Project Profile

Air Force Reserve Command Roofing Management Program
Various Locations

Facility Engineering Associates, PC (FEA) completed the implementation of a roofing Asset Management Plan for the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC). The AFRC came to FEA for assistance in developing a program that would fit within their budget and manpower restraints, yet provide consistent, repeatable, objective data from which to make management decisions. The AFRC required that the program allow each roof to be evaluated annually for potential capital expenditures and major maintenance requirements without significant cost.

The AFRC sought to implement an objective evaluation process that could be applied command-wide. In the first phases of the Asset Management Plan development, AFRC identified approximately 500,000 square feet of roof systems at various Air Force bases. The selected roofs were varied in type and served buildings of diverse sizes, shapes, locations, and uses. FEA developed a systematic, simplified approach to rank the roofs in order of criticality for replacement. This schema was then applied to the various roofs. The intent was to achieve an objective score and ranking for each building by allowing minimally-trained on-base maintenance personnel to utilize the schema to quickly and accurately evaluate each roof.

In development of the Asset Management Plan, FEA also reviewed the existing maintenance procedures and policies at both bases. FEA’s charge was to identify both positive and negative aspects of the existing maintenance procedures and include a discussion of how the procedures could be modified and/or incorporated into the Asset Management Plan. This effort involved several levels of interviews with base contracting officers, base maintenance personnel, and base engineering staff. FEA’s findings were consolidated into a critique report to allow the AFRC to improve roof asset management both on the bases and command wide.
 

Client Benefits

  • Asset Management Programs derived the maximum return on investment, while paying for themselves through reduced maintenance and replacement costs
  • Prioritized O&M requests provided a clear, objective method for evaluating and measuring results
  • A simple Prioritization Schema allowed for on-base personnel to initially perform fast and accurate roof evaluations in a short time frame while also enabling easy updates to the Asset Management Plan in the future