{"id":9049,"date":"2022-02-15T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swgnew.com\/aus\/news\/educational-fm-insight-dean-close-school\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:42:42","slug":"educational-fm-insight-dean-close-school","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/aus\/news\/educational-fm-insight-dean-close-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational FM Insight from Dean Close School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Close School was established in 1886 and is set in a picturesque parkland of 50 acres within the centre of Cheltenham, UK. This prestigious day and boarding school has an average of 800 students and started using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/software\/facilities-maintenance-management-software\/\">QFM software<\/a> from Service Works Global (SWG) in 2015. Facilities include a two-storey art school, a music school, three theatres, an all-purpose sports facility with a 25m pool, floodlit AstroTurf pitches, and rifle ranges climbing walls, squash, and tennis courts, and seven boarding houses.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Seamarks, Compliance Manager at Dean Close Schools, spoke to SWG about how QFM software is being used to keep the site running smoothly and cost effectively. QFM replaced a Microsoft Access-style job sheet that the help desk would print and give to operatives. Jobs were being cherry-picked, some were lost and generally the system wasn\u2019t working efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reduced paper usage alone by somewhere in the region of 3,000 sheets per year, purely by using QFM on a mobile device and digital forms,\u201d says Seamarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things we have been extremely strict on is compliance. Checks include water testing, fire extinguishers and emergency lighting; the QFM app allows the individual to perform the necessary checks and record faults there and then. We pick up more issues as we are going around in this way; QFM immediately captures the data and we don\u2019t have to remember to log anything when we go back to the office,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Dean Close School and how they are using QFM in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/case-studies\/dean-close-school\/\">case study.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read how prestigious UK day and boarding school is using QFM software to improve compliance, reduce costs and manage work more effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9050,"template":"","categories":[54,186,58,59,60],"class_list":["post-9049","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asset-management","category-cmms","category-compliance","category-education","category-fm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/9049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}