Maintenance and Repair: Options for Extending the Service Life of Capital Assets
Property owners, managers, and developers must constantly balance immediate repair needs to address safety and comfort with maintenance and rehabilitation costs to extend service life and improve performance. These competing demands become heightened when capital assets and other critical systems continue to age, requiring significant and costly repairs or rehabilitation. In this webinar, we will explore the decision-making process and associated risks and rewards when considering regularly scheduled maintenance projects against larger, less-frequent rehabilitation efforts. We will also highlight a series of repair and rehabilitation projects showing a range of critical short-term actions and longer-term comprehensive capital planning for individual buildings, parking structures, and larger building complexes.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending this seminar, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the value of properly assessing your asset’s condition.
- Realize multiple options exist for how, why, and when to maintain or repair your asset.
- Understand the relationship between cost, condition, and safety.
- Appreciate the importance of having a capital plan in place and using it to your advantage.
Participants will earn 1.0 AIA CES Learning Unit (LU/HSW) for attending the live webinar. Registration is free. Please note that space is limited – email events@sgh.com to join our waitlist if the session is closed when you register.
About the Speaker
Daniel Cook specializes in structural investigation, having executed performance and condition assessments for various types of structures, contemporary and historic. His diverse experience also includes repairing and rehabilitating existing structures, new structural design, construction engineering, and demolition planning. Daniel is passionate about contributing his knowledge to the industry and future engineers and stays active through various professional organizations and teaching opportunities. He is a current board member and a Past-President of the ASCE Construction Institute (CI) at the national level. He is also a Past-Chair of the Boston Chapter of CI, a regular guest lecturer at Lehigh University, and a former Adjunct Faculty member at Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Nathan Boutin has extensive experience in diverse applications of structural engineering, including designing new structures and investigating, repairing, rehabilitating, and analyzing existing structures. Many of his projects integrate building technology solutions with structural repairs and rehabilitation. He has led multidisciplinary project teams from initial investigation through design and construction of repairs for private and public clients. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University, where he teaches structural design courses to engineering and architecture students.
Sean Radley is a structural and geotechnical engineer with experience in a range of projects involving design, investigation, repair, and rehabilitation of buildings, parking garages, and structures of various types and materials. He is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and International Concrete Repair Institute. He also contributes to the American Concrete Institute Committee 364 – Rehabilitation.
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