Los Angeles county is the largest county in the U.S. with 10 million residents and a vast system of social and utility infrastructure to support its population. The County of Los Angeles has a unique challenge in understanding and managing its significant holdings across 4,000 square miles to address ongoing maintenance and use, but also to evolve alongside community requirements and conditions. For a decade, our asset advisory team has worked with the County to assess and document facilities and open space ranging from buildings to parks, from historic to contemporary structures, and from cultural to industrial facility types. To support the scale of work, we developed an efficient assessment methodology and reporting system in the form of custom software and a cloud-hosted database— collectively known as the SAM (Strategic Asset Management) system, and we have embraced local small-business enterprises to work with us in the field and with the database. In addition to achieving the program’s core objective of assessing buildings, our bespoke database and software enabled many positive synergies within the County: first, a complete refresh of the County’s decades-old real estate records. Second, the extensive amount of data will enable more targeted assessments in the future. Third, the results enabled numerous departments to synchronize their property data for the first time in decades. As a steward of resident safety and fiscal responsibility, it is equally important to note that this work saves the County a significant amount of money in emergency repairs and operational interruptions, and has identified crucial health and safety risks present in public structures.
Client
County of Los Angeles
Services
- Asset Advisory
