Case Study: City of Mississauga achieves defensible capital planning and prioritized asset management with Accruent

Creating accurate capital plans with detailed facility condition assessment data

The City of Mississauga, one of Canada’s largest and fastest-growing cities with a diverse portfolio of civic buildings, lacked consistent facility condition data and capital-planning capability. Although a CMMS was in place, long-range budgets were based on historical averages and unvalidated requests rather than asset age, condition or lifecycle, so the city sought a Facility Asset Management Program and tools to enable data-driven prioritization and forecasting.

Mississauga contracted VFA Canada to deliver VFA.facility, conduct phased condition assessments and establish best-practice processes; after a pilot the team assessed 228 buildings and more than 350 site assets and uploaded results to the cloud-based system. The work revealed a replacement value just under $1.3 billion and a Facility Condition Index of 0.12, and now enables the city to run funding scenarios, prioritize projects and produce defensible long-term capital plans while keeping the asset database current.

City of Mississauga

Jasbir Raina

Manager, Capital Planning & Asset Management