Building maintenance is critical for ensuring a structure’s longevity, safety, and aesthetics, making regularly scheduled maintenance an essential building management practice. Traditional building maintenance methods often involve large-scale operations like scaffolding or civil machinery like mechanical lifts, which can be cumbersome, time-consuming, expensive and create potential safety hazards. Rope access, however, offers a less intrusive, efficient and reliable solution for height-risk maintenance and is growing in popularity with property owners and building management professionals. This article explores how rope access can be applied to different types of buildings and why it is gaining a reputation as a safer, more efficient,