Facility Condition Assessments: An Introduction
Buildings magazine had a recent article about Facility Condition Assessments recommending they be performed (and revisited) within 5-year windows. While routine inspections are good for routine maintenance and to address short-term problems, Facility Condition Assessments, "are a tool to help building owners prioritize repairs, replacements, upgrades, and modernization projects, and "essentially put together a plan of what it's going to take to keep this building operating for the short term, mid-term and long-term," explained Matt Munter, executive vice president, technical assessments, for Bureau Veritas, a provider of testing, inspection, and certification services. "Typically, for us, an owner is looking at a 10-year action window. They want to know, 'What am i going to have to put back into this building to keep it functioning?'" full article here: buildings.com/building-systems-om/article/55269833/facility-condition-assessments-what-you-need-to-know