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Sustainability Assessment

Providing an environmentally-friendly building that improves the balance between people and facilities is an important philosophy for many companies. Not only can an environmentally-friendly building provide a healthy environment for employees and the surrounding community, it can improve efficiency and reduce costs. Regular sustainability assessment enables organizations to conduct business in ways that ensure the long-term future of the planet, its resources, and its people.

With the Sustainability Assessment application, you first document and diagnose the “green” state of your facility by asking the following types of questions for each equipment item and location:

Is this promoting good air quality?
Is this conserving energy?
Is this conserving natural resources?
Does this meet government environmental regulations?
Are waste products being disposed of properly? Are they hurting the environment?

Once you identify problems in your facility, you can plan how to resolve them using the application's prioritizing and cost estimating tools. You can then manage their resolution using the tasks of this application. If you have the Corrective Maintenance application, you can use work orders to manage the resolution process.

With the Sustainability Assessment application, you focus on ranking your environmental issues, including hazardous materials. For information on the ways that other Archibus applications support the management of hazardous materials, see Managing Hazardous Materials with Archibus Applications.

Sustainability Assessment
Location	This is available in both Archibus SaaS and the Archibus non-SaaS offering. Sustainability & Risk / Sustainability Assessment
Business Result	Provide a "green" facility that complies with governmental regulations and meets your company's goals for social responsibility. Save energy. Preserve natural resources. Improve operational efficiency. Reduce operational costs.
Used By	Field Assessors Assessment Managers Business Process Owners Building Owners
Reasons for Automating	Provide a system for field assessors verifying the environmental sustainability of the facility. Enable assessment procedures to take advantage of highly portable devises such as mobile devices and Tablet PCs. Provide analysis of assessment data to aid decision-making. Focus attention on the high-priority, high-impact deficiencies. Provide a system for prioritizing deficiencies. Automatically generate work orders for addressing deficiencies. Take advantage of classifications developed by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), which provide a common system of organizing facilities, infrastructure, and construction data.
Prerequisite Applications	Space Inventory documented to the Room Inventory level Equipment Inventory
Reports/Results	Environmental Sustainability Scoreboard Assessment Project Statistics by Location Building Sustainability Summary Assessments with Sustainability Ratings Greater than 25 Open Energy Issues Work Request Summary by Active Assessment Items Work Request Statistics by Assessment Project Unacceptable Assessment Items by Priority Costs and Ratings by Classification ... reports Equipment Assessment by Level 3 Classification Highlight Locations with Issues ... reports
Applications Using the Results of this Application	Corrective Maintenance Capital Budgeting Assessments mobile app

The following users are typically involved in assessing the sustainability of a facility and resolving deficiencies.

User	Task
Field Assessor	Travel throughout the facility documenting the sustainability status of rooms and equipment. This can be done with a laptop, tablet PC, or mobile device (if they have the Assessments mobile app).
Assessment Manager	Initiate and manage sustainability assessment projects. Set up the application on handheld devices or set up the Assessments mobile app. Download collected data from the handheld devices to the Archibus database Analyze assessment data and the Environmental Sustainability Scoreboard. Estimate costs for corrective actions. Recommend action steps to address deficiencies. Generate work requests to resolve deficiencies.
Business Process Owners	Define assessment projects. Develop essential data about the facility. Develop Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) classifications. Develop typical problem resolutions from which field assessors can select when documenting conditions.
Building Owner	Review summary reports.