Richard Irvin FM

RIFM services are delivered by four strategically structured divisions – housing, managed, mobile and projects – to a broad scope of sectors, including local authorities, government departments and the public sector, defence, oil and gas, managing agents, housing associations, healthcare, hospitality and retail. Its experts have extensive experience of advising and leading facilities management contracts and projects in both the public and the private sectors and across industries.

RIFM’s technical facilities management services are provided for maintaining safe, productive and healthy environments and include preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, mechanical and electrical maintenance, compliance testing, system efficiency, energy management, building fabric maintenance and minor works and projects. The business can also work with clients to deliver a full range of refurbishment, upgrade and replacement projects.

RIFM can take responsibility for the management of property, assuming control of maintenance, procurement and contract management. Its experienced team uses self-built, bespoke, cutting-edge technology and a highly integrated approach to manage clients’ facilities, from single properties through to large and multi-site estates.

It can provide a wide range of housing services to landlords, government bodies, local authorities and housing associations in both rural and urban locations. These can include routine servicing, testing, repairs, replacement and upgrade services to systems, including fully comprehensive servicing programmes, boilers and heating, fixed electrical and lighting and heat, smoke and atmospheric detection, among others. RIFM also assists with refurbishment, upgrade and replacement projects to ensure that buildings and systems are working efficiently and in-line with client needs and statutory requirements.

RIFM can assist clients by providing energy monitoring and reporting systems and energy usage insights with options and solutions to help cut costs and carbon emissions. These services may include voltage optimisation, low energy and free cooling ventilation and air conditioning technology, ground source heat pumps, wind turbines and photovoltaics.

RIFM’s award-winning, business platform, ASURE, was built to monitor, assess and report on how it delivers compliance. In addition, its dedicated and bespoke computer-aided facilities management software, FMSERV, is designed to save clients time, bring down costs and offer clients 24/7 transparent and precise insight into how facilities are running.

RIFM work to BESA SFG20 codes of practice and task descriptors to ensure their field engineers deliver consistently to promote continuity of supply against gold standard auditable guidance.

Some of RIFM’s clients and projects include the Ministry of Defence, National Libraries of Scotland, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Erskine Veterans Charity, Total E&P, Moray Council and eight Scottish local authorities.