PlanningDirect

Online Capital Plan and Funding Management

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The all-new PlanningDirect is a powerful, online capital plan management tool that simplifies planning for your educational institution’s future capital needs.

PlanningDirect:

  • uses a proven renew/replace methodology to help quickly build your capital plan and view upcoming threats to safeguard the health of your facilities.
  • helps justify funding requests by projecting capital needs and tracking the cost of deferred maintenance.
  • costs 20x less than a full facility condition assessment.
  • is quick and easy; get facility condition assessment data for one building in just 10 minutes.

"With PlanningDirect, our principals have access to real-time information and can access their building’s capital planning lists anytime, anywhere. They have become more effective managers, and our district can better prioritize and budget our capital projects."

Terry Taylor
Gresham-Barlow School District No. 10Jt
Gresham, Oregon
12,177 students

Value & Benefits

Value to Your Administration

  • Quickly and easily create a facility capital plan
  • Significantly less expensive than utilizing outside facility assessment services
  • Reduces risk by ensuring that needed corrections are properly prioritized
  • Provides ability to compare estimated costs against actual expenditures with easy to generate graphs

Value to the Facility team:

  • Easily create a capital plan using basic building data
  • Creates dynamic capital plan based on proven renew/replace methodology
  • Helps justify funding and budget requests by tracking the cost of facility needs
  • Easily generates customizable reports for analyzing capital budgets and expenditures
  • Automatically updates your live capital plan with corrective costs by integrating with your work order process (requires MaintenanceDirect)
  • Provides ability to quickly create reports to summarize deficiency details, facility condition, cost and more

Benefits

  • Provides access to your capital plan data anytime, anywhere from any computer via the web
  • Automatically updates your live capital plan with corrective costs by integrating with your work order process (requires MaintenanceDirect)
  • Significantly less expensive than utilizing outside facility assessment services
Features

Features & Functions

  • Build a capital plan in minutes with basic building data
  • Uses a proven renew/replace methodology utilizing 14 standard building systems
  • Allows tracking of infrastructure, modernization and new construction needs
  • Tracks all facility capital needs in a dynamic solution that changes with your buildings
  • Manages capital projects and expenditures related to facility capital needs
  • Allows current and future funds to be appropriated to facility plans
  • Allows creation of multiple options for plan line items for easily adjusting plans based on available monies
  • Enables evaluation of the cost consequences of not completing a project
  • Associates needed corrections with equipment to enable comparison of maintenance costs versus replacement costs
  • Enables preparation and tracking of details for grants, bonds and funds
  • Provides year by year tracking of your capital plan
  • Allows tracking of detailed project information and history
  • Tracks the percentage of work completed and monies spent for each project
  • Seamlessly integrates with MaintenanceDirect, to create a total facility maintenance solution meeting the needs of corrective, preventive and future work
Success

Client Success

"With PlanningDirect, our principals have access to real-time information and can access their building’s capital planning lists anytime, anywhere. They have become more effective managers, and our district can better prioritize and budget our capital projects."
Gresham-Barlow School District No. 10Jt
Gresham, Oregon
12,177 students

"SchoolDude is providing us the maintenance management tools [MaintenanceDirect and PlanningDirect] that best satisfy our needs, and our IT folks appreciate the web-based advantages."
Westminster College
Missouri
956 students

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