Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities

AM Foundational Thinking

This installment in the Foundational Thinking miniseries finishes its chronology with a review of National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) recently released Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. This report is based on research that included every source identified in this chronology, dozens of additional Government Accountably Office (GAO) reports, and many more. Strategies recognized that across the thirty plus years covered in this chronology that organizations have not yet developed an effective business case for facility portfolio renewal.

Given the persistence of this problem, the committee that authored Strategies channeled Albert Einstein’s wisdom paraphrased as - we cannot solve some problems with the same thinking we used to define them. The outcome of this thinking is Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. This report looked at the problem differently. It viewed development of a portfolio renewal business case not as a sum of facility life cycle ma…