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BVS Commercial – The Foundation for Commercial Valuation and Exposure Analysis

MSB’s BVS Commercial™ (BVS) delivers objective, credible, and accurate building reconstruction cost estimates within a proven, cost-effective solution that integrates easily into your existing workflows. The trusted, locally researched and fully validated cost data provided by BVS is the foundation for rating, setting policy limits, procuring reinsurance, identifying and aggregating exposures and performing catastrophe modeling.

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MSB’s BVS Commercial meets your needs for valuation simplicity and efficiency with a workflow-driven design and an interface that is easy to learn and use. It features comprehensive reports, administrative tools and import and export capabilities to further streamline workflows and improve productivity and estimating consistency.

The construction cost data MSB provides reflects an unparalleled depth of research and proven understanding about commercial buildings, enabling users to develop accurate, risk-specific reconstruction estimates. Some of the structures and building components included in BVS Commercial are

• Lodging including apartments, condominiums, hotels, and motels
• Office buildings including banks, and low- and high-rise structures
• Retail including grocery stores, supermarkets, and drug stores
• Manufacturing and warehouse facilities including heavy construction, cold storage and “mega” warehouses
• Public buildings including churches, courthouses, city halls, and other government buildings
• Special usage buildings including indoor tennis clubs, ice rinks, and roller rinks
• Equipment such as tanks, conveyors, racks and cabinets, escalators, generators, and others

BVS Commercial is available via BVS Express™, a convenient Web-hosted environment, or in network or desktop installations. Regardless of how you choose to deploy BVS Commercial, the powerful component-designed architecture and ease of integration with your other critical business systems enable you to

• Create reconstruction cost estimates for commercial buildings, with the option to generate estimates on a new construction or actual cash value basis.
• Use just five pieces of readily available information to generate an estimate of building reconstruction costs
• Refine estimates by editing features in hundreds of categories, such as interior and exterior wall materials, roof covering and slope, interior finishes and details, mechanical systems, and commercial equipment,
• Access administrative tools and generate reports that can be printed in a variety of file formats for valuation archiving.

To ensure that our clients receive the most current building material and labor costs, MSB releases comprehensive data updates quarterly. An experienced team of research professionals in MSB’s Data Assets Management department collects and validates this data on a continual basis. The data researched includes

• Hard costs of labor, material, and equipment
• Soft costs of mark-ups, taxes, and fringes
• Additional construction variables including productivity rates, crew sizes and local building code requirements

The component-based architecture and knowledge tables in BVS automatically account for local engineering conditions and requirements when calculating replacement cost estimates. These requirements, which can vary widely from one geographical area to another, include special construction assemblies required to withstand any local condition.

The depth of commercial construction cost data and proven valuation technology in BVS Commercial gives you fast, consistent, and reliable estimates for virtually every type of commercial operation.