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Van der Weegen professionalises real estate management with IBIS-MAIN

15 November 2017

Van der Weegen professionalises real estate management with IBIS-MAIN

Van der Weegen professionalises real estate management with IBIS-MAIN

With circa 80 employees, Van der Weegen is a medium-sized construction group. The company has been around for a century and a half already and shows the level of involvement one would expect from a family business. The work done by this organisation ranges from developing an entire residential neighbourhood to repairing a single lock – and everything in between.


Future-oriented entrepreneurship

With circa 80 employees, Van der Weegen is a medium-sized construction group. The company has been around for a century and a half already and shows the level of involvement one would expect from a family business. The work done by this organisation ranges from developing an entire residential neighbourhood to repairing a single lock – and everything in between. By learning from the past and reacting in a timely manner to new developments, Van der Weegen – together with its clients and construction partners – develops and realises a multitude of ideas and plans for the future in the area in and around Tilburg. Since the eighties, the organisation has also been investing in its own land and real estate, for which the Real Estate & Management division was founded. “Over the years, we have acquired a wealth of experience with the management and maintenance of both commercial and residential real estate,” says real estate manager Robèrt de Cock. “Earlier this year, we started offering these services to third parties as well. To increase our added value for all clients, we recently implemented the RgdBOEI methodology and the IBIS-MAIN maintenance software.”


Integration of inspections and maintenance

With RgdBOEI, the Government Buildings Agency has developed a methodology that integrates all inspections for fire safety, maintenance, energy and insight in legislation and regulations. “Because this methodology offers our clients more influence on the process, less hindrance from inspections and a better coordination of the maintenance, I took a special training course last year,” De Cock continues. “During that training, I met a real estate manager from the municipality of Zutphen, who told me about his experiences with and the benefits of IBIS-MAIN. Because we were still calculating all maintenance activities in Excel and were in need of a more efficient software solution, we invited Ibis for a demonstration. It became clear that IBIS-MAIN offers extensive features for the optimisation of the management of our own real estate and that it is an excellent tool with which to present our services on the market. Although there are many alternative solutions, part of the reason we chose IBIS-MAIN was the fact that our construction department has been using IBIS-TRAD for its calculations for nearly twenty years now and that both pieces of software can communicate with our Navision ERP software.” van-der-weegen-bouwgroep-1

Perfect tool for real estate management and maintenance

After also completing a training course on using IBIS-MAIN and having worked with the program for six months, De Cock is just as excited about the software as the municipality of Zutphen. “IBIS-MAIN is a perfect tool for the budgeting and planning of our Real Estate & Management services. More than 90% of what is found inside a building or residence can be selected from the standard library, while any missing objects are easy to add yourself. With IBIS-MAIN, we also have much better insight into the annual planning of all necessary activities. We can use it to register maintenance contracts with installers and landscaping companies and generate a complete overview of the annual expenses at the touch of a button. Once the condition assessments and maintenance prognoses for our own real estate objects have been completed, we can offer our services on the commercial market in a professional manner, supported by an integral work method and effective software.”

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