A reserve fund study your board can defend
Longspan shows every assumption behind your funding number and what happens when one of them moves. A licensed Professional Engineer reviews and seals every report. When an owner asks how you got the number, you can show them.
See what drives the number
Most reserve fund studies give the board one number and no way to see what produced it. The answer depends on settings the board never sees: how fast costs are assumed to rise, how long each component is assumed to last, how much interest the fund is assumed to earn. Move any one of them and the funding answer changes. A Longspan study puts every setting on the page and shows what each one does to your contributions.
Six systems carry most of the cost
Roof, building envelope, plumbing risers, heating and cooling plant, elevators, parking structure. A Longspan study forecasts a range of cost and timing for each, built from how comparable buildings have actually aged. The rest of the inventory is covered to the standard your statute requires.
Roof
When replacement is likely, year by year, and the range of cost if it happens.
How it's forecastBuilding envelope
When wall, window, and cladding work is likely, and the range of what it could cost.
How it's forecastPlumbing risers
When riser renewal is likely, and the range of cost in the years it could happen.
How it's forecastHeating and cooling plant
When the central plant is likely to need replacement, and the range of cost when it does.
How it's forecastElevators
When modernization is likely, and the range of cost when it comes.
How it's forecastParking structure
When structural repair is likely, and the range of cost the plan should carry.
How it's forecastHow it works, in brief
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Records
The study starts from the building's own records, gathered once and integrated into the Longspan data model.
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Forecast
The engine forecasts a range of cost and timing for each major system, built from records of comparable buildings.
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Engineer review & seal
A licensed Professional Engineer reviews the forecast, takes responsibility for it, and seals the report.
What a Longspan study gives each reader
Show owners how you got the number
For boards PROPERTY MANAGERSPut a sealed engineer's report behind every recommendation
For property managers LENDERS & REVIEWERSA dated, sealed report with a labelled funding plan your review can reference
Lenders & reviewers SOFTWARE PARTNERS & ENGINEERSStructured study data and a working partnership path
Partners & engineersWhy this exists now
Several provinces now require condominium corporations to commission a reserve fund study on a fixed cycle. The boards that answer for the funding plan at an AGM deserve to see what is behind it.
Every study adds to your building's record
A building's knowledge is scattered across engineering reports, board minutes, invoices, work orders, and financial statements. The reserve fund study is the one document that draws on all of it. Each Longspan study organizes what it gathers into a structured record of your building — components, conditions, decisions, costs. The record stays with the building through board turnover and manager changes, and every study after the first starts from it.