Deferred Maintenance Compounds Quietly

Campus portfolios accumulate a specific kind of debt. Buildings stay in service well past the point where a system should have been replaced, the backlog grows faster than the capital budget, and the facilities master plan is written on a horizon long enough that the condition data underneath it has gone stale.

The weakest chapter in most facilities master plans is existing conditions, because the data doesn’t exist in usable form. We arrive with it built — system-level condition, remaining life, and cost to correct per building, rolled into an FCI the board already understands.

That connects the twenty-year plan to a five-year capital schedule and to a per-building backlog. Which is what makes a master plan survive a budget cycle rather than sit on a shelf until the next one.