“In 2022 St Bede’s College engaged Plan Heaven to develop the school’s Long Term Maintenance Plan (LTMP). Plan Heaven was recommended to me by professionals in the property management industry and our due diligence convinced me that John Bradley and the Plan Heaven team provide an excellent product at a reasonable price.
After being engaged, Plan Heaven undertook a property survey of the school campus, prepared our LTMP, and loaded all the data into their online app. This LMTP was then reviewed by school staff and adopted by our Board. The whole process was unexpectedly easy.
The online app now allows us to maintain and update the LTMP ourselves. It gives us a tool to consider the effect of timing of major maintenance projects on our finances and helps enormously with our long term operational and financial planning.
We have found the Plan Heaven team professional, knowledgeable, and easy to deal with. I’m very pleased that we engaged them, and very happy to recommend them to others. ”Steve Kelsen, General Manager, St Bedes, Christchurch
More responsive LTMPs designed especially for Schools
Plan Heaven is a New Zealand owned and operated business that specialises in assisting owners of all types of properties with their long-term maintenance planning. We are the second largest provider in the country of LTMPs to the Unit Title sector (Bodies Corporate) but have also prepared LTMPs for Retirement Villages, Commercial Property Owners, Integrated Schools, Government Buildings, Company Share, Cross-Lease and Resident's Assocation owners and sports clubs. We've even prepared an LTMP for a Marina.
At Plan Heaven, building and maintaining LTMPs is our core business, so we need to be really good at it. We think carefully about what the property owner needs and their maintenance objectives. We also take care with the layout of the document and the language we use. We appreciate that now all stakeholders will be experienced property professionals, and for them to embrace an LTMP, those people first need to understand it and concur with the maintenance it proposes. Our planners need to be communicators.
However, we first and foremost accept that our planners need to be experienced property maintenance professionals, and that's why we place emphasis on recruitment, training, and continued professional development. As part of their role, each of our planners appreciates the importance of healthy teaching spaces, balanced against the understanding that each school's cash resources are limited.
Our LTMPs are built in the cloud in an app, meaning that they can be viewed and updated from any internet-connected device 24/7. Any person can be granted access to the account and edit and rollover the plan. It becomes a living document.
We are aware that schools, particularly the larger ones, have many different buildings of varying standards and a wide range of infrastructure and assets. Our plans address all of these items.
Summary
In summary, Plan Heaven's LTMPs are designed to assist the School and its Managers in the smooth and financially sound management of long-term maintenance.
More details are provided on each of the points above in other help pages.
If you have any questions and would like to know please contact support@planheaven.co.nz or 0800 109 327
The Plan Heaven team.