Committing to the Cost of Ownership

National Research Council. (1990). Committing to the Cost of Ownership: Maintenance and Repair of Public Buildings. National Academy Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1990

DOI

10.17226/9807

ISBN

9780309576086

DOI registrant

National Academies Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.17226/9807

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Mechanisms

• Budget Balance Guardrail
  • Its strength is keeping time horizons and quiet constituencies alive in a process that structurally rewards the urgent and the visible; it is the standard defense against deferred maintenance, the slow accumulation of un-funded upkeep that stays invisible until a pipe or a bridge fails.
• Maintenance Funded by Use
  • It converts "we'll get to it" into a standing, sized, tracked commitment — the antidote to accumulating deferred maintenance.

    This sourceRecommends treating building maintenance as a continuing ownership cost, with recurring funding tied to replacement value and backlog tracking to prevent deferred deficiencies from accumulating.

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