Great learning happens in spaces designed to support it.
A facility condition assessment tells you whether your buildings are sound. Suitability tells you whether they're truly serving their purpose. We help educational institutions at every level understand how well their spaces support the people and programs inside them, and where the greatest opportunities for improvement lie.
Beyond condition. Toward possibility.
A facility condition assessment (FCA) gives you a reliable picture of physical health. Suitability assessment goes a step further; asking whether your spaces are genuinely set up to support your educational mission — how well they serve learning, promote wellbeing, advance equity and adapt to where your institution is headed.
We conduct suitability assessments using the FOScore® KPI module, configured to your institution's specific goals, standards or state requirements.
Evaluations are organized across six core areas: educational program adequacy, learning environment quality, safety and security, student and staff wellness, accessibility and equity and operational adaptability.
Categories, measures and weightings are customized to reflect your priorities, and outputs produce clear, comparable scores across every building or campus in your portfolio.
The suitability assessment works alongside a traditional FCA or as a standalone study, and the deliverables are built to support master planning, bond preparation, accreditation documentation and equity reporting.
The questions condition data alone can't answer.
Educational institutions invest significant resources in understanding their facilities. Suitability assessment builds on that investment by adding the context that turns good data into great decisions.
Understanding how well buildings support modern pedagogy, accessibility needs and equitable access to programs, beyond what a structural assessment can tell you.
Building a consistent, objective framework for demonstrating equity across a portfolio to boards, communities and oversight bodies.
Strengthening master plans and bond programs with data that connects facility investment directly to student outcomes and community values.
Developing capital prioritization processes that account for programmatic needs, demographic shifts and institutional mission alongside physical condition.
Producing the documented educational adequacy metrics that accreditation and state reporting frameworks increasingly require.
Planning confidently for the future by understanding how well your current facilities are already aligned with where you want to go.
Facility management and capital planning made simple.
Our FOScore® platform brings clarity and confidence in the decisions that shape your built environment. Simplify complex data into actionable insights, providing the information and analysis you need to understand your facilities, prioritize what’s needed most and plan with precision.
- Cost estimating
- Project building
- Capital planning
- Asset inventory & tagging
- Asset & cost updates
- On demand & custom reporting
- Secure web infrastructure
- Mobile, tablet & desktop friendly
- Infinite file storage
- Unlimited users
What suitability data makes possible.
Our approach combines on-site expertise with data-informed analysis to help organizations reduce uncertainty, protect investments and plan with confidence.
When condition and suitability data work together, capital decisions reflect the full picture, connecting what needs repair to what what best serves students and faculty.
Consistent, data-informed suitability scores across your portfolio give institutions an objective basis for equity reporting, stakeholder engagement and board-level investment conversations.
Suitability findings give your capital program a more compelling narrative, one that connects facility investment directly to student outcomes and community values.
When your planning data reflects adequacy, adaptability and equity alongside condition, the resulting master plan is far more aligned with where your institution genuinely wants to go.
Suitability assessments produce organized, documented findings that support accreditation visits, state adequacy requirements and public accountability reporting with confidence.
For higher education institutions, suitability data can inform faculty recruitment, research investment and program development, turning a facilities exercise into a strategic asset.
Specialized expertise across the industries we support.
Every industry faces unique operational pressures, facility challenges and long-term planning priorities.
Civic
Public buildings are a public trust. We help you honor that.
Higher Education
Great campuses don't maintain themselves. We help you stay ahead.
Commercial
The best work happens in buildings that work.
PK – 12 Education
Every student deserves a safe, well-kept place to learn.
Healthcare
Your facilities carry a mission. We help you protect it.
Real institutions.
Real outcomes.
We've conducted academic suitability assessments for some of the largest and most complex educational portfolios in the country.
PreK-12 Education
K12 districts must ensure students' health and close educational gaps. They should assess the physical environment and make long-term plans for a brighter future that serves all students.
What could your facilities make possible?
Whether you're a district preparing for a bond measure, a university shaping your next master plan or an institution building a stronger equity story, we can help you get there with data you can trust and a plan you can stand behind. Let's start with a conversation.
Have questions? We’re here to help.
A facility condition assessment tells you about the physical health of your buildings: what systems are aging, what's in need of repair and what it will cost to remedy. A suitability assessment asks a complementary question: Are these spaces actively supporting your educational mission? It looks at how well your facilities serve your programs, your community's values and your students' needs. The two assessments work together beautifully, and we often conduct them in tandem, but suitability data adds a planning dimension that condition data alone can't provide.
Absolutely, and that flexibility is one of its greatest strengths. The FOScore® KPI module is designed to be configured around your specific goals, existing rubrics, state requirements or institutional standards. We can build a custom framework from scratch, adapt an existing one or apply established industry benchmarks. The categories, measures and weighting are all adjustable, so the output reflects what genuinely matters to your organization.
It gives your capital program a much more compelling story. Condition data tells stakeholders that buildings need investment. Suitability data shows them why it matters for students, for equity and for the community's vision of what education should look like. When those two things are connected, the case for a bond measure becomes much easier to make and much easier for the community to rally behind. We've helped districts build that case successfully at significant scale.
It depends on the size of your portfolio and the depth of evaluation you're looking for. For a single campus we can move quickly. For a large district or multi-campus university system, we scope the work to match your timeline and budget, and we're experienced at scaling assessment depth intelligently across large portfolios. The best starting point is a conversation about what you're trying to accomplish and we'll work backwards from there together.
Yes, and this is one of the areas where they tend to deliver the most value. Our assessments produce clear, documented findings across accessibility, program equity, wellness and other dimensions that accreditors and oversight bodies care about. That documentation reflects a proactive, data-informed commitment to continuous improvement, which is exactly what those conversations call for. For districts with state adequacy requirements or equity mandates, the tool can be configured specifically to produce the metrics those frameworks require.