Mechanical, electrical and plumbing works
Maintenance and works across the three services, run under method statements, permits and supervision rather than on trust.
- Disciplines
- Electrical, plumbing and sanitary, HVAC
- Control
- Method statement and permit before work
- Survey to method statement
- Five working days
- HV, lifts, suppression
- Managed specialist
- Coverage
- On site across Saudi Arabia
MEP covers the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems that make a building usable. ITF maintains them and carries out defined works on them, with a method statement and a permit before work starts and a record after it finishes. High voltage, lifts and suppression are managed specialist work.
- 01 Enquiry
- 02 Site survey
- 03 Scope and quote
- 04 Mobilisation
- 05 Planned schedule
- 06 Execution
- 07 Monthly report
- 08 Management review
- 09 Next cycle
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing works sits at step 6 of the fm operating cycle. You receive closed work orders with photo evidence.
The part that gets skipped
Almost every MEP incident on a live building traces back to a control that was skipped because it felt like paperwork.
Isolation not proved. A valve closed but not locked. A hot works permit that nobody issued because the job was only going to take ten minutes. The technical work is usually competent. The control around it is what fails.
The second pattern is scope drift. A team is on site for a filter change, someone asks them to look at a leaking flange while they are there, and now unplanned work is happening on a system nobody isolated, with no record of who touched what.
So we work to a method statement and a permit, and a task that is not on the permit does not happen that day. It is slower on the morning and faster over the year.
The three disciplines
Each has its own page with the detail. This is what the combined service covers and where the boundaries sit.
| Discipline | Typical work | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical | Distribution board maintenance, thermographic survey, circuit testing, lighting and small power installation, fault finding. | LV, from the site side of the incoming supply |
| Plumbing and sanitary | Pumps, tanks, risers, drainage, fixtures, leak investigation, tank cleaning coordination. | Site side of the meter |
| HVAC | Air handling units, fan coils, split and package units, chilled water plant, filters, coils and controls. | Plant and distribution; duct cleaning is its own job |
| Fire alarm systems | Installation and maintenance of fire alarm devices and equipment. | Its own page |
| Specialist systems | HV, lifts, suppression, ELV and anything needing a specific licence, worked by licensed specialists to a scope we write, supervise and keep on the same record. | Managed specialist |
The paperwork that comes with the work
Three of these exist before the job starts. That is the point of them.
The method statement
How the task will be done, with the sequence, the isolation points, the tools and the people. Issued for your approval, not filed after the fact.
The permit
Signed on the day, naming the system, the isolation, the duration and the person in charge. Closed and returned when the system is handed back.
The risk assessment
The hazards for that task on that site, with controls. Generic assessments get rejected by our own supervisors before they reach you.
The work order record
What was found, what was done, which parts were used, photographs before and after, and who signed the system back into service.
The test and inspection log
Readings and test results against the asset, kept as a history rather than as loose certificates in a drawer.
How a works package runs
- 01
Define the package
The task, the system affected, the downtime needed and the access required. A package that cannot state its downtime is not ready to be scheduled.
- 02
Issue the method statement
Written for the specific task and sent for your approval. If your site has its own permit regime, ours folds into yours rather than competing with it.
- 03
Isolate and prove
Isolation applied, locked and proved dead or depressurised, and photographed. This is the step that stops the accident, so it is the step with the record.
- 04
Work and hand back
The task executed to the statement, the system tested, the permit closed and the area returned in the state you would want to find it.
Three insurer findings, three weeks
An insurer's survey of a warehouse in Dammam raises three findings: hot terminations on two distribution boards, a leaking riser valve above a switchroom, and no record of RCD testing. The client has three weeks to respond.
We issue method statements within five working days. The board work is planned for a Friday shutdown: thermography first under load, then isolation, torque checks and re-termination, then a repeat scan. The riser valve is replaced under a plumbing permit with the switchroom protected below it. RCDs are tested and the results recorded as trip times per way.
The client sends the insurer a handover pack: before and after thermal images, the permit record, the RCD results table, the corrected board schedules and photographs of the new valve. The findings are answered with evidence rather than a letter saying the work was done.
Two ways this gets bought
MEP as a running service
A monthly presence, planned tasks on the calendar and reactive cover between them. This is the normal shape inside an O&M contract and it can be bought on its own.
- Planned tasks drawn from the asset register and the manufacturer intervals
- Reactive response against an agreed priority ladder
- One technical supervisor who knows your plant rather than a rotating crew
MEP as a project with an end date
A fit-out, a replacement, a remedial package after a survey or an insurance finding. Priced against a scope, executed against a programme, closed with handover documents.
- Scope, programme and downtime agreed before mobilisation
- Permit discipline identical to the maintenance contract
- Handover pack with test results, photographs and as-installed detail
Before the first permit
Who handles high voltage, lifts and suppression?
Licensed specialists, as managed specialist work. We write the scope, supervise the visit, hold their records and keep their dates on the same calendar as ours, so the file for the building stays in one place.
Will you work to our permit system?
Yes, and we prefer it. If your site runs a permit to work regime, ours becomes an input to yours. If you do not have one, we bring ours and you end up with a record of every isolation performed on your building, which is useful long after we leave.
Can you work during production or occupied hours?
Often, and sometimes it is the wrong idea. Whether work can happen live is a decision that belongs in the method statement, not in a phone call on the morning. Where it cannot, the task moves to a shutdown window and we tell you that at quote stage rather than on the day.
Who supplies materials?
Either party can. On maintenance contracts a consumables allowance is normal and anything above a threshold comes back to you with a quote. On defined works, materials are priced in the package and the specification is agreed before ordering.
Do you take on systems somebody else installed badly?
Yes, and the first output is usually a condition report rather than a maintenance schedule. Putting a planned calendar over a system with an installation defect makes the defect look maintained. We would rather tell you what we found and let you decide what to fix first.
Go deeper on one discipline
Part of one system
Every division keeps records to the same standard, so the second one you need works the way the first one did.
Book a site survey
MEP problems are rarely one discipline. The survey looks at the plant, the distribution and the records together, and tells you which of the three is actually costing you money.