Budgeting for Facilities Maintenance and Repair Activities Report Number 131 (1996) / Chapter Skim
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Where neglect of maintenance has caused a backlog of needed repairs to accumulate, spending must exceed this minimum level until the backlog has been el~m~nated."i Because maintenance and repair budgets typically include numerous small projects for which it is uneconomical to develop detailed justification, federal agencies like most facility owners- often are in the situation The complete summary of the committee's findings and recommendations is reproduced in Appendix A
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Consequently, at the time the report was published it was widely believed that the guideline would be widely adopted and that it would be of great value to federal facilities managers in their budget discussions within their own organizations and with congressional committees. Indeed, some agency officials thought the use of the guideline would usher in a new era of stable, adequate funding for facilities maintenance and repair in the federal government.
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HOW THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED The committee began its study by assembling lists of terms used by various federal agencies in connection with the operation, maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation of their facilities. From those lists the committee identified key terms relating to the Building Research Board's committee guidelines that were common to many agencies.
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ADEQUATE [FACILITy- An adequate facility is fully capable of supporting its current use without modifications or repairs that require approval and funding from a higher authority. ALTERATION" An alteration is the work required to adjust interior arrangements or other physical characteristics of an existing real property facility so that it may be more effectively adapted to or utilized for its designated purposes.
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Excluded is all enclosed space with an average ceiling height of less than seven feet. AREA, NET FLOOR Includes the total gross area excluding basements not suited as office space, elevator shafts and machinery space, exterior walls and interior partitions, mechanical equipment and water supply equipment space, permanent corridors and hallways, stairs and stair towers, and toilet and cleaning gear space.
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EQUIPMENT, IN PLACE- Includes all equipment other than installed equipment, when acquired and used in a facility or a test apparatus and can be served and removed after erection or installation without substantial loss of value or damage thereto or to the premises where installed. Noncollateral equipment imparts to the facility or test apparatus its particular character at the time (e.g., furniture in an office building, equipment in a laboratory, equipment in a test stand, machine tools in a shop facility, computers in a computer facility)
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The term does not include operating materials, supplies, special tooling, special test equipment, noncapitalized equipment. The term facility is used in connection with land, buildings (facilities having the basic function to enclose usable space)
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RENOVATION The action performed in upgrading an existing substandard facility to a functionally adequate, usable facility. REPAIR-Repair is the restoration of a facility or component thereof to such condition that it may be effectively utilized for its designated purposes by overhaul, reprocessing, or replacement of constituent parts or materials that have deteriorated by action of the elements or usage and have not been corrected through maintenance.
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SUBSTANDARD [CONDITION] Substandard describes a facility with deficiencies that require approval and funding beyond the authority of the local managers or commander for modifications or repairs to make the facility adequate for its function.
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