June 6, 2008 MACTEC’s Facility Lifecycle Group, the facility asset management software and services operating division of MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc. (MACTEC) has been awarded a contract by the Georgia Building Authority (GBA) to assess the condition of 13 Capitol Hill buildings in Atlanta.
GBA is responsible for all services associated with managing 48 buildings and various facilities located in the Capitol Hill complex, including the Georgia State Capitol building and the Governors Mansion.
According to MACTEC Program Manager Russ Watson, the project is a prototype facility asset management program for the State of Georgia that will improve the stewardship of state-owned and managed facility assets. Facility asset management is a business process/decision-making framework drawing from both economics and engineering it considers a broad range of assets and variables.
The pilot project will use Vertex,, MACTEC FLG’s flagship product, which creates and defines assessment project measurement metric and statistics, and provides software deliverables to field assessment teams. Vertex is a facility decision support system based on data from field assessments. The Web-based facility asset management software is a capital planning tool that will enable GBA to generate detailed information regarding the condition of an asset, forecast its remaining useful life, and run budget, forecasting, and lifecycle cost scenarios.
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