CBRE CostLab vs Facilities Planner

CBRE CostLab is a web-based application for estimating and comparing facility operating costs across more than 400 locations and 75+ asset types worldwide. It provides equipment-level estimates for maintenance and repair, custodial work, energy, grounds management, and pest control. Its Cost Library includes labor, utility, and inflation rates, maintenance tasks, operating details, recapitalization assumptions, and national indexes. The Building Wizard uses seven questions to create a component-level estimate; Project Builder groups maintenance and repair work into projects and estimates material, labor, and equipment needs. For capital planning, CostLab estimates equipment failure probability and helps prioritize replacements by portfolio risk and budget. Users can customize building models and adjust rates and task assumptions. It also identifies deferred maintenance by equipment and provides deferred-cost reports and Facility Condition Index estimates. Mass Data Export sends annual and average asset costs, yearly task costs, deferred costs, and inventory to Excel. Access is through a browser on a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Paid plans include a 7-day trial; there is no free plan.

Facilities Planner is cloud-based facility and capital planning software for municipalities, facility leaders and organizations managing building needs. It gathers facility information such as acreage, square footage, capacity, condition assessments and building-system life cycles. Records can include site plans, floor plans, CAD files and photos. An interactive dashboard stays connected to the underlying data, updates automatically and works on desktop, laptop and mobile devices. Building systems are organized by location, description and age, with a life-cycle gauge for aging assets. OmniClass assessments record condition, priority and preliminary repair or replacement costs. Capital planning groups projects by facility, type, schedule and budget range. Users can create unlimited funding scenarios, move projects between them, review cost impacts and track unassigned or unapproved work with an audit trail. Custom contingency rates apply by project type, timeline and facility. Pricing is on request, based on facilities or mainly square footage.