Photo By Staff Sgt. Brittany Cannon | Citizen-Airmen within the 231st Civil Engineering Flight, Missouri Air National Guard...... read more read more
JEFFERSON BARRACKS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mo. -- More than 25 Citizen-Airmen from the 231st Civil Engineering Flight within the Missouri Air National Guard recently trained here on the Builder Sustainment Management System in order to prepare to meet requirements for a new tasking.
Builder is a web-based software application to help civil engineers, technicians and managers decide when, where and how to best maintain building structure. Engineers from the 231st attended the half-day class to learn how to use the Builder software program.
The Builder program provides a more proactive means of asset management and resource allocation. In turn, these knowledge-based principles have been proven to significantly lower the cost of re-inspections while providing more meaningful sustainment, restoration and modernization decisions.
The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is responsible for implementing the newly adopted program developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Both plan to inspect their respective building assets by September 2017.
“This is a more robust and systematic way for us to assess our buildings,” said Col. John Miget, 231st commander. “CE is transitioning from a more reactive strategy to a more proactive process for inspecting building assets.”
At the base level, this program provides scenario, trend and cost-analysis capabilities. The program’s condition index trend analysis can search through an inventory of the base’s buildings to estimate the best time to initiate maintenance or repairs up to several years in advance.
“The purpose of this training is to show Airmen what data set you are trying to acquire when inspecting a facility,” said Maj. Xzavior Hill, civil engineering functional area manager and Operation Support Branch chief from National Guard Bureau. The general rule for a building is that it has a lifespan of about 50 years. Over the course of those 50 years, a building should be inventoried, assessed, analyzed, have work planned out and forecasted.
“This program is about sustainment and revitalization of our building assets,” said Hill about the importance of the training. “Builder is about integrating functionality across every Air Force unit.”
There are over 300,000 Department of Defense-owned buildings, which range in condition from critical and in need of repair, to brand new with no issues. The Builder program was developed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Lab, and is being introduced and implemented across DoD.
National Guard staff augmentation teams are civil engineer experts that go wherever the state or nation needs them in order to augment critical staff positions. The 231st is the only staff augmentation team in Missouri and was the first s-“S-team” to volunteer to take on the new training. Once trained, the unit will be able to travel all over the world to help assess every facility in the Air Force.
“I am really proud of our team,” said Miget. “We step up every time we can to help.”
| Date Taken: | 06.04.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 06.04.2016 14:36 |
| Story ID: | 199978 |
| Location: | ST. LOUIS, MO, US |
| Hometown: | ST. LOUIS, MO, US |
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