Facility Management Systems

The authors provide a formal approach to decision making, problem solving, and eval- uation of each stage of the.facility cycle, from the feasibility study to design, construc- tion, and occupancy. This is the first book to provide a systematic methodology for building design encompassing complexities such as owner/user disparity, large design teams, resource conservation, and computerized database manipulation. It covers new analytic techniques, including function analysis, group creativity, life-cycle cost- ing, decision analysis, and POE. New methodologies are covered for information gathering, speculation, evaluation, and synthesis.