When educators help guide facility renewal and modernization investments, enormous financial and educational value can be created By Lance Roberts, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba, and Wayne C. Cole, Learning Environment Specialist, Johnson Controls Canada
As soon as school facilities are construct-
ment approaches are utilized to assess
establish some measure of facility con-
ed, they begin the unavoidable process
and track the physical deterioration of
dition index is appropriate to fulfill the
of physical deterioration. The stewards
building components, and to determine
purposes for which they were developed
of these building assets have a clear
the level of investment needed to re-
– to measure how degraded the physical
duty to manage the impact of this physi-
store these components to their original
components of a school facility are.
cal deterioration to optimize the useful
condition. With these common assess-
While property management and
lifespan of these assets, and to ensure
ment methodologies, an effort is made
engineering assessments may be use-
that building deterioration does not in-
to prioritize the timetable for making
ful for managing physical deterioration,
terfere with the educational mission for
such investments. There is no doubt that
research evidence about school facilities
which these buildings exist.
schools are physical structures and sys-
makes it clear that any assumption that
Across the nation, various property
tems and, like others, they deteriorate.
this assessment provides meaningful in-
management and engineering assess-
Therefore using such methodologies to
formation about the quality of the teach-
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