The first round of building exterior visual assessments are due in 2018. If your building is one impacted by the initial phase, don’t put it off (the fines can reach into the thousands). Get the BiLD team behind you, and your buildings will thanks you...literally!
BEVA stands for building exterior visual assessment, which pretty much sums up what it is. The City of Calgary passed a bylaw in 2016 after public safety issues were bropught to light due to material falling from tall buildings. This bylaw mandated that all buildings over five stories must complete a BEVA every five years. As a result, the assessment takes a detailed look at the exterior building components.
Generally, if your building is five storeys or taller, you will be required to get a BEVA done every five years. The City of Calgary is taking a phased approach in terms of when a building's first BEVA is required, using January 1, 2016 as the benchmark year. If your building is 45 years or older, for example, its first BEVA is required to be completed in 2018. Additionally, if occupancy of your building was given in 2006-2008 inclusive, a BEVA will also be required in 2018.
Why not make the most of this new by-law and get your building's data into a cloud-based digital form? Booking the BiLD team to complete your BEVA means that at no additional up-front cost, your building's information will be available via the BiLD app in the cloud. From there you can track maintenance, upload documents, view old reports and gain valuable insights into how to improve your building's performance and ultimately save money!
Much like a traditional reserve fund study, a problem with a BEVA report is that after it is done, the data is never used again and it is never updated to reflect the current status of the building. With BiLD, not only does your data live in the cloud, but it is in a constant state of dynamic change based on our algorithms. Put simply, we utilize your data, and every other buildings' data to better project the design life, replacement cost, and maintenance cost of each component so that you can better plan for the future spending needs of your building as a whole.
A key feature of a BiLD BEVA report is the experience and methodology backing the data. BiLD sends engineers and architects to conduct the assessments, which brings a combined 25+ years of experience in the industry. This equates to auditing over 4 million square feet of building space across Alberta! Our expertise and utilization of our in-house app ensures that the information BiLD is gathering is relevant, accurate and reliable!