This section covers the ICRA Level Assessor, the Process and Compliance Roadmap generator, and the Project Brief Builder, together the "Tools". Read it before you rely on anything they produce.
They are not professional advice
The Tools do not provide infection prevention advice, medical advice, architectural or engineering services, code consulting, or legal advice. Using them creates no professional relationship of any kind. They are planning aids meant to help you frame a conversation with the qualified professionals who are accountable for your project.
They know almost nothing about your building
The ICRA Assessor and the Roadmap generator work from four dropdown selections each. The Brief Builder works from the notes you type. None of them has seen your drawings, your existing conditions, your air handling, your pressure relationships, your current census, your seismic or fire ratings, your interim life safety measures, or your facility's own policies. Output that ignores those things is not wrong because the tool failed. It is a limit of what the tool was ever able to know.
ICRA output is not an ICRA permit
The ICRA Assessor produces an indicative class and a checklist. It does not issue, replace, or approve an infection control risk assessment or an ICRA permit. Under ASHE and APIC guidance and your own facility's policy, the governing risk assessment must be performed and authorized by your facility's Infection Prevention personnel, working with the facility's Safety and Facilities functions. Do not mobilize work, erect barriers, or set containment on the strength of this output. Take it to your infection preventionist and let them decide.
Roadmap output is not a schedule
The Process and Compliance Roadmap produces a baseline illustration of phasing and sequence. It is not a contractual schedule, not a construction schedule, not a commitment of duration, and not a representation that any permit or approval will be granted in any timeframe. It deliberately contains no pricing and must not be used for budgeting, funding requests, or board approvals.
Brief Builder output is not an RFP
The Project Brief Builder produces a draft document for discussion. It is not a request for proposal, not a scope of work, not a specification, not a bid, and not an acceptance of any scope by us. Submitting a draft to our estimating team starts a conversation and nothing more.
Review by the authority having jurisdiction is still required
Any real project must be reviewed, permitted, and inspected by the authorities having jurisdiction. Depending on the facility that can include the California Department of Health Care Access and Information, formerly OSHPD, the local building department, the fire authority, the California Department of Public Health, and your facility's Inspector of Record. Nothing produced by these Tools substitutes for that review, anticipates its outcome, or binds any regulator. Codes, standards, and guidance change; the Tools are not a code database and are not maintained as one.
Verify before you rely
Confirm every output against current codes, current standards, your facility's policies, and the judgment of your own qualified professionals. If output conflicts with what your infection preventionist, your engineer of record, or your AHJ tells you, they are right and the tool is wrong.