Facility Condition insights
Bring your Facilities into focus
Discover your Facility’s FCI Index: The cost of capital investment vs. the cost of full facility replacement
For Companies or Individuals considering Renovation, Restoration, Adaptive Reuse, or Capital Planning
hOW CAN FCI ADVISERS HELP YOU BRING YOUR FACILITY’S CONDITION AND PERFORMANCE INTO FOCUS?
Our Mission: We are stewards of the built environment. We are here to provide consulting services that help clients navigate the journey of building design, construction, and management through effective asset management.
Gain control over your asset management data
FCI can benchmark your building’s energy performance
FCI can conduct condition assessments for your building enclosure and prescribe an action and budget plan
FCI can help you get started on commissioning an RFP for a whole building, Facility Condition Assessment, FCA study. Let us help you optimize your study by aligning your goals by achieving reliable data for effective budgeting
FCI can help you find CAPEX, CMMS, and BMS systems that can digitize your buildings assets and help manage your buildings’ operations
FCI can help you with asset management, aligning your organizational priorities to set achievable priorities
Let us help you bring your facility into focus
Legislative and ASTm Update:
In 2024, I initiated an ASTM committee to set an international standard for conducting FCA - Facility Condition Assessment studies. This new standard is due to hit the streets later in 2025. The committee is preparing to vote on the 1st draft in September, 2025. Look for more information.
Maryland’s BEP (Building Energy Performance) legislation for 2025 requires 13,000 buildings in MD to benchmark their energy-use and carbon footprint by September 1 this year.
If you need assistance in knowing if your building is required to comply (most buildings over 35,000 square feet in size with some exceptions), please contact FCI Advisers for assistance. In 2026, and every 5 years thereafter, benchmarking reports are required to be certified by a professional.
FCI Advisers can assist in certification with our MD architecture license.
Are you struggling to manage the risk associated properties, buildings, facilities, portfolios, or campuses?
FCI Advisers are here to help you navigate the complexities of understanding design, construction, and management of your facilities.
About our services
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Clients:
Owners
Facility Managers
Architects
Engineers
Contractors
Asset Managers
Lenders
FCI Advisers offers decades of experience with buildings of all types, sectors, ages, and condition. We have worked in 49 states and 6 countries to identify and explain the risks, budgets, condition, and priorities that lead to proactive facility management and cost effective decision making.
Facility Capital Planning for the 21st Century
Since 2000, asset management and building sciences have burst onto the international scene, challenging all aspects of the way that we build, manage, and engage with our facilities.
FCI Advisors can help you navigate the construction and facility management landscape.
Let’s discuss your facility together - use the button below to schedule a FREE 30 minute consultation today.
What are your challenges?
Addressing Deferred Maintenance Backlog?
Understanding Modern Building Science and Codes?
Setting Priorities for Capital Planning?
Complying with New Energy Performance Legislation?
Improving Sustainability, Resilience, Energy Utilization Intensity
Managing Vapor, Water, or Air Migration in the Building Enclosure?
Remodeling, Renovation, Adaptive Reuse, or Disposition?
Complying with ADA or Fair Housing?
Buying, Selling, or Refinancing Real Estate?
Conducting Reserves or Structural Wellness Studies for Condominiums
We can help
FCI Advisers can help you navigate the complex construction and facility management landscape that now includes:
Facility Condition Assessment Optimization - We can optimize your data collection for asset management and capital planning
Property Condition Assessments - We can perform a PCA, property condition assessment, for due-diligence lending and pre-purchase.
Building System Condition Assessments - We can conduct focused studies on individual systems such as building envelope, roofing, etc.
Partner Referrals - We can connect you with industry’s leading consultants for testing, forensics, and commissioning for building envelope, energy, ADA, elevator, fire safety, environmental, or other building investigations.
CMMS System Referrals - We can connect you with industry software companies to assist with centralizing your facility asset data to enhance build budgets and manage assets and systems.
Benchmarking - We can help you build reports for EUI, Energy Utilization Intensity and carbon footprint to meet legislative requirements
Expert Testimony - We can assist with resolving building condition disputes
Contact us
Ready to collaborate? Please provide your details, and we will reach out to you promptly. We look forward to connecting with you!
Kyle Christiansen, RA; President
kchristiansen@fciadvisers.com
240-385-6737
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Leading the way to Facility Condition Assessments - How to Manage Priorities and Deferred Capital Renewal Backlog.
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Here is a summary of articles from my Newsletter from 2022 – 2024. I invite you to subscribe and to take advantage of information and insights in these articles.
2022 Articles Included:
Increasing Pressures on K-12 Schools to Manage Backlog Maintenance and New Cultural Priorities (Jan. 4)
States Require FCA Reports for School Facilities (Jan. 16)
Question of the Week: How Many Schools are Doing Facility Condition Reporting? (Jan. 29)
Where does School Facility Funding Come From? (Feb. 12)
Question of the Week, What is Asset Management? (Feb. 27)
Good News: US Cities and States Address School Facility Deferred Maintenance in 2022 ( Mar. 27)
Maryland Leads the Way in 2022 for K-12 School Facility Funding
(April 11)
Are you Managing Your Facilities or are Your Facilities Managing You? (May 21)
Question of the Week: What are the Risks for 40-60 Year-Old Facilities? (June 13)
Who is Qualified to Conduct a Facility Condition Assessment? (July 7)
What are States and Federal Government Doing to Address the Condition of K-12 School Facilities in 2022 and 2023? (July 22)
Why are There Such Large Variations in FCA Proposal Fees? (Aug. 15)
Understanding Your Client’s Risk Management Goals (Sept. 11)
2023 Articles
College Campus Facility Management: Where do We Go from Here 2023? (Jan. 23)
Facility Managers, Are You Ready for the Coming Renovation Cycle? (Mar. 12)
Recent Parking Garage Collapses: A Wake-Up Call for Facility Managers (April 8)
Preparing for the Coming Renovation Cycle (Oct, 26)
2024 Articles
How to Navigate the FCA Industry (Feb. 21)
Do We Need a FCA Standard? (March 9)
Navigating the FCA Industry: Getting the Data Right (April 2)
E-Book
Chapter 1 – Are you Ready for the Coming Renovation Cycle? (April 21, 2024)
Chapter 2 – Hitting the Sweet Spot for School Building; Renovation, Restoration, Repurposing, or Adaptive Reuse (April 29, 2024)
Chapter 3 – The Impact of Structure on the Renovation Cycle (May 27, 2024)
Chapter 4 – The Impact of Infrastructure on the Renovation Cycle (July 2, 2024)
Chapter 5 – The Impact of Building Envelopes on the Renovation Cycle (July 22, 2024)
Chapter 6 – How Energy Codes & Legislation Impact the 50-Year Renovation Cycle (Aug. 16, 2024)
Chapter 7 – The Impact of Building Codes & ADA on the Renovation Cycle (Aug. 21, 2024)
Chapter 8 – The Impact of Space Planning on the Renovation Cycle (Aug. 28, 2024)
Chapter 9 – The Impact of Replacement Cycles on Renovation (Sept. 16, 2024)
Chapter 10 – Good News: Successful Case Studies of Renovation (Sept. 30, 2024)
FCAs: How Can We Improve and Standardize the Industry (Oct 2024)
States are Making Important Progress in Managing Their Schools (Dec. 1, 2024)
Renovate, Repurpose, or Dispose (Dec. 20 2024)
2025 Articles
Do We Need A FCA Standard (Jan.)
Aging Infrastructure - Is it a Fire Hazard? (Feb.)
Building Enclosure Consulting for the 21st Century (March)
What Is BPS, Building Performance Standards and Why does it Matter (April)
Are you Planning a Facility Condition Assessment (May)
Question of the Week. Do we Need Incentives (June)
Building Energy Performance Standards (July )
IFMA Chesapeake Presents BPS - How to Get Started by Kyle Christiansen (August)