by Rebecca Walker — August 11, 2010—VFA, Inc., a leading provider of solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management, announced that the Maine Department of Education (DOE) is using its VFA.facility and VFA.auditor to establish a standard self-assessment process across 179 School Administrative Units (SAUs) and 652 public schools in the state. The Maine DOE will be better able to calculate maintenance costs, forecast future capital renewal costs and better maintain accurate facility data.
Maine students are achieving nationally high academic ranks and the Maine DOE is dedicated to continuing with a competitive standard of education. Ensuring quality of school facilities further supports the mission of superior education.
Maine has selected VFA’s suite of solutions to cost-effectively meet the capital improvement needs of public schools. Suitable for a range of users, the solution enables the Maine DOE to catalogue and update data on buildings ranging from historic to modern.
Implementation of VFA.auditor, VFA’s self-assessment survey application, allows the Maine DOE to collect and report data on school facilities, while VFA.facility, VFA’s capital planning and asset management solution, provides a facilities management tool for SAUs. The solution has helped to develop an assessment methodology, establish a standard for collecting building data used to populate the VFA.facility database, and effectively present information for decision-making.
The combination of VFA.facility and VFA.auditor will help the Maine DOE create a statewide school facilities management system that is used to assess the overall condition of each building, determine needed maintenance, and forecast financial needs. For more information, see the VFA Web site.
