Reasons to Implement and Maintain an Assessment Program

• Business Justification:
  • Compliance with legal and moral obligations
  • Insurance rates
  • Consistent measurable budget requirement
• Plant Reliability
  • Higher stresses cause more frequent and severe failures
  • Overloaded members cause leakage and machinery failure which reduces equipment efficiency
  • Machinery alignment problems from over-loaded members and deteriorating foundations
• Maintainability
  • More cost efficient to address minor issues than major failures
  • More predictable efforts in maintaining than in repair/replacement
• General Safety
  • Falling debris from spalling fireproofing and deteriorating members
  • Leaking chemicals
  • Potential collapse, outside of a fire event, from corrosion or deterioration of underlying members
  • Premature collapse during a fire event due to decreased fire rating