Facilities Management

Blog post: 03/09/2026 8:29 am

Author: Spark Team

Facilities engineers regularly work in buildings containing thousands of maintainable assets. Air handling units, fan coil units, pumps, valves, distribution boards, fire systems, sensors and control devices may be spread across multiple floors, risers, ceiling voids and plant areas. The challenge is often not simply repairing the equipment. It is finding the right asset, confirming exactly what it is and retrieving the correct information before work begins. Augmented Reality (AR) offers a way to place this information directly into the engineer's working environment. Using a tablet, smartphone or compatible headset, a bespoke AR application can help identify equipment and provide contextual access to manuals, SOPs, asset records and maintenance information.

Blog post: 20/08/2026 9:52 am

Author: Spark Team

Plant rooms are among the most operationally important areas of any commercial building, hospital, university, data centre, hotel or industrial facility. They can also be difficult places in which to train. Boilers, pumps, electrical distribution equipment, air handling units, pressurisation systems and controls may all be operating simultaneously, leaving little room for inexperienced engineers to practise procedures without affecting live services. Virtual Reality (VR) provides another option. By creating a bespoke digital representation of a facility and turning its Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) into interactive exercises, facilities management teams can rehearse plant-room tasks before carrying them out on the real equipment.