Building condition assessment metrics: Best practices

This paper briefly describes the various building condition assessment metrics, including their strengths and weaknesses and how they support building infrastructure asset management. The approaches fall into two categories: monetary-derived and engineering-derived. Monetary approaches include backlog and the Facility Condition Index (ECI), both of which are economic or financial health metrics. The engineering-derived approach is the Building Condition Index (BCI) series, which is a performance health metric. Addressed in this paper is why both the FCI and BCI condition assessment metrics constitute a building asset management “best practice” when used together and computed from a distress-based inspection process.