The Association of Facilities Managers

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.