A property protection specialist explains how healthcare estates managers can keep disused buildings safe and secure in a novel way using ‘live-in’ security.
Simon Finneran, managing director of vacant property protection specialist, Ad Hoc Property Management (pictured), discusses how, in the company’s words, estates managers in the healthcare sector “can make significant savings when looking for vacant property security solutions by installing salaried individuals in disused buildings to act as ‘live in security’§.”
As budgetary pressures and demands for efficiency continue to gain momentum, providing a costeffective solution to property security is often a key topic of discussion for estates and facilities managers in the healthcare sector. Across the UK, NHS sites are closing down for a variety of reasons – most notably the need to cut costs, consolidating hospitals, offices, and clinics into one larger site, or for refurbishment. Handling projects such as these is part and parcel of a day in the life of an NHS estates manager.
However, the interim period that follows these closures, in which decision-makers are faced with the task of finding an alternative use, or gaining approvals for the sale of property, can take several months, or more. In this time these buildings are susceptible to asset stripping, vandalism, and illegal occupation ‘(squatting’), which can, in turn, result in untold damage.
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