The Association of Facilities Managers

Abstract

Although the job has existed since commercial premises began, the profession of facilities management is less than 10 years old. Moves towards achieving coherence as a professional group began in the United States, where as early as 1975 an annotated bibliography on planning educational facilities was published. This was followed by the appearance in 1980 of a new journal, Facilities Design and Management, the introduction of the first graduate programme in Facility Planning and Management at Cornell, and the establishment of two groups — the FMI and the IFMA — to represent the interests of those involved in facilities management on a day‐to‐day basis.

Citation

Bell, J. (1986), "The Association of Facilities Managers", Facilities, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 14-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006353