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The notebook that walked the steam traps should not retire with one person.
Campus crews are small, and the person who “knows the tunnels” is a single point of failure. Tidep is the route, written so someone else can walk it this heating season.
A campus is a bad place to begin with a full asset inventory. There are too many rooms and not enough people. St. Brice College has a facilities crew of eleven and about 2,400 students. They put the steam-trap route in first, because it lived in one notebook. Three people walked it last heating season. The hood checks came after, room by room, as the semester allowed.
Dorm rounds are different from traps. They are a list of conditions, not a single reading, and the deficiency is often “this can wait until break” or “this cannot.” Held items carry a review date so break is a date and not a feeling.
We are not a work-order system for every lamp on campus. If that is the procurement you are in, Tidep will feel too small, and that is the right outcome. If you want the rounds you already walk to survive a retirement, start there.