Digital Building Condition Surveys for Modern Digital Estates Management

Replace spreadsheets, paper forms, and guesswork with a centralised, data-driven platform for building condition surveys and lifecycle planning.

Introducing BCSS

BCSS (Building Condition Survey Solution) is a mobile survey platform developed with Lancaster University to help estates teams collect consistent, reliable building condition data.

Designed around BCIS principles and fully configurable to your own elemental structure, contract rates and lifecycle assumptions, BCSS enables surveyors to capture data on-site and produce accurate, audit-ready outputs without the spreadsheet processing and manual rework that often follows traditional surveys.

Whether you're managing a university campus, NHS estate or local authority portfolio, BCSS provides the trusted condition data needed to support maintenance planning, capital investment and long-term estate management—integrating seamlessly with CAFM platforms such as Planon and business intelligence tools including Tableau.

Everything you need to go from site survey to reliable estate data, in one system.

Why Choose BCSS

• Instant Results – Surveys completed digitally, data saved instantly.
• Total Control – View your entire estate structure — buildings, floors, rooms.
• Smart Forecasting – Generate costed lifecycle plans in seconds.
• BCIS & Custom Costs – Built on BCIS structures using your own real-world elements and rates for instant, final results with zero post-survey editing.
• Integrated Operating – Export to FM or CAFM systems and re-import completion data.
• Flexible Overviews – Use BCSS's built-in dashboards or seamlessly export clean data directly into your own platforms like Tableau, PowerBI, or Planon.
• Custom Reporting – Set up all the specific reports you require.
• Safe & Secure – Cloud-based, centrally stored, and access-controlled.

Building surveys shouldn't end in spreadsheets

Traditional condition surveys often leave estates teams spending weeks checking, cleaning and restructuring data before it can be used.

BCSS captures condition data once and produces consistent outputs that are ready for lifecycle planning, CAFM systems and business intelligence tools.

About Us

Orange Technology is a UK based software development company that has been building innovative operational and people development products since 1995. The company launched its first web-based SaaS solution in 2005, and a series of innovative products since.

We have experience of developing solutions for both academia and broad business sectors. Over 1,000,000 UK students have utilised our induction platform since its inception.

We help businesses and organisations globally to save time, effort and money by deploying our software to streamline their processes and solve important problems through innovation. We understand the importance of creating easy to use applications for everyday tasks.

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