How to Save Money in Facilities Maintenance

Older buildings can be hard to service with traditional access tools such as scaffolding and ladders. These out-dated, less productive systems make accomplishing these projects very challenging for today’s facilities managers. You are under pressure to get more done, with fewer resources, reduced staff and slashed budgets. How do you get difficult projects like this, completed faster and under budget? Let us show you how...

Case Study
The auditorium ceiling at Rockefeller University in Manhattan, NYC needed to be painted. The old method of scaffolding had become prohibitively expensive. It was going to cost over $67,000.00 just to set up the scaffolding, never mind the cost of the labor for painting, additional labor to remove rows and rows of seats, and then cleaning up the facility.

At first glance it seemed like an impossibility to drive any sort of equipment into a facility like this. In order to access the auditorium, the lift operator drove the Spidelift through the front door, down the hallway and drove down the steps of the stadium seating auditorium. Oncet he operator setup the lift, workers were able to reach the entire ceiling from that one spot. Teupen lifts are far more versatile than ordinary aerial lifts. This is the world’s most advanced technology, that is faster, lighter and more nimble, than any other competitive lift , making for a far more versatile piece of equipment, that can not only save you money indoors, but easily multitask and work outdoors.

In the past, many difficult to reach areas and sites were only accessible by using cumbersome ladders, staging or scaffolding. Many of these sites were impossible to reach with any old-style aerial work platform. Today with this new modern technology, you are guaranteed to be 300% to 500% more productive.. With ability to climb steep entrance stairs (30% max slope), travel over marble floors without damage, enter narrow doorways, make sharp turns, then travel up and down stairways in an auditorium or any interior area, Teupen lifts give you fast, easy and safe access wherever you need it.

Projects that took many days to prepare for the work, now only take minutes to set up and only a few days to complete, rather than tying up a large crew for weeks on end and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. The above project took less than ten days to complete and at a fraction of the cost of old-fashioned scaffolding. (The final cost was only about $21,000.00 instead of $67,000.00).

That was a savings of $46,000.00 on one project.

Teupen lifts can just as easily work outdoors as indoors. With large oversize outriggers, the same lift can set up on steep terrain, then self level in seconds for safe operation, set up in narrow alleyways, travel on lawns without damaging turf and also travel on mud, snow and even wetlands without any special permits, making it the most popular lift with tree companies. Saving you money and bringing safety and efficiency to your workplace is what we do best. Better yet, investing in one Teupen lift can take the place of three or four other pieces of equipment, further reducing your capital investment and maintenance.

If you only need to rent the equipment, we do many projects like the one described above. Call us to discuss your needs and challenges or simply email us a picture of the area you need to reach for advice.