Kerry Boyce, Director of Maintenance at the University of Warwick, joins the Comparesoft Maintenance Podcast to explore what it truly takes to maintain a 710-acre university estate with over 500 buildings, thousands of student residents, and more than a million assets.

In this episode, Kerry discusses:

• The real scale and diversity of assets across a major university estate from research laboratories to student residences and theatre spaces
• How she built asset visibility from day one, combining desktop data review with boots-on-the-ground faculty visits
• The unique operational challenges of higher education compared to transport and performance venues
• How to prioritise maintenance under constrained budgets using safety, compliance, and operational resilience as guiding lenses
• Her practical framework for deciding whether to repair, refurbish, or replace an asset
• What the reactive-to-PPM ratio tells you about the sustainability of your maintenance operation
• The three actions any maintenance leader should take first when moving from reactive to lifecycle-led strategy