Context
Alongside the waterway network it holds under concession, Voies navigables de France manages a property estate of 410,000 m² across 4,100 buildings and seven regional directorates, on a combined operating and investment budget of €15M. Each directorate had its own practice. VNF set out to align them on one policy, and to move from short-horizon corrective maintenance to preventive maintenance carried by multi-year plans.
Our solution
- 01 Survey the organisation The property organisation reviewed to find where it could be improved.
- 02 Structure the knowledge nationally The knowledge of the estate structured and consolidated at national level, with proposals on how to organise around it.
- 03 Put the data to work in Simeo The estate's data structured in Oxand Simeo™, and several predictive-maintenance and investment scenarios simulated.
- 04 Roll out across seven directorates A deployment plan for Oxand Simeo™ drawn up for all seven regional directorates.
What Oxand delivered
An efficient property organisation
An organisation compatible with a leaner headcount, and one policy shared by the regional directorates.
Estate knowledge consolidated
Knowledge that no longer depends on who holds it in each directorate.
Needs projected over years
The multi-year projection of preventive and corrective maintenance needs.
Lower spend, risk still held
Overall spend reduced while keeping control of risk, on objective grounds for decision.
Questions about this reference
What property estate does VNF manage?
410,000 m² across 4,100 buildings, alongside the waterway network the organisation holds under concession, followed by seven regional directorates.
What does moving to preventive maintenance change?
Corrective maintenance deals with what has failed, in the year it fails. Preventive maintenance places the work before the failure, which means knowing how the estate ages — and lets the spend be spread across a multi-year plan instead of being absorbed as it comes.
Why one policy across the directorates?
Because seven different practices produce seven surveys that cannot be compared. One policy and a shared reference make it possible to arbitrate between directorates on the same criteria.
What does VNF hold at the end?
A property organisation with a tool behind it, its estate knowledge consolidated nationally, and multi-year projections of need on which its trade-offs can rest.