Custom app development for recording recognised measures in your properties
Which recognised measures apply to a building depends on what is inside it. That question is rarely answered behind a desk. Someone walks through the boiler room, looks at a nameplate and assesses what is there. What they see determines the entire file that follows.
Why the survey determines the file
The Dutch energy saving obligation leads to two outcomes per measure: carry it out, or demonstrate that the measure is technically or practically not applicable to this situation. Both answers depend on what is actually present in the building, because the recognised measures are linked to installations and building components.
The Recognised Measures Lists consist of three parts: buildings, facilities and processes, each divided into categories. Which categories are relevant to a building follows from the survey. A wrongly recorded boiler or a missed category carries through into everything recorded afterwards.
In practice, the survey goes wrong over small things. The nameplate is behind a pipe, the brand is legible but the year of construction is not, or the room is numbered differently on the drawing than on the door. Whoever fills that in from memory at the end of the day turns an observation into a recollection.
On top of that, a measure is cheapest at a natural moment: during a replacement or a renovation that was coming anyway. If during the survey you see that an installation is nearing the end of its service life, you immediately know which moment is coming. That is information that only arises on site.
How we build this
The core is the space and the installation within it. Everything that is observed is tied to the place where it was observed, not to the day someone entered it.
The surveyor walks past rooms and installations in a fixed order, so nothing is skipped because it was tucked away at the back.
Type, brand, year of construction and condition, with a photo of the nameplate. The photo is the evidence behind the entry.
From what has been recorded follows which recognised measures are relevant to this building. This happens during the survey, not afterwards.
The survey feeds into the building register, where the status per measure and the justification are kept.
What the app does in practice
The on-site survey carries the whole. What else you need depends on the number of buildings and on whether you survey yourselves or hire an adviser.
Survey route per building
Rooms and installations in a fixed order, with a counter showing what is still open. Returning costs more than moving on.
Photographing the nameplate
A photo of the plate is quicker and more reliable than retyping, and remains the evidence behind the entered details.
Works without signal
Boiler rooms, cellars and technical rooms rarely have coverage. The app works offline and synchronises as soon as a connection is available.
Measures during the survey
As soon as it is known what is present, the app shows which recognised measures are relevant. The surveyor can give their view on the spot.
Recording the replacement moment
If an installation is nearing the end of its service life, the surveyor records it as an upcoming natural moment.
Multiple sites in a row
If you're visiting three branches in one day, you don't want to log in three times and hunt for the same fields each time.
Who we build for
How the survey is carried out varies by organisation. Four situations.
Facilities staff
They know the building best and can see replacements coming, but rarely have time to survey something twice.
Energy advisers
If you survey for several clients, you want one way of working and a survey the client can maintain themselves afterwards.
Technical managers
They know what's really there, including what was once fitted and never made it onto a drawing.
Property owners with many sites
For them, the survey isn't a one-off project but a round that moves a little further forward each year.
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The lists are updated and the payback period is extended, so more measures come into scope. Categories, input fields and installation types should be configurable rather than fixed within the app.
Why Appfront
A survey from memory is an estimate
What gets filled in at the end of the day misses exactly the details that matter later. We build the input for use on site.
The photo is the evidence
A photo of the nameplate settles every argument about make, model and year of manufacture. Retyping doesn't.
The natural moment can only be seen on site
That a boiler is nearing the end of its life shows in its condition. We have the surveyor record it straight away.
We do not advise on your installation
Which measure is technically suitable is a question for your adviser. We make sure the survey is accurate, because that is what their advice is based on.
Security and privacy
A survey contains data about your buildings and installations, and sometimes about tenants' spaces. We set access by role and by site, give an external surveyor only the buildings they are scheduled for, and log every view. Anything stored locally on the device is encrypted and can be wiped remotely if a phone is lost.
For this topic, the reliability of the moment is what counts. An observation that was altered weeks later is no longer a survey. We record findings in an immutable way with time, place and person, even when synchronisation happens later, and any correction is shown as a visible amendment alongside the original entry. How we handle security ourselves is set out in our information security policy.
Frequently asked questions about surveying approved measures
Because the survey takes place in boiler rooms and cellars, with a torch and no signal. What can't be done in a few steps there gets filled in later, and then it's an estimate.
What is in the space: type, make, year of manufacture and condition, with a photo of the nameplate behind each entry as evidence. From that follows which approved measures come into view for this building.
The app shows which measures come into view based on what has been recorded. Whether a measure is technically suitable remains a judgement for your adviser.
In the building register, where the status and justification of each measure are tracked. We describe that file on our page about EML software.
Yes, and that is a common case. An external surveyor only gets the buildings they are scheduled for, and their findings land in the same file.
Yes. An identified replacement can flow into the system where the work is already being scheduled. See our approach to building an app.
Are you sure you know what is in your boiler room?
Pick one site and ask for the survey on which the measures file is based. If there are no photos, the file rests on what someone remembered. We build this as a standalone app and as part of a broader app development project.