Infrastructure Condition Index by Harmelo

For building owners and organizations

Start from what is actually known about a building

Infrastructure Condition Index is a free public tool. It turns what your people already know into a dated Condition Profile, names the information that is missing, and adds local climate and recorded-event context for the area a building sits in.

Where an organization wants that record to continue as work happens, Harmelo provides the ongoing institutional record. ICI is free to use. Harmelo implementation is a paid engagement.

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The top of an example Condition Profile: its header and date, then Your building, with an ICI Score of 79 out of 100 (Good) beside evidence coverage of 65 percent, 4 of 5 major systems documented, and the method label Method 2.4, pre-ratification.
A Condition Profile, produced from answers alone. The ICI Score sits beside its evidence coverage, each system says what it rests on, and anything not known is listed rather than scored.

Who this is for

A five-storey brick apartment building with balconies, behind street trees.
Multi-unit housing
A three-storey glass and stone public building set in landscaped grounds, mountains behind.
Public and institutional buildings
A clean commercial mechanical room with boilers, insulated piping and air handling equipment.
The systems inside them

  • Affordable housing providers

    Many buildings, uneven records, and budget conversations that start from whatever the last person remembered.

  • Municipalities and public bodies

    Facilities held for decades, where the record has to outlive the staff who built it.

  • Condominium and portfolio managers

    Boards and owners asking what is installed, how old it is, and what has no paperwork behind it.

  • Commercial building owners

    A consistent starting record before scoping work or comparing contractor proposals.

  • Research and retrofit programmes

    Consistent public information across many buildings or communities, gathered the same way each time.

  • Anyone starting from scratch

    One building, a few minutes. That is a legitimate way to begin.

What ICI does

Every answer is labelled by what it rests on: a reported record, best knowledge, or not known.

Equipment fields for windows: year installed 2011, how you know (I have a document for this), brand Lennox, model number ML196UH070XE36B, serial number, and warranty information, with notes that these details are optional and that ICI does not verify equipment details.
Optional equipment details, recorded as provided and not verified. Notice the answer to how you know sits beside the year, and each field says ICI does not verify it.

The experience, in three parts

  1. Check a building

    Answer what you can. Nothing you skip counts against the building.

  2. Understand local conditions

    The Building Almanac shows what was measured near that postal area, which station it came from, how far away and over what period, and what those conditions may place demand on.

  3. See what is missing

    Gaps are listed as gaps. Information nobody had is never counted as a fault in the building, and it is named so it can be found later.

Local context, sourced

Every figure says what it is, where it came from, how far away it was measured and what years it covers. The nearest qualifying station is chosen separately for each measure, so one result can legitimately draw on more than one station. Local conditions describe an area, never one building, and they never change a Condition Profile result.

What has been measured nearby for postal area T3B: six measures, each from the Calgary airport station 13.4 km from the postal-area reference point over 1991 to 2020 — extreme heat 4.8 days a year above 30 °C, extreme cold 21.6 days a year below −20 °C, snowfall 138.7 cm a year, snow on ground 3.5 days a year with 20 cm or more, heating degree days 4993.7, cooling degree days 43.7 — each stating its source and that it is not a reading at this building.
Local conditions, with the station and distance behind every number. Notice that each measure names its station, its distance from the postal-area reference point and its period, and says it is not a reading at this building.

Gaps are named, not hidden

Where reliable local information is not available, the measure says so and explains what is missing. An absent record is never presented as evidence that a condition does not occur.

That is the point of the tool. An organization can see what is genuinely known, what is reported, and what nobody has yet.

What has been measured nearby for a postal area where most measures are not available: the one available measure names its station, distance and period; the others say they are not available for this postal area because no station publishing the measure lies within 50 km, and that this says nothing about whether the condition occurs there.
A partial result, stated plainly. Notice the measure that is available beside measures that say they are not, and why.

What Harmelo adds

ICI produces a dated starting record. Where an organization wants that record to continue as work happens, Harmelo maintains it: continuing asset and equipment history, standardized service records, warranty and recall information, attribution of who did the work, and visibility across a portfolio.

ICI is free. Harmelo implementation is a separate paid engagement. Nothing on this page predicts cost, condition or remaining life.

A four-storey residential building at sunset, with heat pump units mounted at its base.
Equipment changes over a building's life. A continuing record keeps up with it.

What ICI is not

ICI is an information resource. It reports what a visitor's best-known answers and reported supporting records indicate, and it does not receive or verify those records.

  • It is not a building condition assessment.
  • It is not an inspection.
  • It is not an EnerGuide evaluation.
  • It is not engineering advice.
  • It is not a reserve study or a depreciation report.
  • It is not professional risk analysis, and it does not predict failure.

Where something warrants a trade or a professional, the profile says so rather than answering for them.

Talk it through on one building

The fastest way to judge this is to run it on a building you know and see whether the record matches what your team already believes.

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Collecting building facts from site staff? The site information request prints a one-page sheet, one building at a time.