Step-by-step guide to your facility condition assessment (FCA)

How healthy is your facility? With a facility condition assessment (FCA), you get a comprehensive medical record plus an up-to-date medical chart for your facility, helping make the right prescriptions based on a solid understanding of your facility’s history and current condition. Without it, you can’t make good decisions on capital planning, resource allocation, and preventive maintenance.  

But generating an FCA can require careful planning and monitoring. So, here is your guide to ensuring the best outcomes.  

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How to set and protect your maintenance budget for return to office

It feels like every week there’s a new workplace trend, with everyone racing to explain the latest seismic shifts coming from the massive move to remote work. We quickly gave up on the Great Resignation so we could share our feelings on The Great Regret, but now everyone’s going back and forth on boomerang employees.

For facility and maintenance managers, though, the most important trend remains return to office. With more people coming into your facilities more often, you need to ramp up both on-demand and scheduled maintenance.

But because your organization might have spent the last few years shedding office square footage and running onsite skeleton crews, you could be working with a reduced budget.

So, how can you set and protect your facility maintenance budget now that everything is starting up again?

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