Facility Management

GPO is a
multidisciplinary
Engineering and
Architecture
Group with
global presence
and local nature

We are a multi-sector engineering group that

renders planning, design, construction and
operational services in the transportation,
building, automotive, energy and environment
industries. We have a portfolio of projects
developed in more than 20 countries during the
last 27 years.

Engineering
As a group that is committed to progress, we are
interested in contributing to the improvement of
the countries where we operate. Our philosophy
is based on the fact that design and construction
are inseparable, and that the application of a
deep knowledge of each of them is fundamental
to the success of any project.
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GPO offers engineering TRANSPORTATION Roads
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and architecture services

Ports
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during all the developing RAILWAY SYSTEMS Utilities

Operation and Maintenance

stages of a project:
Rolling stock
Technical Consultancy and Security
Infrastructure

planning, design, BUILDING Unique Architecture

Facilities

construction and operation. Health Care

Facility Management

AUTOMOTIVE Test Tracks

Laboratories
Both the national and international growth of the Test Benches
company, together with the change in our clients’
Racing Circuits
needs, which widens every day, has led us to broaden
the reach of our services and meet new challenges. As
a result, we have classified our activity areas into five
markets: Transportation, Building, Automotive, Energy ENERGY Industrial Plants
and Water. Logistic Centers
Generation
Each sector has its own strategies and objectives, Industrial Processes
although all of them are interrelated to to offer a
comprehensive service which allows working in all
disciplines and geographical areas and provides
exceptional solutions to complex problems. We optimize
investments, while making our public and private WATER Irrigation
clients’ investment processes as efficient as possible. Supply
Sewerage Networks
Treatment Plants
Services
Project Stages Services for each Stage of the Project

Planning Technical Audits

Due Dilligence
Feasibility Studies
Feasibility Studies
Territorial Plans
Functional Studies
Transportation System Planning
Urban Planning
Needs Assessment and Traffic Studies
Risk Management Environmental Impact Assessment Feasibility and Profitability
Strategic Planning Operational Studies Technical, Environmental and Energy Audits
Conceptual Designs Geological - Geotechnical - Environmental Studies
Strategic Planning Land Aquisition & Resettlement

Design Programme Management

Consultant Selection
Cost Management
Preliminary Design
Detailed Design
Audits
Procurement & Tendering
ToR Drafting
License Management
Planning Management

Construction Construction Management (GIC)

Project Monitoring
Quality Contrast
Risk Management
Commissioning
Management Control
Availability Concession Control
Delivery and Guarantee Period
Technical Assistance
As-built Projects
Construction Management
Project Monitoring
Private Consulting
Institutional Consulting
Works Supervision Analysis of Regulations
Health and Safety Coordination Concession System
Environmental Management Concession Contests

Operation Facilities Management

Operation Stage
Inspection & Control
Preservation
Technical Reports
Audits
Infrastructure Management
Maintenance
Facility
Management
Facility Management is a model of property asset management from their introduction into operational use and
during their productive life, whose purpose is the maintenance management and control of buildings with the aim of
minimizing operating costs in connection with the established quality standards and maximizing buildings value.

Therefore, the Facillity Manager must have technical abilities and entrepreneurial approach so that all managing
responsabilities can be integrated, while the Facility Manager takes the purposes of the Property Assets as his own and
works as being the customer partner.

The Facility Management team of GPO has developed a strategy based on the client purposes and needs, which
allows having the higest achievement from property assets, taking always the philosophy of Full Quality and Constant
Improvement as a starting point.

In GPO we are totally focused on client’s needs, who entrust us with the strategy design of their Facilities Management,
so that they have the appropriate features according to their use, an optimum cost in connection with quality standards
and always fulfilling regulations and keeping quality.
Key Factors for Success Aims
Operational Cost Saving
Saving of those costs related to asset operation and maintenance.

Service Quality Improvement

Pool of Experts Improvement of maintenance service efficiency by suppliers.

Constant Improvement Processes

Constant evaluation of processes. Proposals and implementation of improvements.

Operational
Cost Saving
Service Quality
Improvement
Keys
AIMS Pool of Experts
Multidisciplinary team of experts in all the areas related to Facility Management.

Tools
Constant Use of a tool specific from Facility Management.
Tools Improvement Partnership
Processes
Partnership
Partnership relationship. The client delegates the management of assets to GPO, on the basis of
a comprehensive Maintenance and Economical Management of all the Services and Supplies of the assets.
Services
Technical Audit
of Buildings
Energy Audit
of Buildings
Predictive Maintenance
Planning
Hiring of Preventive and
Reactive Maintenance
Management Supervision
and Maintenance

• State of repair and • Energy effectiveness • Productive life • Global strategy for the • Evaluation of management and identification routines for
pathologies. evaluation. identification of pool of assets. improvement. Optimization of performance parameters.
equipments, facilities and
• Comprehensive check of • Economic study in the mid finishes. • Maintenance tasks scope. • Systematic search of price and quality alternatives.
mechanical and electric and long terms.
systems. • Temporary substitution • Infrastructure and • Management of preventive and reactive maintenance.
• Improvement proposals planning. equipment inventory.
• Check of licenses and economic evaluation • Incident management.
and authentications, (contingencies). • Economic study and cash • Maintenance range
and performance of flow. for equipments and • Performance quality characteristics and benchmarks.
regulations and available infrastructures.
technical documentation. • Management of operating costs-consumption.
• Terms of reference.
• Contingencies. • Periodical technical, economic and service reports.
Improvement proposals • Service Level Agreement
and economic evaluation. (SLA). • Identification of improvement chances for systematic
search of price and quality alternatives.
• Key Performance
Indicators (KPI).
General Approach
Our client hired GPO Facility Management services with the purpose of reducing maintenance costs considerably and to
implement an information system for asset and incident management to supervise building maintenance in general. This
Patrimonial Group has a property portfolio which includes 20 buildings for tertiary use and housing placed in Barcelona
metropolitan area. Biomedial
Several Buildings Research
Family Office Park of Pompeu Fabra University
Diagonal 197 Building Barcelona Ca l’Aranyó

GPO
Our Facility Management department made an inventory of the client’s property portfolio, identifying and characterizing
buildings, areas, systems, and equipments and then they drew up a maintenance planning for each asset. They also
established a quality system for maintenance management, which allowed providing a strict control over the service level
fulfillment required by the client.

All the previously described data and parameters were introduced in a computed information system which will make
asset and incident management easier. Finally, a system of supplier approval was defined and a terms of reference of the Pastas Gallo Factory Tecnocampus of Mataró
Granollers Vall d’Hebron Hospital
maintenance services was carried out, which allowed setting off the previously developed management systems.

Results
• Up to 30% reduction of preventive maitenance costs of assets.
• Reorganization and adaptation of corrective maintenance projects.
• Reorganization of maintenance agreements; reduction and renewal of supplier portfolio, definition of scope and
responsabilities.
• Definition of SLA levels and KPI indicators regarding maintenance services.
• Reorganization of incidence management, both at the technical and administrative levels.
• Outsourcing of asset management and maintenance to GPO.
• Starting of a computing system for information and incident management.
 Why GPO?
COST SAVING
Have the best technical and energetic proposals that allow working with the most adjusted operational
prices regarding building suppliers.

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT OUTSOURCING TO A SPECIALIST

GPO has a wide experience in all the technical fields of building, mainly based on design and building from
an engineering point of view. Our team is made up by the best specialists, always at the client service to
improve technical assessment, property assets management, strategic purposes of assets and to identify
improvement chances.

PROACTIVITY
Our knowledge and abilities of planning in the short/long term allow you to optimize you managing strategy
and bring impacts forward.

COORDINATED MANAGEMENT OF BUILDING POOL

When the building has a pool of assets, GPO services provide a wide view of the exploitation, achieving
economies of scale in some fields and coordinating assets projects looking for an overall result.

COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES
GPO services go beyond Facility Management: they embrace design, building management, technical audit,
etc. while providing comprehensive consulting and technical services.

SUCCESS
Our remuneration system is focused on client satisfaction and based on the securing of the established
aims.

INDEPENDENCE
GPO main purpose is client satisfaction, our business is not based on the implementation of maintenance
tasks or investment, but on technical consulting services for the client.

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