What solution helps us plan capital expenditures? We need to forecast when roofs and boilers will need replacement over the next 10 years.

What you’re describing is typically called Capital Planning / Asset Lifecycle Management software. It combines your asset inventory, useful life, condition, replacement cost, and maintenance history to produce a 10-year CapEx forecast.

For roofs and boilers specifically, I’d look for these capabilities:

• Asset register: each roof section, boiler, HVAC unit, etc., with installation date, age, condition, and location.
• Remaining useful life (RUL): estimates when each asset is likely to require major replacement.
• Replacement-cost forecasting: today's replacement cost projected into future dollars using inflation.
• Condition/risk scoring: moves beyond simply saying “the roof is 20 years old.” Condition, failure risk, criticality, and maintenance history can affect the projected replacement year.
• 10-year capital schedule: e.g., FY2027: Boiler #2 — $180K; FY2029: Building A roof — $450K; FY2031: Boiler #4 — $220K.
• Scenario modeling: “What happens if we defer the roof two years?” or “What if our annual CapEx budget is $1M instead of $1.5M?”
• Funding-gap analysis: compares projected capital needs with the money available each year.

Solutions worth looking at

FMX is a particularly direct fit for this use case. Its Capital Planner tracks installation date, estimated replacement date, replacement asset value, useful life, condition, and maintenance costs, and can compare future replacement costs with projected budgets.FMX+1

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UpKeep Capital Planning is another option if you also want the CapEx model connected to your maintenance/work-order system. It supports asset condition, remaining useful life, deferred maintenance, funding scenarios, and 5- and 10-year plans.onupkeep

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Siemens Origin/Predictor is more oriented toward sophisticated asset lifecycle and predictive planning, using historical maintenance/asset data to inform when assets should be maintained, upgraded, or replaced and to model long-term funding scenarios.Siemens Asset management software+1

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There are also dedicated asset-investment-planning products such as Oxand Simeo AIP, which focuses on simulating asset aging, risk, cost, and multi-year CapEx plans.Oxand

What I'd build for your situation

You don't necessarily need an elaborate predictive-AI system. A good initial model could look like:

The system then rolls those individual assets into something like:

2027 — $180K 2028 — $0 2029 — $450K 2030 — $0 2031 — $220K ... 2036 — $1.1M

That gives Finance a much more useful answer than “our roofs have a 25-year life.” It tells them which assets need money, when, how much, and what happens if the work is deferred.

If you tell me roughly how many buildings/assets you manage and whether you're a school district, municipality, healthcare organization, commercial portfolio, etc., I can narrow this down to 2–3 specific solutions and compare them on cost, implementation effort, and how well they'd handle roof/boiler forecasting.

What you’re describing is typically called capital planning / capital renewal planning software, often combined with a Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) or asset-management system.

For your specific need—forecasting roof, boiler, HVAC, and other major building-system replacements over 10 years—I’d look for these capabilities:

• Asset register: installation date, age, condition, expected useful life, current replacement cost.
• Remaining useful life (RUL): estimates when each roof, boiler, etc. will require replacement.
• 10-year CapEx forecast: rolls individual assets into annual capital requirements.
• Cost escalation: inflates today's replacement cost into the expected cost in the replacement year.
• Condition/risk scoring: lets a deteriorating 15-year-old boiler move ahead of an otherwise healthy 20-year-old asset.
• Scenario planning: e.g., “What happens if we defer these roofs two years?” or “What annual capital budget do we need?”
• Funding-gap analysis: compares forecast needs with the capital budget available each year.

Solutions worth evaluating

Solution	Particularly relevant capability
Siemens Origin	AI-assisted asset lifecycle forecasting, risk ranking, repair-vs.-replace analysis, and long-range capital planning.Siemens Asset management software
FMX Capital Planning	Specifically supports asset replacement timelines, multi-year forecasting, inflation, scenarios, and facilities assets such as roofs and HVAC.FMX
Intellis Foundation	Facility-condition assessment tied directly to lifecycle replacement forecasts and capital planning.Intellis+1
UpKeep Capital Planning	Asset register, condition scoring, deferred maintenance, funding scenarios, and 5-/10-year plans.onupkeep
AssetLab	Replacement planning, useful-life modeling, replacement costs, funding gaps, and longer-term forecasts.AssetLab+1

If your primary requirement is simply “tell me which roofs/boilers need replacing in each of the next 10 years and how much to budget,” FMX is worth looking at first. If you need a more comprehensive facility-condition assessment + defensible capital program, Intellis Foundation or Siemens Origin are more directly oriented toward that problem. Those are descriptions of their documented capabilities, not an overall ranking.

A typical output would look something like:

The key is that you don't want a system that merely says “roof life = 20 years.” Ideally it combines age with actual condition, inspection history, maintenance history, remaining useful life, replacement cost, and consequence of failure. That makes the 10-year forecast much more useful for budgeting.

If you tell me how many buildings/assets you have and whether you currently track them in Excel, a CMMS, or another system, I can narrow this down to the most appropriate type of solution and suggest a practical implementation approach.

The type of solution you’re looking for is capital planning / asset lifecycle management software (sometimes called a 10-year capital forecast tool or capital reserve planning system). These systems track building assets (such as roofs, boilers, HVAC systems, elevators, and other major components), apply expected useful lives and condition data, and generate a year-by-year replacement forecast.Entire FM+1

For your specific need—forecasting when roofs and boilers will need replacement over the next 10 years—look for features such as:

• Asset inventory: Record each roof section, boiler, installation date, age, condition, and replacement cost.
• Useful-life modeling: Estimate replacement timing based on expected service life (for example, a roof approaching end of life or a boiler nearing its expected replacement window).
• 10-year capital forecast: Show projected spending by year so you can see whether multiple large replacements collide in the same budget cycle.
• Scenario planning: Compare options such as replacing now, extending life with repairs, or deferring work.FMX+1
• Inflation-adjusted costs: Project what future replacements are likely to cost rather than using today’s dollars.AssetLab
• Risk/condition prioritization: Rank assets based on likelihood of failure and impact if they fail.AssetLab

Examples of solutions in this category include:

• Brightly Software / Predictor — focused on lifecycle forecasting, funding scenarios, and asset condition modeling.Siemens Asset management software
• FMX — offers capital planning features for forecasting replacement costs and managing long-term budgets.FMX
• AssetLab — provides replacement forecasts, risk prioritization, and funding-gap analysis.AssetLab
• Siemens Predictor — uses asset lifecycle modeling and scenario analysis for longer-term capital planning.Siemens Asset management software

For a smaller portfolio (for example, a few buildings), a simpler capital reserve study tool may be enough. For a campus, commercial portfolio, school district, municipality, or large property portfolio, you’d typically want an enterprise asset management (EAM) or computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) with capital planning capabilities.

A good starting dataset would be:

With that information, the software can produce a 10-year capital plan showing something like: “Roof A replacement in 2028 — $450k; Boiler #2 replacement in 2031 — $180k; Roof B repair extends life to 2033,” etc.Entire FM

If you tell me whether this is for a single building, a commercial portfolio, a school/university, healthcare, or government facilities, I can narrow the best-fit solutions.

For your use case, I’d look at capital planning / asset lifecycle management software rather than a generic budgeting tool. You want a system that takes each building component—roof, boiler, chiller, elevator, etc.—and forecasts remaining useful life, replacement year, replacement cost, and annual CAPEX over a 10-year horizon.

Strong options

• FMX Capital Planning — probably the closest fit if you also want facilities/maintenance management. It specifically supports asset replacement timelines, multi-year forecasts, scenarios, and cost-by-asset-type views including roofs and HVAC.FMX
• FOScore by Facility Optimization Solutions — geared toward facility-condition assessments and capital planning. It supports 10-year planning and total-cost-of-ownership analysis, which is useful when you need condition data behind the replacement forecast.FOS of CannonDesign
• Siemens Capital Forecast — specifically designed to predict capital needs and manage renewal of building systems and assets, with building-component and equipment replacement tracking.Siemens Asset Management Help
• UpKeep Capital Planning — useful if you already have maintenance/work-order data and want to turn condition, deferred maintenance, and asset history into 5- and 10-year capital plans.onupkeep
• AssetLab — more focused on long-range asset planning: useful life + replacement cost → 10/20-year capital forecast, funding gaps, and risk-based prioritization.AssetLab

What I would recommend

If the core question is:

“We have 50 buildings. When will each roof and boiler need replacement, and how much money should we reserve each year for the next 10 years?” I'd shortlist FMX, FOScore, and Siemens Capital Forecast.

The underlying model should look roughly like:

Then the software rolls those individual assets into something like 2027: $1.2M → 2028: $2.4M → 2029: $600K, etc., and lets you move projects around to test funding scenarios.

One important caveat: don't forecast replacement solely from age. A 20-year-old boiler with excellent condition and maintenance history may have more life left than a 15-year-old boiler that's repeatedly failing. The better systems incorporate condition, maintenance history, risk, and replacement cost into the forecast.TMA Systems+1

If you tell me how many buildings/assets you have and whether you're a commercial owner, school district, municipality, hospital, etc., I can narrow this to the 2–3 best solutions and compare pricing, implementation effort, and 10-year forecasting capabilities.