November 30, 2001—Queen’s University, one of Ontario’s oldest academic institutions, has signed an agreement with VFA, a Web-based facility and capital asset management services and software, to conduct a campus-wide, detailed facilities condition assessment.
Queen’s University will use VFA.facility, a Web-based Capital Planning and Management Solutions (CPMS) software, which the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) recommended last year as the vehicle for a common protocol for evaluating and reporting on the condition of university facilities assets valued at over $10 billion. VFA will also train university staff on VFA’s facilities assessment techniques.
A VFA facilities assessment team will conduct a thorough evaluation of the conditions of approximately 3.7 million square feet of building space spread throughout 76 buildings on the Queen’s University historic, 160-year old campus. Through the condition analysis and capital renewal project, Queen’s will be able to ascertain the present conditions of its facilities, assess the physical plant to ensure that it meets the current and future needs of the university, and determine future funding initiatives and capital project management programs that are required to maintain the functional operation of the physical plant.
The information collected in the assessment will be compiled in a centralized Oracle database utilizing VFA.facility, accessible via a standard Internet browser. Queen’s will also utilize VFA.scenario, which enables funding scenario analysis, and VFA.projectplan, which enables aggregation of identified deficiencies. For more information about VFA’s software and services, visit VFA as well as their ad on FMLink .
