VFA’s facility self-assessment solution, VFA.auditor, enables organizations to quickly and cost-effectively capture key data about their facility portfolios using a web-based survey platform.

VFA.auditor utilizes flexible data collection methods such as paper-based surveys and/or mobile/offline surveys. Mobile surveys provide added flexibility and versatility and are a natural extension of the Web-survey solution that streamlines and speeds up the overall management of the data capture process.

The VFA.auditor guided facility self-assessment solution enables facility managers to capture the facility condition data of more of the assets in the real estate portfolio, whether facilities are concentrated on a single campus or geographically dispersed. Self-assessment data provides quick, affordable budgetary estimates and enables organizations to focus a “full condition assessment” on mission-critical buildings and other “hot spot” assets which may have significant issues.

VFA.auditor guides facility managers and maintenance personnel through detailed survey questions that capture specific information about a building and its major systems. The solution was created using the expertise of professional VFA facility assessors to ensure that the right data is captured across a full spectrum of building types. The application utilizes a VFA Assessment Template Library with over 600 building system models to dynamically populate the survey content based on building type or specific data collection requirements.

VFA.auditor enables organizations to:

  • Cost-effectively audit a large facility or geographically dispersed portfolio
  • Identify deficiency “hot spots” across the portfolio
  • Easily capture required condition data to validate and justify budget requests
  • Develop benchmarks for building and system condition across facilities
  • Complement and update existing assessment data
  • Deploy a solution that delivers repeatable value for more frequent facility condition audits

Additionally, VFA.auditor with mobile/offline survey support:

  • Reduces paper dependency and improves process efficiency
  • Delivers real-time data capture that accelerates collection speed
  • Eliminates redundant data entry
  • Improves accuracy by eradicating transcription errors