Blog: Planning

Due to COVID-19, deferred maintenance on HVAC systems is a greater hazard than ever before. The new System Vulnerability Index in VFA Capital Planning Software can help you better understand the condition of your ventilation systems for reopening.

VFA Capital Planning Software platform helps facilities professionals objectively model multi-year capital plans that optimize and align real estate portfolio investments with their mission. By centralizing asset and facility information, this cloud-based software provides the forecasting tools managers need to efficiently gather and maintain facility condition data and then leverage that data to optimize budget decisions about maintenance and capital planning.

Our data experts have been tracking and monitoring the costs of lumber even more diligently since last summer when things were really being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this edition of What the Data Says, we’re taking a look at the extraordinary rise in lumber cost.

For every 100 pounds of construction material brought to the site, 30 of it will be wasted. This creates enormous pressure to recycle, reuse and repurpose wherever possible. Here are eight sustainable construction techniques to help you reduce waste in your building processes.

Medical care facilities were designed with “normal” care business in mind. They were certainly not designed with the flexibility needed to treat pandemic patients. So let's examine a few ways healthcare facilities leaders can create facilities flexibility.