Author Archives: James Bevis

Commercial Maintenance Management Support

November 2020 We are delighted to announce that Insight FM has been appointed to provide maintenance management support services to the Estate Manager for two commercial buildings in North West London. This appointment comes from one of our existing clients who are a large managing agent in the commercial sector and we are pleased to […]

BS 8519: 2020

A decade since its inception and following a two-year consultation period, BS 8519 (selection and installation of fire‑resistant power and control cable systems for life safety, fire‑fighting and other critical applications – code of practice) has been revised. BS 8519: 2020 came into effect on the 30 June 2020 and is a full revision, introducing […]

Electric Boilers – Future or Folly?

Local point-of-use electric water heaters and electric immersion cylinders have been widely specified for many years. More recently, electric combi-boilers have been promoted by industry and manufacturers’ as a potential greener alternative to the traditional gas-fired combi-boiler. Utilising electricity as the energy source, instead of gas, has some obvious advantages including the omission of discharge […]

Operation & Maintenance Manuals (O&M’s) – Building Services Bibles for Operational Engineering

Operation & Maintenance Manuals are an essential element of handover documentation that should be populated correctly and in detail. In our capacity as Operational Engineering Consultants, we regularly see poor quality O&M’s on quality commercial and residential sites, sometimes having been built not more than a few years ago.  More and more we see: Huge […]