Committing to the Cost of Ownership Maintenance and Repair of Public Buildings (1990) / Chapter Skim
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~ There is no compiled estimate of current replacement value for all publicly owned buildings. The committee drew these- examples primarily from recently published reports and notes the variety of methods used to determine replacement costs: insured values, appraised values, unit costs to reconstruct per square foot of facility space.
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The commissioning and occupancy of a new facility are a newsworthy event that attracts public attention, but the ongoing work of maintenance and repair receives little notice except when failures occur that affect the ability of a facility's users to perform their work. At local levels particularly, few government entities recognize their buildings as more than a "trapping incidental to the provision of public services, to be maintained at the lowest possible cost" (ICMA, 1989~.
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2 to ask the Building Research Board (BRB) of the National Research Council to undertake a broad review of the operation, maintenance, and repair activities of federal facilities.
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A statement endorsed by the BRB,s PFC sponsors in 1987 urged the undertaking of a research project that would "lead to a determination of the percentage of building replacement cost that should be reinvested annually in building maintenance in order to protect the original investment, assure structural integrity, assure continuous usage within designed capacity, and reduce the potential for system breakdown or ~ncapacitation."3 The PFC thus became cosponsors of the study that led to this report.
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The APWA's Research Foundation subsequently approved a research project to be sponsored and supported by APWA members to use the results of the BRB committee's work to develop tools, techniques, and procedures for use by facility managers at state and local levels to forecast maintenance and repair needs. The Research Foundation plans to develop training materials to make these management aids accessible to a broad audience through an APWA-sponsored workshop series.
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Builcling owners, designers, and managers generally make decisions about maintenance, repairs, operations, and alterations with an assumed design service life in mind, typically between 10 and 30 years. Maintenance is the upkeep of property and equipment, work necessary to realize the originally anticipated useful life of a fixed asset.
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Replacement may arise from obsolescence, cumulative effect of wear and tear throughout the anticipated service lifetime, premature service failure, or destruction through exposure to fire or other hazard. In contrast to repair, replacement generally involves a complete identifiable item of investment (i.e., a major building component or subsystem)
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- The second component, backlog reduction, is related to the level of funding available for routine maintenance and repair and the effectiveness of the owner's maintenance efforts. If maintenance and repair needs that should be addressed on an ongoing basis are neglected, the backlog of deferred deficiencies grows.
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