Engineering Facility Management (EFM) is a holistic combination of services that maintains all the engineering aspects of your facility to ensure smooth and efficient operation.
It brings together various disciplines such as electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and fire-fighting, under one roof and achieves synergistic efficiencies by bringing in the right manpower, technology and domain expertise to maintain them all uniformly and in sync with varied requirements.
With its project management and EMPG expertise, Blue Star understands the intricacies of operations and maintenance of various engineering equipment. It provides exceptional engineering facility management and offers a one-stop solution for all the operational and maintenance needs of all the engineering equipment in your facility.
Blue Star’s integrated MEP/E&M capabilities serve customers not just during the project planning and execution phase but after the project is commissioned too. That’s because every completed facility also needs efficient operation, maintenance and management thereafter. Just as a single-window approach works best during the creation of a facility, so does a single-vendor approach help in streamlined and cost-effective operation and maintenance of the facility.
Blue Star builds on its in-house expertise of integrated solutions for electrical, mechanical, plumbing, firefighting and HVAC systems. The Company offers customised service packages for the post commissioning phase. Engineering Facility Management (EFM) services are mix-and-match solutions that are tailor-made to suit the operational requirements of each facility to ensure highly efficient and seamless operation as well as maintenance. Simply put, entrusting EFM to Blue Star ensures that a facility runs as smoothly and effectively as it is designed to.
While handling an EFM contract, Blue Star uses state-of-the-art tools and software for heat-load estimation, equipment sizing and air & water balancing to suggest improvements in systems, based on the actual usage of the facility. Optimal performance can then be achieved through value-added services such as energy management, air management, water management, product upgrades and enhancements, revamping and retrofitting solutions, all of which are extended by the Company’s Specialist Service Quality Assurance Group
Blue Star renders the following EFM services at the customer’s premises:
Electrical O&M services
Blue Star has the best of electrical experts to understand the electrical system on-site. The experts understand the site requirements, monitor the electrical systems and ensure that the systems deliver at their efficient best. Lighting (internal & external), HT & LT switchgear, transformers, generators and UPS systems are some of the electrical equipment and peripherals that the Company operates and maintains.
Fire-fighting O&M services
Blue Star understands the importance of fire-fighting both in industrial applications as well as in commercial buildings. Blue Star’s team is therefore well-trained to handle the maintenance of fire hydrants, sprinklers, jockeys, diesel engine operated systems, as well as any type of fire extinguishers installed at the site. Blue Star can also maintain equipment-based fire-fighting systems such as CO2 flooding systems for electrical panels, inert gas suppression systems, and FM 200 (HFC) for high value assets and equipment.
Low Voltage System O&M services
The systems that control and monitor the operating equipment in the premises need maintenance too. Blue Star studies the operating conditions of each equipment, maintains their connections and ensures that the equipment runs optimally. The Company takes care of end-to-end maintenance of Building Management Systems (BMS), fire detection systems comprising fire alarms, smoke detectors, CCTV and access control systems.
Mechanical O&M services
Blue Star’s team is trained to handle any problem that might occur in the mechanical equipment installed on-site and to resolve them at the earliest so that the customer does not face any difficulties. The Company efficiently maintains air conditioners, chillers, cooling towers, boilers, extraction systems, ventilation systems, pumps and air-compressors at the customer’s premises.
Plumbing O&M services
Blue Star understands the importance of the right quality and amount of water that is to flow in the facility both for machines and people. The team from Blue Star ensures that the water quality is constantly maintained, while treating effluents and disposing them efficiently.
Energy efficiency:
Blue Star’s BEE-certified managers and energy auditors have hands-on experience in auditing more than 150 facilities across diverse industries. This vast experience helps in formulating the best practices in day-to-day operations and maintenance, and for design changes, if required. With regular monitoring and application of the expert recommendations, up to 10% of savings in the costs of running the premises can be achieved.
Uptime guarantee:
Blue Star delivers up to 98% uptime for all utilities. By using various best practices such as 52-week planned preventive maintenance, why-why analysis, root cause analysis and CAPA for major failure, the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) can be increased, resulting in improved uptime.
Comprehensive solution:
Blue Star offers a comprehensive one-stop solution that covers all operations and maintenance related services. It includes high-end electrical maintenance, mechanical equipment maintenance, energy auditing and indoor air quality study.
Quality management:
Blue Star is an ISO certified company for all the processes it has in place. The Service Quality Assurance team audits the sites to ensure that the processes are adhered to and brings in the industry benchmarked practices as part of the Company’s continuous improvement in services.
Service Specialists Group:
This team consisting of technical specialists, equipped with the right qualifications, tools and years of experience in the relevant products and technologies, and they support the field teams in resolving complex problems.
Sustainability:
Blue Star’s expert team of BEE-certified auditors and LEED-certified Green Building facilitators (LEED-AP) ensures continuous monitoring of and improvement in the efficiency of the facility.
