Deferred Maintenance and Master Planning

Across the country, facilities staff, advancement officers, and CFOs alike are tackling deferred maintenance and master planning to ensure safety, reliability, and efficiency. Those responsible recognize how daunting this is, especially with tighter budgets, less state funding, and project backlogs. “When deferred maintenance is addressed early and often with an understanding of which priorities to […]

Three Ways VR/AR Engages Audiences While Building Consensus

Seeing your building project on paper is one step closer to becoming a reality but, thanks to technology advancements in Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), you can now see a project in 3D and start using it to build consensus, early in the process. This is good news for Owners, but before getting into specifics, […]

The Value of a Facilities Audit

How one small, private college shifted their approach to maintaining campus buildings while saving time, money “How old are our systems?” “How much time is left before we have to replace our equipment and facilities?” “What is the condition of our roofs?”  “Where are we right now?”  “How can we maintain our facilities?” On most […]

SCOPE: Your Facility Assessment Dashboard

To effectively and efficiently analyze data contained in master plans, Schmidt Associates offers Strategic Capture of Planning Elements (SCOPE). This interactive dashboard allows facilities staffs to easily utilize, edit, and sort information by facility or project type, priority, and need, making your deferred maintenance planning easier.