April 29, 2002—Georgia’s Fulton County has implemented VFAs Capital Planning and Management Solutions (CPMS) approach as part of Fulton’s five-year capital improvement plan. Fulton County selected VFA to perform a detailed condition analysis of six facilities across the region, totaling more than 900,000 square feet of space.
VFA’s Capital Planning and Management Solutions, an integration of enterprise-level technology and assessment methodology, allows users to assess and measure building conditions, update condition information rapidly and communicate the data to facility managers and superiors at sites across the country.
By incorporating facility maintenance with its long-term capital planning efforts, Fulton County officials can forecast the optimal use and best-practice funding strategies of each building in its portfolio over the building’s lifecycle.
Using Web-architected VFA facility software in combination with VFA’s facility condition assessment methodology, the county is better able to identify and prioritize deferred maintenance and renewal projects, short and longer-term repairs, recommended improvements and code non-compliance issues.
In order to develop an effective capital improvement plan, Fulton officials must be able to quantify the level of funding needed and to identify the repair or renewal projects where the funds should be invested. As uses of buildings change, the county will need to determine appropriate repair projects and their associated costs. Capital plans based on accurate data provide a detailed picture of facility funding requirements throughout an organization.
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