Foundation provides reliable and justifiable renewal and replacement plans for capital project executives.

The Foundation software platform enables deficiency-based physical asset renewal and replacement management for organizations with multiple buildings and sites. This approach has delivered long-term success for our clients on over $50 billion in building and infrastructure capital plans.

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Foundation produces multi-year project plans based on reliable pre-scope budgets generated from observed deficiencies and modeled future needs.

Foundation.Conditions
Perform field assessments to document deficiencies and determine conditions.
Foundation.Needs
Apply unit cost libraries to generate costs for actions needed to address deficiencies.
Foundation.Plans
Evaluate funding, project selection, and project timing scenarios against plan goals.
Foundation.Projects
Generate projects to address needs through scope and phase rules.

With Foundation's forecast tools, analysts and planners can jump forward and backward in time to understand needs, plan progress, and budget spend at any point. Foundation scenario tools help analysts and planners evaluate plan alternatives. And at any point in time, Foundation can zoom in to higher detail or zoom out for system, building, site, or city summaries.

 

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Lifecycle Renewal and Replacement Planning Using Foundation

Foundation fills a critical gap between CMM, FM, PM, Space Management, and EAM systems. When integrated with these other enterprise systems, Foundation provides a rich planning context.


  • Foundation provides a level of detail suitable for capital-funded renewal and replacement planning while maintaining links to CMMS item inventory and maintenance history
  • Renewal and replacement planning is informed by the organizational and functional context managed in Space Management systems
  • Provides reliable budgets, project phase durations and estimates, and detailed scope elements and documentation for PM systems
  • Maintains connection between in-flight projects managed in the PM system and underlying deficiencies to be corrected
  • Enables trade-off analysis of needs by organizational units, by sites, by systems across sites, by needs related to function, and more

Benefits

  • Consistent and repeatable deficiency capture using Foundation.Condition
  • Proven approach based on deficiencies and quantifiable methods generates reliable and justifiable pre-scope budgets
  • Foundation continually improves current and future budgets based on feedback from actual project history
  • Users can jump forward and back in time, and zoom in and out on level of detail
  • Connected to the enterprise through powerful integration methods and frameworks to provide real-time view and rich context