Welcome to our latest blog post, where we delve into the complexities of strategic facility planning for K12 schools as they navigate the ever-changing landscape of health and safety protocols in a post-COVID-19 world. Join us as we explore innovative solutions and best practices that can help K12 schools adapt and thrive in the new normal.
3 Ways Software Improves Strategic Facility Planning for K12 Schools
COVID-19 has emphasized the need for alterations and renovations in K-12 school buildings. Beyond the typical upkeep and general maintenance, there has been a significant escalation in HVAC work requests, increased complexity in maintaining HVAC facilities, and the need for comprehensive air quality updates.
What is Strategic Facility Planning?
Implementing your first Strategic Facility Planning solution or switching to a new one sounds stressful. The school facility team is busy administering reactive work orders, reopening buildings to students and staff, and maintaining hygienic spaces. So why now should you consider implementing a new facility planning tool? Let's unpack the top 3 ways software improves school facility planning!
1. Improves Productivity
The top way software improves K12 school facility planning is that solutions make school facility planning much more manageable and far less stressful in the long term. As you know, schools receive numerous service requests, reactive work orders, and more considerable school conan urgent problems every year. As a result, there is always an urgent problem that needs to be solved. However, with school facility planning software in place, it is possible to transform this reactive maintenance method into a proactive and preventive maintenance methodology.
Learn about the proven benefits of preventive maintenance.
Moving to a preventive maintenance methodology backed by a facility planning software platform allows facility teams to get ahead of larger projects. In addition, it reveals the useful life of components, thereby making it possible to optimize physical assets throughout the entire portfolio across all school buildings. Preventive maintenance is critical for optimizing operational conditions for K-12 School physical assets. This typically involves regular inspections to detect and correct defaults and repair deficiencies before a breakdown occurs.
Read the ultimate guide to improving your preventive maintenance program.
Data is vital in helping school facility managers determine the best approach to motivating supervisors and technicians to stay on track with a high-functioning preventative maintenance program. With The FOUNDATION Solution, K-12 school facility planners can streamline every aspect of the preventive maintenance and facility planning program, including development, scheduling, and tracking. This prevents future failures and reduces overall downtime, increasing productivity and cutting maintenance costs over time.
2. Improves Communication and Transparency
Information on demand when and where you need it? That's the top benefit of using mobile-first school facility planning software. It is easy to access all data about facility condition assessment, the current state of physical assets, and the valuable life of facility components.
Read about Strategic Facility Planning for Higher Ed Facilities and Grounds.
Mobile data-collection technology empowers school facility planners in many ways, including managing work process flows, tracking physical assets, and supervising building facilities. In addition, mobile tech helps facilities managers to communicate, collaborate, and manage workloads more efficiently.
3. Maintain Safer and Healthier Schools Now and in the Future
School buildings are places for teaching, learning, and student development. Now more than ever, maintaining the health and safety of K-12 school facilities for teachers, students, and staff is essential. So when you aren't getting the budget, resources, or support you need, no one is as aware of your school's deficiencies. And that adds stress.
Read our comprehensive guide to getting school facility projects funded.
The appropriate school facility planning software enables schools to meet goals within constrained budgets and limited resources. By tracking assets, data from condition assessments, and preventive maintenance schedules in one spot, it is possible to improve the efficiency of limited resources and take a strategic approach to maintaining schools. School facility planning software improves operational efficiency and provides the data you need to ensure the needs of school facilities are met and easily justified to the school board.
How to Implement Strategic Facility Planning Software for K12
Schools
Not sure where to turn to implement these urgent updates to your school buildings? At Intellis, we have you covered with the FOUNDATION enterprise platform. FOUNDATION simplifies capital planning by efficiently analyzing facility Condition Assessment data and seamlessly creating justifiable Capital Plans. In addition, the FOUNDATION platform seamlessly integrates into your systems to efficiently align funding with the school district's long-term capital plan.
Read the Case Study about how NYC schools used FOUNDATION to improve their capital planning.
Intellis can help transform how you collect and manage data from facility condition assessments and empower you to develop justifiable capital plans to improve school buildings and campus facilities. Our software will help you justify yours and prioritize projects with more intelligent and accurate asset data so that your campus facilities will be more sustainable and safe; this makes it easier to prove that experience. More precise data makes it easier to prove that your capital assets are essential to enhancing the cross-campus environments for teaching, learning, living, and research; donors and grant holders will be proud to contribute support.
Intellis Solutions Improve School Facility Planning
Intellis offers comprehensive solutions for improving school facility planning. Our software aims to decrease downtime and improve maintenance backlog, identify high-priority projects ranked against industry benchmarks, and generate data-rich reports for funding proposals.
Discover the innovations transforming Facility Planning.
We understand the importance of aligning with the school district's mission and budget, and we are committed to helping develop an actionable multi-year, strategic, and justifiable capital improvement plan based on intelligent data and insights. To learn more about how Intellis can help you navigate a smooth course for the future of K12 School Facilities, schedule a demo with us today!
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Discover the essential role of strategic facility planning for K12 schools in the post-COVID-19 era. Learn how innovative software solutions can enhance productivity, improve communication, and maintain safer and healthier school environments. Intellis offers the FOUNDATION enterprise platform, which simplifies capital planning and seamlessly integrates with school systems to align funding with long-term capital plans. Upgrade your school facility planning with FOUNDATION today.
