Survey

We begin by inspecting all key building elements and services. We use a combination of visual surveys, testing, and document reviews to understand the current state of your building.

2. Risk and Defect Identification

We identify wear, damage, and materials likely to cause future issues—especially in high-risk elements like cladding, roofs, and joinery. For weathertightness concerns, we can also undertake targeted forensic testing.

3. Maintenance Schedule Development

We create a realistic and well-prioritised schedule of maintenance activities over 5, 10, or 15 years—depending on your goals. This plan includes estimated timeframes and cost ranges for each maintenance task.

4. Budget Forecasting and Lifecycle Planning

Our maintenance plans come with forecasted budgets to help you plan for short-term and long-term costs. This supports proactive financial planning and reserve fund contributions.

5. Integration with Long-Term Maintenance Plans (LTMP)

For body corporate clients, we prepare LTMPs that comply with the Unit Titles Act and are tailored to your scheme’s condition, risks, and ownership responsibilities.

6. Remediation and Capital Works Coordination

When a plan identifies significant issues, we help you scope and specify the required remediation works, manage design and contractor procurement, and oversee repairs from start to finish.

Maintenance Planning Tailored to Your Property

Every building is different. Aamsko provides maintenance planning services that are tailored to the age, design, use, and materials of your building. We take into account current condition, historic repairs, warranties, manufacturer requirements, and even your available budget to create a custom PPM programme.

• For commercial properties, we focus on plant room services, HVAC maintenance, facade checks, and long-term capital works forecasting.
• For body corporates, we align our plans with the long-term maintenance plan (LTMP) under the Unit Titles Act, giving owners clarity on upcoming costs and priorities.
• For residential homeowners, we take a pragmatic approach—targeting high-risk areas like roofing, balconies, and joinery systems that may fail over time.

Why PPM Is Especially Important for Leaky Buildings

Aamsko specialises in leaky building remediation, so we know first-hand how devastating deferred maintenance can be. Many of the weathertightness failures we fix today could have been prevented with proper inspection, sealing, painting, and waterproofing maintenance 10 or 15 years earlier. PPM isn’t just a tick-box exercise. It’s your best defence against rot, mould, structural failure, and costly legal disputes. In fact, councils, insurers, and valuers are all starting to take maintenance history more seriously when reviewing property risk.