Core Competencies in Federal Facilities Asset Management

AM Foundational Thinking Miniseries

This installment in the Foundational Thinking miniseries covers the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management Through 2020 that was released in 2008. This report supports recommendations in NASEM’s two preceding reports: Stewardship for Federal Facilities and Investments in Federal Facilities. Recommendations contained therein focused on the need to develop personnel competencies in facility asset management as a precursor to advancing an organization’s asset management culture and capabilities. The need for Core Competencies to be written 10 years and 4 years after each of the preceding reports respectively recognizes these recommendations were not sufficiently acted upon. It also recognizes that the leading way to implement effective facility asset management is to train your workforce on its principles, concepts, and methods.

Core Competencies provides a time capsule on what leading thinkers thought was…