KPI 3.6: Deferred Maintenance Backlog

Relates to priority: Provide Inspiring Spaces


Deferred Maintenance (DM) is planned facilities maintenance that has been deferred on a planned or unplanned basis to a future budget cycle or just postponed until funds become available.

UBC currently addresses DM through the Routine Capital program. This involves annual expenditures of ~$50 million on renewal of building systems, utilities and municipal infrastructure. The Provincial government funds 75% of this program. Despite this substantial investment, the absolute DM value at UBC has recently been increasing due to cost escalation and buildings aging.

Outcome

To ensure our physical and digital spaces further the university’s academic mission and inspire those that use them.

Target

Annually reduce the amount of Deferred Maintenance backlog.

Measure

Amount ($B CAD) of Deferred Maintenance backlog 5-year forecast.

Reporting Frequency

Annually — last updated on April 2021.


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Our Strategic Priorities

Our priorities provide a framework containing the objectives of our Strategic Plan, and they help contextualize the overarching aims of the VPFO. Progress towards achieving our strategic priorities is tracked by selected Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Provide Inspiring Spaces

As a team we create and maintain both physical, and digital spaces at UBC, and it’s important that these spaces further our academic mission while inspiring those that use them. We are custodians of UBC’s infrastructure and are instrumental in ensuring our campuses are safe, functional, beautiful and enable learning.