The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is revolutionizing its facilities planning process to dramatically improve project scope, schedule, and budget performance to support an enterprise infrastructure capital investment strategy. The VA’s medical center inventory has exceeded its useful life with an average age more than sixty years old. As the nation’s largest healthcare network, a status quo approach to recapitalization will not effectively alter the facility lifecycle management of the VA’s massive inventory. The VA needed to pursue a radical implementation strategy to aggressively address the needs of its Veterans. The VA’s new implementation strategy prioritizes planning resources to effectively support the enterprise, informs the decision-making process, introduces governance to ensure stakeholder buy in, improves alignment of budget requests, and accelerates project performance.
This presentation provides an overview of VA’s past planning, design, and construction challenges; describes how those challenges generated a call to action to improve portfolio planning and project performance; outlines the revised capital investment planning process; and finally, identifies lessons learned for other organization to improve their facility lifecycle management process. The VA’s development of a comprehensive enterprise facility planning strategy generates innovative solutions that support that leverage government and industry to help solve the VA’s complex infrastructure challenge.
Core Competencies: Strategic Planning; Space Planning and Programming; Design; Equipment Planning; Construction Management; Transition Planning
AIA Course Number: 2024.04.009
AIA CEU = 1 LU