Managing property asset information for Nationwide Building Society
How CADS' manage property asset information including data and drawings for world's largest mutual financial institution since 2012.
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Manage property asset information on a large scale
Nationwide Building Society (NBS) is now the world’s largest mutual financial institution. It is also the UK’s third largest mortgage lender, and one of the UK’s largest savings providers. NBS has over 680 branches and 20 Admin Centres around the country and their head office is in Swindon. As the property portfolio has grown and been refurbished, keeping accurate records to manage property asset information has presented a huge challenge.
Combining space data for all branches into a single system
CADS was commissioned by NBS’ Property & Corporate Services Department in 2012. The project was to bring together the space data for all branches and admin areas into a single system. This system needed to be easily updated and aspects of the company’s property portfolio reported on for facility management purposes.
Managing data and drawings during the refurbishment programme
The business is also undertaking a lengthy refresh and refurbishment programme in branches and admin centres. This included a shift to an open-plan environment at some of their Swindon offices.
The change in office format has allowed NBS to apply their flexible working ethos. They also as introduced collaborative working areas for employees and identified space-saving opportunities in the building. Amending the NBS drawings and database to reflect these changes is an ongoing task for the CADS drawing team. This takes place whilst the refurbishment programme is underway.
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CADS' asset database linking to master CAD drawings
To address these issues, CADS’ developed their software asset database as the solution for NBS, which contains all the relevant details of the property portfolio and is directly linked to the master CAD drawings. This enables the Facility Management team to take decisions and provide information when required.
Streamlined data for facilities management
Each building within the NBS estate now has its AutoCAD record linked to an online database. SpaceStation® asset database in turn feeds into a central system hub of FM data providing an integrated repository for all branch and admin site-related information. Data can be accessed by the relevant people within the organisation when they need information quickly e.g. to see what the different branches look like and what facilities they contain.
CADS provides space planning resource
CADS also provides a space planning resource for NBS, supplying bespoke reports from the database when required and swiftly answering queries from various departments within Nationwide on request. These include requests for total usable areas of admin centres or how many counters are in a selection of branches.
This has all led to a very dynamic relationship between NBS and CADS because with any major refurbishment of office buildings, feasibility drawings are essential and CADS now completes these feasibility layouts.
Gurmeet Grewal
Property Business Systems Manager, Nationwide Building Society
CADS has transformed the way in which we capture, manage and exploit our drawing database. We have streamlined processes that were once time consuming and adding no value so that we can now work with outputs rather than spending all our time trying to input.
A professional organisation that has a real ‘can do’ attitude and the relationship built to date has far exceeded my expectations. We have managed to bring CADS into our business and they now have a working relationship with other departments and areas who are all very complimentary on the service delivered
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