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Consultants present districtwide facility conditions assessment and AssetCalc portal; $1.78 billion 20-year reserve estimate
Summary
Consultants told the committee they surveyed 79 district buildings, logged more than 10,600 observations and produced a 20-year forecast of reserve costs totaling about $1.784 billion; the data are published in a live AssetCalc portal for district planning.
Steve Raskin of Cortigan Clark presented the district’s facility conditions assessment to the St. Louis Public Schools Real Estate Committee, describing a data-driven inventory of 79 buildings and an online AssetCalc portal the district can use for near-term and 20-year planning.
Raskin said assessors reviewed more than 6,500,000 square feet and recorded more than 10,600 unique observations. Using industry measures such as expected useful life (EUL), remaining useful life (RUL) and the Facility Condition Index (FCI), the consultants calculated a portfolio replacement and reserve forecast that includes escalation and a 20-year planning horizon.
Raskin said the consultants’ total cost forecast for immediate, short-, near- and long-term repairs and replacements over the 20-year period is $1,784,000,000. He told the committee the number includes a 7% annual escalation factor for future years and that the AssetCalc portal lets district staff run reports by building, system, plan type and time horizon.
The presentation explained key terms: EUL is the industry standard life span for a building assembly, effective age is how long an assembly has already been in service, and RUL is the remaining useful life. Raskin said the FCI is the ratio of current needs to current replacement value and that higher FCIs indicate larger upcoming reserve costs and potential replacement conversations.
Raskin demonstrated the AssetCalc portal’s dashboards, immediate-needs reports and the ability to extract lists of assemblies (for example, all doors or all roofing systems) with quantities, unit costs, condition ratings and scheduled replacement years. He said the district owns a license for the portal and can customize queries by region, building or system.
Committee members asked about structural soundness of century-old brick buildings, accessibility and how the assessment links to prior capital programs (Prop S and summer projects). Raskin said older brickwork can be robust but older facilities may not meet modern code requirements for seismic, life-safety, tornado sheltering or indoor-air-quality systems; structural and critical-infrastructure issues identified in crawl spaces and elsewhere were highlighted for immediate attention.
Next steps: district operations and maintenance staff will use AssetCalc to prioritize immediate repairs, develop reserve strategies and inform the master planning process.
