My personalized preventive maintenance program saved me from replacing my hot water heater. That’s important to my bottom line.

Retail Facilities Maintenance

Our Mission: To Become the Leader in Retail Facility Preventive Maintenance Quality, Consistency, and Efficiency.

Pickett Facilities Maintenance is a self performing, insured, bonded and uniformed full-service facility maintenance division of A. Pickett Construction, Inc. We provide a comprehensive service menu capable of performing within the customer’s budgetary restraints, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Pickett Facilities Maintenance is equipped and setup to work around the clock to ensure minimal operational impacts.

Personalized Preventive Maintenance Programs

Implementing a Preventive Maintenance Program will enable you to detect and prevent many problems before they become incidents, impacting your operations and ultimately, customer sales, gross revenue and profit.

Combining your Preventive Maintenance Program with effective quality monitoring will provide a means of measuring the effectiveness of the maintenance activities, identifying repeat offenders and allowing more time to make critical capital decisions.

Retail Facility Preventive Maintenance Benefits

  • Reduced Operational Impacts; Maintain Gross Sales Targets
  • Increased Life Expectancy of Critical Facility Infrastructure and Sales Environment
  • More Economical Use of Maintenance Staff Because They Are Working to a Schedule Rather Than Reacting to Emergencies
  • Timely Routine Repairs Means Fewer Large-scale Repairs
  • Lower Repair Costs, There Will Be Fewer Secondary Failures
  • Improved Safety Conditions; Safe Environments Produce Healthy Returns

GREEN MAINTENANCE
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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How can I help the environment in my office?

Purchase office supplies from local companies. Purchase/lease low emission vehicles and provide a written policy on all future vehicles. Environmental concerns related to building include vehicle emissions and the need for vehicle infrastructure as building occupants travel to and from the site. There are a number of ways to mitigate these emissions. Among them are hybrid vehicles, alternative fuel vehicles, carpools and mass transit. Provide incentives (if possible) for carpooling, biking or using mass transit.

How can we set up a recycling program?

Identify a central location for recycling in your building. In the past when land fill space was readily available and disposal fees were low, recycling or reuse was not economically feasible. Now recycling is the norm and many municipalities require recycling of corrugated paper, plastic and metal products. Designate a used goods area for reusable items like binders, folders, boxes and padded envelopes that may be reused.

What is indoor air quality? How can I improve it?

The toxic chemicals found in most common building material negatively affect indoor air quality (what you breath every day). To help prevent some of this clean or replace your HVAC filters per the manufacturers instructions. Inspect and clean air ducts and both supply and return grilles on a regular basis to minimize dust collection and mildew.

Does our heating or cooling operate over night?

Yes, unless you manually set your temperature down or up depending on your location. You may also be able to shut down your system overnight. A final option is to have a programmable thermostat. Using programmable thermostats automatically adjusts the target temperature for your system so you can minimize the amount of energy your system will use.

Which is better: a recycled material or a natural material?

There is no perfect material or product. All materials in one form or another have a negative effect on our environment. The key is setting priorities for what you want to accomplish with that material or product and then minimizing the environmental impact of that material or product. Some key questions to consider when making your decision are:
a) Where did this material or product come from?
b) What are the by-products of its’ manufacturer?
c) How is the material delivered and installed?
d) How is the material maintained and operated?
e) What do we do with them once we are done with the materials?