Education Facilities Management & Maintenance
Protecting students and eliminating lost teaching days. We provide DBS-checked, proactive mechanical compliance and maintenance for schools, colleges, and university campuses across the South East.
Zero Disruption to the Academic Calendar
Managing the infrastructure of a school or university campus is a logistical balancing act. You are tasked with maintaining aging infrastructure on tight budgets while adhering to strict local authority and safeguarding regulations. A failed boiler in mid-winter doesn’t just mean a cold classroom; it means sending students home, frustrating parents, and losing critical teaching days.
The SEM Approach
We partner with Bursars, Estate Directors, and Facilities Managers to take the friction out of school maintenance. Our fully DBS-checked engineers work seamlessly around your academic calendar-executing heavy maintenance during school holidays and providing rapid, discreet emergency response during term time.
Integrated Maintenance for Care Environments
Managing multiple contractors across a sprawling campus increases your administrative burden and security risks. We act as a single-source engineering partner for your educational facility, ensuring every building remains safe, compliant, and operational. Explore our core services below:
Commercial Gas & Heating
Ensure classrooms remain warm and secure your annual CP12 Gas Safety certificates with our reactive repairs and proactive campus heating maintenance.
Water Hygiene & Legionella (ACoP L8)
Protect your students and staff with comprehensive Legionella risk assessments, routine sampling, and closed-system dosing across all campus buildings.
Smart Remote Monitoring
Automate your compliance across multiple buildings. We install discreet IoT sensors to monitor water temperatures 24/7, eliminating manual checks for your site team.
Chimney & Flue Inspections
Ensure the safe extraction of combustion gases from your commercial boilers. We provide specialist CCTV chimney diagnostics and flue plotting to eliminate carbon monoxide risks in sensitive patient environments.
Swimming Pool Boilers
For schools and universities featuring on-site leisure facilities, our HWB1-accredited engineers provide specialist pool boiler servicing and repair.
Bespoke Maintenance Packages
Protect your budgets. We design tailored PPM schedules executed during half-terms and summer breaks to prevent unexpected term-time breakdowns.
Engineered for the Education Sector
Enhanced
Safeguarding (DBS)
Student safety is non-negotiable. Every SEM Facilities engineer deployed to an educational site is fully DBS-checked, vetted, and trained to follow strict on-site safeguarding protocols.
Term-Time &
Holiday Scheduling
We align our servicing with your academic calendar. Major plant room upgrades and disruptive works are scheduled during the six-week summer break to ensure zero term-time disruption.
Multi-Site &
Campus Capability
Whether you manage a single primary school or a multi-building university campus, we have the workforce capacity and technical expertise to handle complex, large-scale infrastructure.
Proven in the Education Sector
From emergency gas leak resolutions at the University of Surrey to major system overhauls at West London High Schools, see how we deliver reliable infrastructure solutions for the education sector.
Supporting Schools Across the South East
Operating from our Caterham headquarters, our DBS-checked engineers provide rapid-response and planned maintenance for primary schools, academies, and universities across the following regions:
- Surrey
- London
- Kent
- Hertfordshire
- Essex
- Buckinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- West Sussex
- East Sussex
- Berkshire
- Bedfordshire
- Hampshire
Education Maintenance FAQs
Are your engineers DBS checked?
Yes, absolutely. Safeguarding is a priority for us. Every engineer who visits a school, college, or university campus holds a current, enhanced DBS check and is trained to comply with your site’s specific visitor and security protocols.
Can you schedule our annual maintenance during the school holidays?
Yes. We highly recommend and actively plan for “heavy” maintenance, such as commercial boiler servicing, system flushing, and CP12 certifications, to take place during half-terms or the summer break to ensure zero disruption to teaching time.
We have a sprawling campus with multiple boiler rooms. Can you manage this?
Yes. We specialise in complex, multi-site infrastructure. We can consolidate all your plant rooms into a single, unified Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) contract, providing a single point of contact and streamlined invoicing for your bursary team.
