The Whole Cost of Deferred Maintenance: How Proactive Building Enclosure Assessments Help with Budgetary Planning and Building Resiliency

Healthcare facilities depend on reliable roofs, façades, windows, and waterproofing systems to protect patient care, operations, and capital investments. Yet enclosure issues are often addressed only after leaks, failures, or visible damage occur—when costs, disruptions, and risks are already escalating. This session will help attendees understand how proactive building enclosure assessments can turn deferred maintenance from an uncertain liability into a more predictable, prioritized, and budgetable capital planning strategy. Participants will learn how to identify common enclosure risks, evaluate when repair or replacement is appropriate, and use assessment findings to support resiliency planning, reduce recurrence of failures, and make more informed facility investment decisions.

• Recognize common building enclosure vulnerabilities in healthcare facilities and understand how they affect operations, patient care environments, and long-term asset performance.
• Understand how proactive enclosure assessments can help prioritize maintenance needs, distinguish between repair and replacement strategies, and reduce costly reactive work.
• Learn how to translate assessment findings into practical budget forecasts that support capital planning and risk-informed decision-making.
• Identify material selection and maintenance strategies that can improve building resiliency and reduce the recurrence of future enclosure failures.

1.0 CEU credit