Facility Condition Assessments

Surveying, Identifying, and Recommending Corrective Measures

Entech is very familiar with the challenges facing facility managers in overseeing and maintaining the significant assets under their care. To meet these challenges, Entech employs a unique Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) process employing a dedicated team of architects, engineers, and facility analysts. These experienced professionals survey current buildings and systems, identify significant deficiencies, and recommend corrective measures.

An integral component of our service is the FM-Assistant© database that is provided to clients fully populated with all FCA information. This easy-to-use-and-maintain database accelerates the organization and communication associated with the analysis, budgeting, and planning of facilities management.

We take great pride in this valuable service, which is frequently customized to meet each client’s needs.

Entech has specialized in providing FCAs since 1995. Our clients include higher education, governmental, commercial, and industrial organizations. Our experience and readiness to respond to our clients’ unique requirements has promoted additional services that complement our FCA.


FCA Group Services



Facility Condition Assessments

The Facility Condition Assessments (FCA) Group provides professional investigations of buildings and systems, identifies significant deficiencies, and recommends corrective measures. This service can also include the use of our customized FM-Assistant© Database that was designed specifically for managing campus-type facilities.

Asset Collection

Major mechanical, electrical, and plumbing components throughout a facility can be identified and recorded in a dynamic database for the facilities manager’s reference. This is a core service that can be a stand-alone deliverable; or coupled with Equipment Barcoding, Preventative Maintenance Schedules, and Detailed Building Equipment Inventory services to provide a comprehensive set of facility management tools.

Equipment Barcoding

As a function of Asset Collection, each individual mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection component throughout a facility will be given a unique identifying Barcode. These Barcodes are placed on the equipment, recorded in barcode scanners, and documented on Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) drawings allowing facilities managers and their staff a comprehensive overview of the equipment in their care.

Preventive Maintenance Schedules

Based on the information gathered on the equipment during the asset collection, Entech will develop Preventive Maintenance Schedules for the Operation & Maintenance needs of the major mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection components throughout the facility. The schedules follow industry standards for equipment life cycle maintenance as tempered by input from the facilities’ staff.

Detailed Building Equipment Inventory

Detailed Equipment Inventory is the premier service bringing together the Asset Collection, Barcode, and Preventive Maintenance Schedule services into one dynamic, hyperlinked CAFM tool. Assets are located on CAD drawings, which when selected, expand to reveal their descriptions, types and subtypes, model numbers, etc., and link to their Preventive Maintenance Schedule. Correspondingly, data can be displayed in pivot tables that launch equipment locations and related information.

IT Inventory Tracking Services

To support facilities Information Technology (IT) departments, Entech has developed an IT Inventory Tracking module in FM-Assistant©. This service employs a method of Asset Collection and Barcoding which is tailored to the needs of IT Departments who are charged with tracking and maintaining computer equipment in facilities with significant IT maintenance, equipment turnover, as well as user relocations.

Database Development

Entech maintains a full-time staff dedicated to database development in support of our clients’ ever changing needs. In concert with Entech’s award-winning FM-Assistant© software, various database customizations are developed to accommodate a myriad of facilities related requirements such as the Environmental Database tracking the Federal and State environmental reporting rigors, the Historic Preservation Information Database used as a vessel to collect Historic Structures Reporting information and tracking irreplaceable historic assets throughout the facilities, and the 5-Year CIP Module that expands on the FCA data in FM-Assistant© to create a modeling tool for various Capital Improvement scenarios for federal facilities.

Historic Preservation Inventory Database

Responding to the needs of our clients with significant historical structures in their portfolios, Entech developed a Historic Preservation Inventory Database (HPID). The Historic Preservation Inventory Database acts as a vessel to collect Historic Structures Reporting information and track irreplaceable historic assets throughout the facilities. The HPID can also be used to designate unique Restoration and Rehabilitation zones throughout the facilities that require a heightened level of consideration when grouped with pending deferred maintenance and capital improvement projects, as tracked in FM-Assistant©.

Environmental Database

The Environmental Database allows the facilities managers and their in-house environmental compliance staff to track, collect, and report on the environmental impact of plant activities. The database compiles information on plant air and water discharges, and utility charges, and is capable of producing a series of daily, monthly, and annual reporting for state and federal agencies. The Environmental Database can also be a repository for the plant’s OSHA compliance documentation, digitized MSDS forms, and asbestos-related compliance information, among other requirements.

Forensic Architectural Services for Litigation

Building upon Entech’s capabilities in the FCA arena, the FCA Group has begun providing services to Facilities Owners and their Counsel in support of litigation. This highly specialized service expands upon the FCA and offers forensic architectural services investigating causation of building failures, forensic review of Construction Documents and related administrative correspondences, and cost estimating leading to the establishment of liquidated damages.

Understanding the Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) process.

To learn more about the FCA process, download Understanding the Facility Condition Assessments Process.

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