Div 01 · General Requirements
Commercial building maintenance
A commercial building fails in small pieces. A condenser short-cycles in July, a panel trips on the third floor, an elevator sits down on a Friday afternoon, and every one of those is a different phone number, a different COI, a different invoice.
Facility Service Group holds all of it under one contract. Elevators, HVAC, electrical, painting and a dedicated onsite technician are five separate vendor relationships for most property managers. Here they are five line items on one scope of work, dispatched off one work order system, billed on one invoice.
That is the whole argument for consolidation and it is worth stating plainly: it is not cheaper per hour. It is cheaper per incident, because nobody spends forty minutes deciding whose problem it is.
Scopes of work
What sits under building maintenance
- Div 14 · Conveying Equipment
Elevator Maintenance
An elevator out of service is not a maintenance issue, it is a tenant issue. It becomes a leasing issue about a week later, and in a building with an accessible route requirement it becomes a compliance issue immediately.
Scope and pricing drivers - Div 23 · Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
HVAC Preventive Maintenance
On the Gulf Coast a rooftop unit runs a cooling load nine months a year. Equipment that would last twenty years in a dry climate does not, and the failures land in the two weeks when a tenant complaint escalates fastest.
Scope and pricing drivers - Div 26 · Electrical
Commercial Electrical
Electrical is the trade where the cheap call and the expensive call look identical from the property manager's desk. A tripping breaker is either a plugged-in space heater or a failing panel, and you find out which by having a licensed electrician open it.
Scope and pricing drivers - Div 09 · Finishes
Commercial Painting
Paint is the cheapest thing on a capital plan that a prospective tenant actually notices. It is also the first line cut, which is why so many Class B buildings tour badly against comparable space at the same rent.
Scope and pricing drivers - Div 01 · General Requirements
Contract Facility Maintenance Technicians
There is a size of building where a full-time maintenance employee is too much and a service call every time is too slow. That gap is where most deferred maintenance accumulates, because nobody is walking the building.
Scope and pricing drivers
What you get
What consolidating this line actually changes
- One scope of work covering five trades instead of five contracts
- One certificate of insurance on file instead of five
- One work order system, one dispatch, one invoice
- A technician who has already been in your building before the thing broke
Questions we actually get asked
Can you take over a building mid-contract with our current vendors?
Yes. Most transitions run trade by trade rather than all at once. Common sequence is to take the recurring lines first — janitorial and grounds — and pick up the reactive trades as the incumbent contracts expire.
Do you handle after-hours and emergency calls?
Yes. Reactive repair across HVAC, electrical and elevators is part of the maintenance scope. Response windows are written into the contract rather than left to the ticket queue.
What is the difference between a maintenance contract and calling on demand?
A contract sets scheduled preventive work — filter changes, belt inspections, panel checks, elevator service to manufacturer spec — so that a share of your reactive calls never happen. On-demand costs less per year until the first failure that a PM visit would have caught.
Coverage
Building Maintenance across the Houston metro
Delivered from 12707 North Freeway, Houston, TX 77060 across a Houston to Dallas corridor.
- Houston
- Dallas
- Fort Worth
- Arlington
- Plano
- Irving
- Garland
- Frisco
- McKinney
- Grand Prairie
- Denton
- Mesquite
- Pasadena
- Lewisville
- Carrollton
- Pearland
- College Station
- League City
- Richardson
- Conroe
- The Woodlands
- Allen
- Sugar Land
- Bryan
- Atascocita
- Baytown
- Mansfield
- Flower Mound
- Missouri City
- North Richland Hills
- Rowlett
- Wylie
- Spring
- Little Elm
- Euless
- Texas City
- DeSoto
- Burleson
- Fulshear
- Rockwall
- Galveston
- Celina
- Grapevine
- Sherman
- Cedar Hill
- Huntsville
- Bedford
- Waxahachie
- Keller
- The Colony
- Haltom City
- Channelview
- Prosper
- Midlothian
- Rosenberg
- Coppell
- Friendswood
- Lancaster
- Hurst
- Weatherford
- Duncanville
- Forney
- Cleburne
- La Porte
- Farmers Branch
- Princeton
- Mission Bend
- Deer Park
- Greenville
- Sachse
- Anna
- Southlake
- Alvin
- Katy
- Fate
- Balch Springs
- Royse City
- Melissa
- Saginaw
- Colleyville
- Corsicana
- University Park
- Ennis
- Benbrook
- Fresno
- Corinth
- Cloverleaf
- Watauga
- Terrell
- Pecan Grove
- Dickinson
- Murphy
- Angleton
- Crowley
- Sienna
- La Marque
- Seagoville
Next step
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