Building Condition Assessment – Royalmount/Decelles

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Building Condition Assessment – Royalmount/Decelles

1. PURPOSE OF DOCUMENT

The purpose of this document is to provide a description of the services the Contractor must supply throughout the duration of this project and to outline the content and format of the required deliverables. Additionally, the document specifies key team member’s roles and responsibilities.

1. PROJECT SPECIFIC INFORMATION

1. PROJECT TITLE AND PROJECT NUMBER

Project Title: National Research Council Canada Regional Building Condition Assessment (BCA) Program

6100 avenue Royalmount, Montréal, QC H4P 2R2

1. PROJECT GENERAL INFORMATION

The National Research Council Canada (NRC) is in need of building condition assessments to evaluate the current condition of three of its real property assets. The properties in need of assessment are:

1. Buildings MTLR-1, MTRL-2, 6100 avenue Royalmount, Montréal, QC H4P 2R2; 
2. Building MTLD-1, 5145 Decelles Avenue, Montréal, QC H3S 2S4;

These assessments are part of Real Property Planning and Management’s (RPPM) on-going efforts to determine the most appropriate management strategy for the retention, maintenance and/or rehabilitation/renewal of the site, buildings and building elements in order to satisfy the Government of Canada’s (GoC) current and future requirements as they relate to their Science Assets.

Given the significant investment required to recapitalize these assets, the importance of a repeatable, rigorous, analysis of the inventory, including condition assessment, financial, utilization and adequacy, is critical to the ongoing life-cycle management of these assets. Building Condition Assessments provide foundational, detailed, technical information on which these analyses are based.

The Building Condition Assessment process is used to assess the physical condition of real property assets. The intent is to generate building condition information that enables capital planning for rehabilitation, renovation and replacement based on objectively applied criteria of condition.

For each building, the Building Condition Assessment must include the following information:

• the general characteristics of a site, building and building elements;
• history of additions, renovations or major system improvements;
• condition rating of building elements such as structure, building envelope, electrical, and mechanical systems;
• comments on maintenance requirements;
• comments on essential corrective/remedial requirements;
• information on the life-cycle capital cost of refurbishment or replacement of building elements;

• information on the current replacement value (CRV) or replacement cost new (RCN) of each building, including major group elements (ASTM Uniformat II Level 1), group elements (ASTM Uniformat II Level 2), individual elements (ASTM Uniformat II Level 3), and sub-elements (ASTM Uniformat II Level 4). See Appendix A; and
• capital cost plans presented on a yearly basis for work over the next 25 year life-cycle of the buildings and elements.

1. PROJECT OBJECTIVES

The objective of a Building Condition Assessment is to investigate various building and site improvement factors including:

• Element condition and assessment of remaining service life (ASTM Uniformat II Levels 1 through 4). See Appendix A;
• Building equipment obsolescence;
• Design problems and deficiencies that adversely affect operation and maintenance activities;
• Compliance with the current applicable standards & codes (i.e. latest edition/revision) and propose remedial work;
• Effective age and remaining service life of building elements;
• Facility Condition Index for the building; and
• Recommendations on the underground assets (i.e. linear assets).

The concept of full life-cycle costing for a facility serves as the foundation for the development of a long-term capital plan. The 25-year capital plan should indicate the optimal timing / grouping of recommended “events” into projects in order to minimize overall cost and building occupant disruption.

Estimated quantity of commodity: 3 Buildings for Assessment

Duration of contract: (2023-12-20) to (2023-06-30)

Time frame of delivery: (2023-12-20) to (2023-06-30)