Every student deserves a safe, well-kept place to learn.
School districts carry an enormous responsibility. The buildings in your care are where children spend most of their day, and the condition of those buildings sends a message about how much the community values education. FOS works alongside PreK-12 facility and operations teams to bring order to complex portfolios, clarity to capital planning and a practical path to keeping every school safe, accessible and ready to support learning.
What we bring to PK-12 facility teams.
Everything starts with knowing what you have. Our facility condition assessments give your district a thorough, school-by-school account of building conditions, covering structural systems, mechanical and electrical infrastructure, roofing, interiors and site elements. It’s the honest, ground-level picture that makes every planning conversation more productive.
When a district is considering acquiring a building or taking on a donated property, our due diligence assessments help you understand the full scope of what you are inheriting before you sign anything.
With condition data in hand, we help you build the planning tools your district needs to move forward with confidence.
Asset tagging and inventory work creates a complete, organized record of your building systems across every school in the portfolio, making maintenance scheduling and renewal planning far more manageable for your team. That foundation feeds into a prioritized, multi-year capital improvement plan, one designed to hold up to scrutiny from school boards, parent communities and state oversight agencies.
Our cost estimating services ensure every project in your plan is backed by accurate, locally calibrated numbers that your business office can present without hesitation.
We also help districts understand where their buildings stand on accessibility and code compliance.
Our ADA and code assessments identify deficiencies across your schools and provide a practical, sequenced remediation path to work from.
For districts looking to reduce operating costs or respond to community expectations around environmental responsibility, our energy audits identify the highest-impact efficiency opportunities across your portfolio and help you build a realistic implementation plan.
What PK-12 facility teams are up against.
School districts manage some of the most complex facility portfolios in the public sector, often with lean teams and budgets that were stretched before deferred maintenance entered the picture.
Aging school buildings with significant deferred maintenance backlogs, competing for bond dollars and general fund resources against instructional and staffing priorities.
Pressure from the community and board to demonstrate that facility investments are safe, equitable and fiscally responsible across every school in the district.
Accessibility gaps in older buildings create compliance exposure and prevent full participation for students, staff and families with disabilities.
Energy costs consume a disproportionate share of operating budgets, leaving less for the classroom.
Inconsistent facility data across a portfolio of schools, making it difficult to prioritize need objectively or communicate clearly to decision makers.
Small facilities teams responsible for day-to-day operations across dozens of buildings, with limited capacity for the kind of systematic assessment work that good planning requires.
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 well-managed school facilities make possible.
Our approach combines on-site expertise with data-driven analysis to help organizations reduce uncertainty, protect investments and plan with confidence.
Reliable condition data and honest cost estimates give school boards the foundation they need to approve facility investments with confidence and communicate them clearly to the community.
Consistent assessment data across your portfolio makes it easier to identify where needs are greatest and ensure that facility investment reflects the district's commitment to every student.
Identifying and addressing building deficiencies before they become emergencies protects students, staff and the community's trust in how the district cares for its schools.
A clear picture of where ADA and code gaps exist, paired with a practical remediation plan, helps your district close deficiencies systematically rather than reactively.
Energy audits create opportunities to reduce operating costs without reducing services, freeing up resources for instruction and student support.
When we handle the assessment and planning work, your facilities team can stay focused on keeping schools running rather than trying to build a data foundation on top of everything else.
Comprehensive facility management services to help you plan, prioritize and perform.
Our tools and services are designed to simplify complexity, reduce long-term costs and extend the life of your assets.
Facility Condition Assessments (FCA)
Clear insight into asset conditions, identifying and prioritizing long-term needs.
Capital Planning
Data-informed planning to prioritize investments, manage deferred maintenance and extend asset life cycles.
Asset Inventory & Tagging
Detailed asset identification and data collection to support maintenance planning and lifecycle management.
Cost Estimating
Reliable, real-world cost data to support accurate budgeting and defensible capital decisions.
ADA & Code Assessments
Identify compliance gaps and prioritize corrective actions across facilities.
Academic Suitability/Adequacy Assessments
Align facility conditions with educational programs, enrollment and learning outcomes.
Property Due Diligence
Objective facility assessments that support informed acquisition, disposition and investment decisions.
Energy Audits
ASHRAE Level I & II audits that identify efficiency opportunities, cost savings and performance improvements.
Work that delivers at any scale.
Organizations of every size trust FOS to understand their needs. See how schools, universities, health systems and state and local governments across North America have benefited from proactive, data-informed facilities management services.
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.
Your schools deserve facilities as strong as the community behind them.
Whether your district has a handful of schools or spans dozens of campuses, we are ready to help you build a plan that is honest, defensible and built to last. Let's start with a conversation.
Have questions? We’re here to help.
We plan our work around your academic calendar and coordinate closely with your facilities staff to minimize disruption. Assessors are trained to work around occupied classrooms and active common areas, and we follow all visitor and safety protocols required in school settings. Most assessments can be completed with very little impact on the day-to-day operation of the building.
Absolutely. A thorough facility condition assessment is one of the most valuable tools a district can have going into a bond campaign. It gives you credible, third-party data to support your project list, cost estimates that hold up to public scrutiny and a clear story about why the investment is needed. We have helped districts build the facility data foundation for successful bond measures at every scale.
Prioritization is one of the most important things a good capital plan does. We work with your team to build a framework that weighs building condition, safety, code compliance, enrollment and community equity, so decisions about sequencing are grounded in data and defensible to any audience. That framework also makes it easier to revisit and adjust priorities as conditions change over time.
Start with a clear inventory of what the gaps actually are. Our ADA and code assessments document deficiencies systematically across your buildings and help you develop a transition plan that is realistic given your budget and timeline. Having that documentation in place also puts your district in a much stronger position if accessibility compliance questions arise from regulators or the community.
Yes, and often more than districts expect. Even modest improvements in lighting, HVAC controls and building envelope performance can generate significant annual savings across a portfolio of school buildings. We scope our audits to identify opportunities that are practical to implement and model the projected savings clearly, so your business office and board can evaluate the return before committing to any investment.