Asset Preservation Program

Operational Maintenance includes the work of custodial, grounds, and maintenance professionals who respond to emergent and routine maintenance needs. Operational maintenance activities are those that routinely occur but cannot always be planned for. These activities include responding to calls for emergency repairs, patching holes, replacing ballasts, repairing fixtures, fixing locks, replacing broken windows, etc.

Custodial services include cleaning, sanitizing, trash removal, and non-cleaning services. Some of the common non-cleaning services are opening the school (which includes checking for vandalism), safety and maintenance concerns; inspecting playgrounds and fields; attending to miscellaneous teacher/site-manager requests; activity set-ups; repairing furniture and equipment; ordering and delivering supplies; and putting up the Flag and PE equipment.

Grounds workers are responsible for maintaining all site or campus property. Common grounds maintenance activities include but are not limited to mowing, trimming, weeding, snow removal, debris cleanup, and irrigation repairs.

In contrast to Operational Maintenance, Infrastructure Maintenance is in large part planned maintenance that is focused on the fundamental systems that make up a facility. It is based on the preventative and predictive building system maintenance required to maximize the useful life of building systems (Le. HVAC, Roof, Electrical etc.) Infrastructure maintenance also includes scheduled inspections and services, and system component repairs and replacements. Over the course of a building's life cycle annual cost of Infrastructure Maintenance varies widely depending on where individual systems are in their life cycle.

• Foundation / Structure - includes slab concrete floors, concrete stem and foundation walls, eMU foundation walls on footings. Columns. Pier footings. Concrete beams and other foundational support structures. This also includes soils or surfaces upon which structural members rest.
• Exterior Walls - includes all exterior wall systems from the foundation to the roofline. Exterior walls are made of wood, vinyl, aluminum, and composite lap siding; wood or composite panels; stucco or stucco-like materials (EIFS, DRIVIT systems); paints, sealants, and stains; fired brick and CMU's; flashings and caulkings; and several other material types.
• Roof - includes all roofing materials, the roof superstructure, and the water drainage system associated with the runoff from the foundation to the roofline. Exterior walls are made of wood, vinyl, aluminum, and composite lap siding, wood or composite panels, stucco or stucco-like materials, paints, sealants and stains, fired brick and CMU's, flashings and caulking, and several other material types.
• Windows / Doors - includes all types of exterior doors. Exterior doors are solid cores, normally clad with wood, vinyl, or steel. Windows are normally made of aluminum, steel, or vinyl with thermo, gas-charged glazing. There are places where metal roll-up doors are also used.
• Trim - This system includes trim around windows and doors, fascia, corners, where exterior materials change from one area to another, and other places where trim would be needed. The trim could be made of wood, aluminum, steel, vinyl or o,ther materials. It also could be painted or unpainted.

• Floors - includes all types of flooring systems, including concrete slabs, T&G car decking, and post and beam with subflooring. It also includes the finished surfaces such as VCT, sheet vinyl, carpet, wood, etc.
• Interior Walls - includes all interior walls, including painted GWB, brick or painted CMU, vinyl-covered wainscoting, and other interior wall surfaces.
• Ceilings - includes all interior ceilings including, open ceilings, painted GWB, acoustical tiles over GWB, and suspended acoustical ceilings.
• Fixed Equipment - Fixed equipment could include various non-structural items such as window coverings, kitchen equipment, cabinetry, kilns, bleachers, basketball backboards, operable walls, etc.

• Electrical - includes all types of electrical equipment and systems, such as light fixtures, panels, transformers, conduits, switch gear, and conduit and wiring.
• Plumbing - includes all types of plumbing systems such as piping and insulation, toilets, urinals, sinks, strainers, floor drains, trap primers, flush valves, circ pumps and faucets.
• Heating - includes all heating systems, such as gas and electric boilers and furnaces, heat pumps, fan coil units, unit ventilators, pneumatic controls and DOC, etc.
• Cooling - includes all types of cooling units, including chillers, cooling towers, heat pumps, fans, pneumatic controls, DOC, etc.
• Lighting -includes all types of lighting and lighting systems, including HPS, MH, fluorescent, incandescent, CFL, emergency, etc.

• Means of Exit - includes all exterior doors, hardware, corridors, exit lighting, etc.
• Fire Control Capacity - includes all means of fire resistance such as sprinkler systems, fire-rated doors and walls, insulation, fire extinguishers, etc.
• Fire Alarm System - includes all fire alarm systems and equipment such as annunciator panels, fire and smoke detectors, water flow, alarm panels, etc.
• Emergency Lighting - includes all emergency lighting and emergency power generation including, battery packs, generators, etc.
• Fire Resistance - includes all aspects of fire-rated construction components, including columns and beams, fire walls, doors, windows, ceilings, etc.

• ADA Provisions - includes any area where ADA compliance is required. Under Title III of the ADA, all "new construction" (construction, modification or alterations) after the effective date of the ADA (approximately July 1992) must be fully compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (IADMG")ill found in the Code of Federal Regulations at 28 C.F.R., Part 36, Appendix "A."