Capital Improvement Plan Development

VIE Consultants assists owners of facilities in capital improvement planning by providing services to insure that short and long term capital plans address life safety issues, which may need to be addressed due to legislative requirements, or corporate or government life safety policies.

VIE adds value to this planning process by finding innovative ways to incorporate life safety improvements into other planned capital improvements. In this manner, legislative requirements can addressed far more efficiently than if they are treated as independent issues.

The types of life safety issues which can be very effectively treated in this manner include: Seismic safety, other natural hazard planning (fire, flood, wind), as well as security planning for terrorism loss control. VIE can be of particularly valuable assistance to owners in interpreting the following issues:

• "Required" retrofit verses options to achieve a specified life safety level
• Options available for phasing retrofit work to coincide with other planned capital improvements
• Methods for financing retrofit work
• Methods for optimizing design using innovative concepts and materials
• Options for change of use which do not require retrofit.