Overview of Facility Assessment
IBM® TRIRIGA® Facility Assessment is a process that is used to analyze the existing and projected future condition of facilities, and the building systems and assets within those facilities.
The process is made up of four main steps. First, you plan and set up the assessment details, then you conduct the assessment. After the assessment, you analyze the findings, and then begin addressing the opportunities for improvement. The assessment process enables organizations to address the operational requirements along with required funding requirements.
- Planning and setup: Before you begin assessing the condition of facilities by using the IBM TRIRIGA Facility Assessment application, you define your assessment and analysis program goals and criteria. Then, you develop the standards, templates, procedures, and setup data that is required to support those goals.
- Assessing: You can perform facility and system inspections to identify the physical and functional condition of the facility and its component systems. You can identify opportunities for improvement and estimate costs that are associated with addressing the opportunities.
- Analyzing: You can maintain real-time and historical Facility Condition Index (FCI) and System Condition Index (CI) ratings. By facility analyzing, you can determine funding alternatives and priorities and review against targets and goals that are established during planning phase.
- Addressing opportunities: You can develop short and long-term facilities plans and plan and launch facilities and capital projects to improve the condition of facilities. You integrate opportunity remediation with ongoing corrective and preventive maintenance programs. The facility and system condition, opportunity status, and overall FCI/CI are updated as projects and tasks are completed.
Figure 1. Overview of facility assessment process