Helping education facilities juggle the demands of maintenance and record keeping in one easy solution.
myBuildings can help you streamline requests, remain compliant, track who is on campus, report spend on your assets and plan for capital expenditure effortlessly.
Our approach to educational facilities
myBuildings is a practical, scalable, configurable and complete facilities management system to help you proactively manage and maintain your institution’s assets in one central place.
We know that the education sector in Australia has seen significant challenges in recent years, with rising costs, reducing enrolment in some sectors and national staffing shortages. Our system can help you understand where your expenditure is going, forecast for asset replacements and reduce your reactive costs, ensuring your facility remains viable for the long term.
The education industry is still trying to recover from the pandemic, as well as adapt to policy shifts and hybrid learning models. Recent changes to the National Construction Code 2025 mean that increased maintenance standards are also being enforced.
According to the Business Council of Australia, educational capital and infrastructure costs have risen by more than 26% in recent years, which is not keeping pace with enrolment growth.
Stronger rules to prevent water ingress, fire safety for car parks and stricter energy efficiency measures, including potential solar arrays, under the latest National Construction Code published February 2026, mean costs must be planned for.
These higher infrastructure and operational costs, combined with international enrolment caps, will strain revenues for traditional brick and mortar institutions. Alongside this pressure, persistent teaching shortages are limiting capacity for student growth, and therefore income, particularly in rural areas.
Educational leaders must shift from reactive, fragmented decision making to a more proactive and sustainable model.
Key Impacts for Facility Managers
In the facility management space, priorities are still health and safety, with need for safe and inclusive facilities and increased maintenance standards from the National Construction Code 2025 and the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic) or Education Act (Qld), for example. But cost-effective maintenance and sustainability have also come to the forefront of concerns, due to changing climate and general cost pressures.
To create sustainable operations, it will take more than cost control, for example, it will require enrolment forecasts aligned with payroll trends, and capital planning linked to long-term financial models.
Key issues for FM:
Health and Safety: Facility managers in education must ensure buildings are structurally sound, and maintain HVAC systems for air quality and ventilation, to support student and teacher wellbeing. Student safety is critical and so using only approved and pre-qualified contractors who have undergone checks is vital.
Routine Maintenance: Annual visual inspections of roofs, electrical switchboards, plumbing, and grounds are now more important, to identify issues early and plan for asset replacements. Vice Chancellors or Principals (often delegating to Facility Managers) are responsible for routine tasks like repairs, renovations, and record-keeping to prolong asset lifespan.
Ensuing sustainability: Indoor air quality, acoustics and lighting are all linked to construction code compliance and legislative requirements. Facility Managers must schedule maintenance effectively, planning for suitable replacements to avoid costly unplanned callouts and ensure quality is upheld. Understanding asset life cycle is increasingly important, to help advise on long term value, and plan for capital expenditure.
Increased reporting: Maintenance records and Essential Safety Measures audits are critical to ensure legal adherence and portfolios often involve many buildings, assets and campuses. Managing this effectively and efficiently can involve significant time, away from core value activities.
myBuildings helps you control all these complex requirements in one simple solution.
Our industry proven software can manage your entire daily facility management workflow and ensure compliance for educational facilities; from storing critical asset information, to seeking quotes, raising maintenance requests, assigning to approved contractors, through to completion and accounts payable – effortlessly.
Key benefits of using myBuildings:
Being proactive in asset management will reduce your risk and reactive maintenance costs, increasing your viability.
Ensuring teacher requests can be raised easily, via classroom based QR codes, and met promptly, with auto generated work orders, will ensure compliance, quality and protect your campuses.
Fixed pricing, not by campus or building, no surprises
No hardware or complicated apps are required
Student safe – know who is on site and when
Dashboards and custom checklists for compliance reporting in real time
Align your maintenance activities with teaching calendars to minimise disruption
Minimal risk - education industry proven for 30+ years
Allows for strategic asset management, storing building condition audits etc.
Proven integration with financial system and contractor management providers.
Education clients include:
Learn more about our features and benefits for education.
Download our two page brochure for the educational sector by clicking the link below.
