What the module does
The Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) module gives your facilities team a live, defensible answer to one question: what condition is my portfolio in, and where should the next capital dollar go?
It continuously computes a Facility Condition Index (FCI) — the industry-standard ratio used by NACUBO and APPA — from data your team already maintains in FlowPath: equipment records, work orders, PM schedules, inspections, and (optionally) deferred-maintenance items.
Unlike a traditional point-in-time FCA study, the score is a live roll-up: it recalculates from your current data every time the dashboard loads, and a snapshot is saved automatically each day so you can see the trend over time.
Key terms to know
These terms appear throughout the module and the rest of these articles.
FCA (assessment): a named, scoped container — for example "Current Portfolio" — that defines which buildings and equipment are measured and how the score is calculated. You can have several.
FCI (Facility Condition Index): cost signals divided by Current Replacement Value, shown as a percentage. Lower is better.
CRV (Current Replacement Value): the sum of the Estimated Replacement Cost on each in-scope equipment asset. Equipment with no replacement cost is excluded.
Deferred Maintenance (DM) item: an explicit record of known, unfixed work with an estimated cost, pinned to an asset, location, or building.
EUL (Expected End of Useful Life): a date on each asset. Once an asset passes its EUL, its full replacement value counts as a deferred capital need in the numerator.
Snapshot: a saved point on the trend chart — score, rating, numerator, CRV, and around 30 operational signals as of one date. Created daily, and historically by Backfill history.
Backfill: reconstruction of historical snapshots (see the trend chart article for the caveats).
Rating: the score band — Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, or Critical. Thresholds are configurable (defaults: below 5% Excellent, below 10% Good, below 20% Fair, below 30% Poor, 30% or above Critical).
If you're setting up the module for the first time, start with the Getting Started article — the quality of your equipment records determines whether your FCI is meaningful from day one.