August 30, 2002—VFA, Inc. has announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected its Capital Planning and Management Solutions (CPMSTM) approach. CPMS, an integration of condition assessment services and pure Web technology, will be implemented as a core component of NIH’s efforts to establish an organization-wide process for facility lifecycle management. VFA will work with NIH to assess more than nine million square feet of building space at Bethesda, Md., and other sites.
NIH’s Office of Research Services completes a condition assessment of its facility portfolio on a three-year cycle, which includes research laboratories, hospitals and administration buildings. VFA’s assessment methodology empowers NIH with a strategic process for conducting audits of its building conditions, setting benchmarks and achieving established standards of quality.
“Due to the highly sensitive nature of the research we perform, it is critical that we have a clear handle on our facility conditions and a process by which we can understand where to direct resources for building requirements,” said Ed Bain, National Institutes of Health.
VFA facility—VFA’s benchmark software solution—is a Web-based enterprise solution that enables users to gather and maintain a repository of detailed building information across an entire property portfolio to support a coordinated and comprehensive approach to facilities capital management.
VFA’s Capital Planning and Management Solutions, an integration of enterprise-level technology and assessment methodology, empowers 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.
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