PLUS 317 (1st ed. pub. 2000)

Contributors
Background
1 Objectives
   1.1 General
   1.2 Assessment Objectives
   1.3 Overview Assessments
   1.4 Assessment Program
   1.5 Methodology
   1.6 Assessment Team
   1.7 Project Description Summary
2 Building System Assessments
   2.1 Site
   2.2 Interior Separations
   2.3 Building Envelope
   2.4 Structure
   2.5 Transportation Systems
   2.6 Building Plumbing
   2.7 HVAC
   2.8 Electrical, Lighting, and Communication Systems
3 Facility Management Assessments
   3.1 Scope and Procedures
   3.2 Project Statistics
   3.3 Facilities Management Organization
   3.4 Facilities Management
   3.5 Facilities Management Budget Account
   3.6 Routine Procedures (Staff)
   3.7 Outside Contracts
   3.8 Services and Emergency Contractors
   3.9 Studies, Tests, and Reports
   3.10 Information Management
   3.11 Education and Training Programs
   3.12 Interdepartmental Relationships
   3.13 Support for Projection Requirements from
        Interdependent Facility Management and Building
        Systems
Appendices
A - Case Study Report - Assessments of Building Systems
    in a Regional Hospital
B - References and Related Standards

Gives a uniform approach and an integrated format for the preparation of project-specific status reports on health care projects. The main objectives of the assessment guidelines include assessing the performance of the building's technical systems, identifying possible improvements in performance and highlighting priority concerns that need more detailed information and in-depth investigations.

Preface 1.1 General The assessment guidelines set out in Clauses 2 and 3 are intended to (a) provide professional assessment teams with a uniform approach and an integrated format to prepare project-specific status reports on health care projects; (b) expand the scope of a hospital\'s accreditation to evaluate the effects of the condition and the performance of the buildings\' technical systems, and of the facility management, on a health care project\'s functional programs; and (c) initiate feedback on present or emerging concerns and solutions that are common to health care projects, and to contribute to an easily accessible, universal data bank.