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Higher Education HVAC downtime risk

Campuses whose halls, animal rooms and containment suites run off one plant. A vacate order here is counted in bed-nights, not in hours.

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Estimate using Facility records Hourly loss

Step 2Pull the housing roster and vacate order

Beds in the halls this system heats or coolsbedsNot set

05,000

The housing roster has the bed count for those halls.

Nights under a vacate order in those roomsnightsNot set

0120

The vacate order states the nights it covered.

Housing charge for one bed for one night$

Published schedule: CSU East Bay, its housing rates for 2026-2027.

Condition of use: This is the campus's published payment schedule, not a binding fee schedule. The schedule says its dates and rates can change by order of the Chancellor.

Condition of use: License clause 5(j) adjusts any fees. The meal plan and the activity fee are adjusted too. A figure built from rent alone is a floor.

25.79CSU East Bay housing schedule53.18

The campus housing payment schedule carries the charge for one bed.

Did the university have an alternate bed or living unit available?

Yes means the campus had another bed free for those students.

Was the failure reasonably foreseeable when the university signed?

Yes means the campus could have seen this failure coming when it signed.

Rehousing paid per student per night$Not set

02,000

The campus invoices show what one student cost for one night.

Is there a quoted rental lead time for this hall?

Yes means a rental vendor has quoted a lead time for this building.

Step 3Describe the equipment serving those buildings

Tickets already sold for events inside this buildingseatsNot set

0100,000

The box office has the count for those events.

Revenue per seat, ticket plus concessions$Not set

01,000

The campus event records show what one seat brought in.

Summer conference or camp beds contracted in this buildingbedsNot set

05,000

The signed conference contract names the beds the campus agreed to supply.

Nights those contracted beds were unusablenightsNot set

0120

The count is whole nights those beds could not be slept in.

Contracted nightly rate for those beds$Not set

01,000

The signed conference contract states the nightly rate.

Hottest reading measured inside during the outagedegrees FNot set

A thermometer or the building controls give the highest reading.

Animal holding rooms this system servesroomsNot set

0200

The animal facility room list has the count.

BSL-3 or select-agent suites on this systemsuitesNot set

050

The count covers the containment suites this system serves.

Refrigerant charge in the largest affected unitpoundsNot set

05,000

The nameplate on the largest affected unit states its refrigerant charge.

Questions included in this metric

Every question in this panel feeds the figures beside it. Nothing is set aside.

Starting values, blanks and sources

Every box below opens blank, or at a starting value. A starting value stands only until the site's own figure takes its place. It is named under its box, with its source, and with its working one symbol away. A blank box is refused by name until the site answers it. Every box says why behind the information symbol beside its question.

Similar outages per year

events / year

Repair costs to include

Select only costs not already counted above.

Temporary equipment Emergency labor and installation Return visits

Facility and coverage context · optional

These answers support a review. They do not add penalties, assume an insurance payment, or erase a loss already entered.

Estimated financial risk

Operating rooms

Before insurance

Annual risk today

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Annual risk with CARE

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Estimated annual risk reduction

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Risk per surgery minute

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Retired model compatibility data

Compliance exposure

Published duties with a section number. No economics. No assumptions. Nothing out of the finance office.

Nothing is here yet, because this list is waiting on answers. It waits on plain readings taken off the campus's own records: the hottest reading measured inside during the outage, the refrigerant charge in the largest affected unit, the animal holding rooms and containment suites this system serves. A published rule that one of those readings crosses then appears here with its section number. A rule whose box is still blank is named here as untested, never as passed.

Cash

What the event costs the site, from its own contract and its own logs.

Nothing is here yet, because this list is waiting on answers. It waits on two things at once: the nights those rooms sat under a vacate order, and the housing charge the campus already sets for one bed for one night. A price nobody has agreed to in writing is not invented here. An answer of zero is a real answer, and it is priced at zero rather than dropped from the list.

Revenue

A figure shows here only where a ticket price or a booking contract puts a rate on it.

Nothing is here yet, because this list is waiting on answers. It waits on two things at once: the tickets already sold for events inside this building and the nights contracted conference beds went unusable, and the revenue per seat and the nightly rate written into those bookings. A rate nobody has put in writing is not invented here. Where the rate is in hand and the box beside it is blank, the blank box is named here instead.

Outcome

Reported, never priced. CCMS would have to guess at a dollar here, and a guess belongs in a conversation.

Nothing is here yet, and nothing is waiting on an answer either. No box on this page feeds this list. The nights those rooms sat under a vacate order are two facts at once, a housing fact and a student-experience fact, and this page prices the first and leaves the second to the people who know the students. This list never carries a dollar, and it is never added into the money lists on this panel.

These four lists are never added to each other. A duty owed under a rule is not a revenue estimate. Adding them lets a reader discount both. One strip at the foot of this panel carries an annual figure. That strip is the only place a combined figure appears.

What this analysis did not put a number on

Cleaning up mold after the event. Mold cleanup is scoped by a walk-through, not by a form field. What it costs per unit is CCMS's to quote.
Research work lost while the space was unusable. Money spent on sponsored research is not the same as research lost. No one can fix the fraction that turns one into the other at a single campus. So this page prints no number for it.
Cell lines and animal colonies that cannot be replaced. What a lost cell line or animal colony costs to rebuild depends on the work. A benchmark would be a guess dressed as a figure.
A dollar figure put on a regulatory deadline. The clocks are real and this page lists them. Putting a dollar on a deadline is not the same thing.
What a CCMS response costs. What a CCMS response costs is a conversation, not a field.
The higher energy bill a damaged plant leaves behind. A damaged plant costs more to run every day after the event. Pricing that needs the campus's own bills, corrected for the weather. That is assessment work.
Instructional revenue loss. Canceled class time does not reduce tuition already billed, so there is no revenue line to price. Saying so is more honest than a number.
Any campus-wide dollars-per-hour figure. There is no such rate. Higher ed has one equation per kind of space. A single campus-wide hourly figure would be the failure, not the figure at the top.
A forecast of how often this recurs. How often a hall loses heating or cooling is not forecast here. The count in the box is the campus's own, read off its service history. The annual figure is that count times the event priced above.

What a year of this costs, and what the CARE system takes off it

CARE is CCMS's own service program rather than an industry term, and no outside body defines it. The name lists what the program does: clarify condition, anticipate failure, reduce downtime and lifecycle cost, extend asset life. The part of the program that shortens an outage is a shelf of critical spare parts kept on site. On this page it comes off three lines, the residence hall bed-night credit, the rehousing the campus paid, and the contracted conference bed-nights. The third figure is what the spares level set above takes off those three, which is CCMS's own operating judgment rather than a promise.

Critical spares level

The level says how much of the critical spares list is on the shelf when the failure happens.

Events like this one in a year

events per year

The site's own service history has the count.

Annual cost today

Not set

Annual cost with CARE

Not set

Annual cost the CARE system takes off

Not set

The annual figure is the per-event figure times the count stated above. Both parts appear here as soon as the questions above come to a figure.

Downtime cost per unit

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Resident bed-night

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Building types and method

Step 1

Which building is this?

This page is built for higher Education. Choose another building type if needed.

How this is different

Every box opens blank, or at a starting value. A starting value stands only until the site's own figure takes its place. Where CCMS cannot source something honestly, this page leaves it out and names it.

Questions, and every one of them this building type's own

16 of them sit in the two steps below. The count of events in a year sits at the foot of the panel. Each one comes off this market's own contract language and its own published rates. A question CCMS cannot source honestly is not asked.

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Higher Education HVAC downtime risk

Your estimate

Step 2Pull the housing roster and vacate order

Step 3Describe the equipment serving those buildings

Repair costs to include

Temporary equipment

Emergency labor and installation

Return visits

Which building is this?

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