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                AUTOMATED OPERATIONS,  MAINTENANCE
                     AND FACILITY  MANAGEMENT

                         By Ronald L. King
            Group Director,  General Accounting Office


Our final segment today  deals with building operations and

maintenance and facility  management.  This is easily the largest

segment of the building  process.  The area is large both in terms

of the time span it  covers and in the number of diverse function!

which are included  in these activities.  (Slide 1.)  This

afternoon I would  like to (1) define what we mean when we  say

facility management  since it has many meanings;  (2) describe, in

management terms,  the information resource needs of the  facility

manager, and  (3) discuss some of the current developments  in the

area and what  still needs to be done.



WHAT  IS FACILITY MANAGEMENT?



While the term  facility management has been around  for many

years, it  still means different things to  different people, and

organizations  are often structured quite differently  to carry ou

facility  management responsibilities.   (Slide 2.)  Facility

management  covers a wide range of'diverse  activities and tasks

(Slide  3) and involves many different  skills and various diverse

disciplines,  each of which have traditionally  viewed facility

management  from their own, often  limited, perspective.



The  term facility means more  than just the space in which we
work.   Facilities are all of the  productive resources we have  ir

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