September 14, 2007—ARCHIBUS, Inc., a leading developer of Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management solutions, has announced the implementation of its ARCHIBUS solution by the Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) to support its major, ten-year initiative to upgrade its educational facilities into modern 21st century learning environments.
To ensure this investment in upgraded facilities and equipment was protected over time, the district implemented ARCHIBUS Web-based applications for Building Operations Management, Space Management, and Furniture & Equipment Management applications
CPS collaborates with the Ohio School Facilities Commission to fund renovations and new construction. To that end, the commission releases a design manual that all school districts’ architects must comply with. CPS must, therefore, submit a maintenance plan to the commission in order to receive funding for ongoing maintenance on their buildings.
Once the commission receives this data, it generates reports on CPS assets and prescribes preventive maintenance procedures. Using this information, the district develops an ongoing maintenance and capital replacement budget for each new school.
In adopting ARCHIBUS, CPS is also making the transition from centralized, manual work-order processing to a distributed, self-service Web-based system for processing work requests, which number over 15,000 annually.
ARCHIBUS is a global provider of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management solutions and services. For more on the company, see its Web site as well as the company’s ad on FMLink.
