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Stewardship of Federal Facilities

A Proactive Strategy for Managing the Nation's Public Assets

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee to Assess Techniques for Developing Maintenance and Repair Budgets for Federal Facilities

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Stewardship of Federal Facilities

A Proactive Strategy for Managing the Nation's Public Assets

The federal government has invested more than $300 billion in 500,000 buildings and other facilities worldwide to support the provision of government services. Evidence is mounting that the physical condition, functionality, and quality of federal facilities are deteriorating. Stewardship of Federal Facilities identifies factors and processes contributing to this deterioration and recommends a framework of methods, practices, and strategies to foster accountability for the stewardship of federal facilities and to allocate resources for their maintenance and repair.

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030906189X

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Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Process

Best Practices for Reviewing Facility Designs

By: Standing Committee on Organizational Performance and Metrics,Federal Facilities Council,Ralph S. Spillinger

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Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Process

Best Practices for Reviewing Facility Designs

By: Standing Committee on Organizational Performance and Metrics,Federal Facilities Council,Ralph S. Spillinger

The federal government, like private corporations and other organizations, acquires buildings and other facilities to support specific functions and missions and the general conduct of its business. The federal government is, in fact, the nation's largest owner of buildings and spends more than $20 billion per year for facility design and construction. Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Processidentifies a range of best practices and technologies that can be used by federal agencies and other owners to provide adequate management and oversight of design reviews throughout the facility acquisition process.

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0309172241

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Capabilities for the Future

An Assessment of NASA Laboratories for Basic Research

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Space Studies Board,Laboratory Assessments Board,Committee on the Assessment of NASA Laboratory Capabilities

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Capabilities for the Future

An Assessment of NASA Laboratories for Basic Research

Over the past 5 years or more, there has been a steady and significant decrease in NASA's laboratory capabilities, including equipment, maintenance, and facility upgrades. This adversely affects the support of NASA's scientists, who rely on these capabilities, as well as NASA's ability to make the basic scientific and technical contributions that others depend on for programs of national importance. The fundamental research community at NASA has been severely impacted by the budget reductions that are responsible for this decrease in laboratory capabilities, and as a result NASA's ability to support even NASA's future goals is in serious jeopardy.

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0309153514

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Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities

Strategies and Approaches for Transformational Change

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Committee on High-Performance Green Federal Buildings: Strategies and Approaches for Meeting Federal Objectives

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Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities

Strategies and Approaches for Transformational Change

The design, construction, operation, and retrofit of buildings is evolving in response to ever-increasing knowledge about the impact of indoor environments on people and the impact of buildings on the environment. Research has shown that the quality of indoor environments can affect the health, safety, and productivity of the people who occupy them. Buildings are also resource intensive, accounting for 40 percent of primary energy use in the United States, 12 percent of water consumption, and 60 percent of all non-industrial waste. The processes for producing electricity at power plants and delivering it for use in buildings account for 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. federal government manages approximately 429,000 buildings of many types with a total square footage of 3.34 billion worldwide, of which about 80 percent is owned space. More than 30 individual departments and agencies are responsible for managing these buildings. The characteristics of each agency's portfolio of facilities are determined by its mission and its programs. In 2010, GSA's Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings asked the National Academies to appoint an ad hoc committee of experts to conduct a public workshop and prepare a report that identified strategies and approaches for achieving a range of objectives associated with high-performance green federal buildings. Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities identifies examples of important initiatives taking place and available resources. The report explores how these examples could be used to help make sustainability the preferred choice at all levels of decision making. Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities can serve as a valuable guide federal agencies with differing missions, types of facilities, and operating procedures.

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0309211689

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Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management Through 2020

Transformational Strategies

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Committee on Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management, 2005-2020

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Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management Through 2020

Transformational Strategies

The U.S. government is faced with growing challenges to managing its facilities and infrastructure. A number of factors such as shrinking budgets, an aging workforce, and increasing costs demand new approaches to federal facilities management. The Federal Facilities Council of the NRC has sponsored a number of studies looking at ways to meet these challenges. This fourth study focuses on the people and skills that will needed to manage federal facilities in the next decade and beyond. The book presents a discussion of the current context of facilities management; an analysis of the forces affecting federal facilities asset management; an assessment of core competencies for federal facilities management; a comprehensive strategy for workforce development; and recommendations for implementing that strategy.

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0309114004

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Predicting Outcomes of Investments in Maintenance and Repair of Federal Facilities

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Committee on Predicting Outcomes of Investments in Maintenance and Repair for Federal Facilities

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Predicting Outcomes of Investments in Maintenance and Repair of Federal Facilities

The deteriorating condition of federal facilities poses economic, safety, operational, and environmental risks to the federal government, to the achievement of the missions of federal agencies, and to the achievement of public policy goals. Primary factors underlying this deterioration are the age of federal facilities-about half are at least 50 years old-and decades of inadequate investment for their maintenance and repair. These issues are not new and there are no quick fixes. However, the current operating environment provides both the impetus and the opportunity to place investments in federal facilities' maintenance and repair on a new, more sustainable course for the 21st Century. Despite the magnitude of investments, funding for the maintenance and repair of federal facilities has been inadequate for many years, and myriad projects have been deferred. Predicting Outcomes of Investments in Maintenance and Repair of Federal Facilities identifies processes and practices for transforming the current portfolio of federal facilities into one that is more economically, physically, and environmentally sustainable. This report addresses ways to predict or quantify the outcomes that can be expected from a given level of maintenance and repair investments in federal facilities or facilities' systems, and what strategies, measures, and data should be in place to determine the actual outcomes of facilities maintenance and repair investments.

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0309221862

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Deferred Maintenance Reporting for Federal Facilities

Meeting the Requirements of Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board Standard Number 6, as Amended

By: Federal Facilities Council,Federal Facilities Council Standing Committee on Operations and Maintenance

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Deferred Maintenance Reporting for Federal Facilities

Meeting the Requirements of Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board Standard Number 6, as Amended

By: Federal Facilities Council,Federal Facilities Council Standing Committee on Operations and Maintenance

In 1996 the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) 1 enacted Standard Number 6, Accounting for Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E), the first government-wide initiative requiring federal agencies to report dollar amounts of deferred maintenance annually. The FASAB has identified four overall objectives in federal financial reporting: budgetary integrity, operating performance, stewardship, and systems and control. FASAB Standard Number 6, as amended, focuses on operating performance and stewardship. The FFC Standing Committee on Operations and Maintenance has prepared this report to identify potential issues that should be considered in any future amendments to the standard and to suggest approaches for resolving them. The committee's intent is to assist the CFO Council, federal agencies, the FASAB, and others as they consider how best to meet the objectives of federal financial reporting for facilities.

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Key Performance Indicators for Federal Facilities Portfolios

Federal Facilities Council Technical Report Number 147

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Federal Facilities Council,Committee on Performance Indicators for Federal Real Property Asset Management,Federal Facilities Council Ad Hoc,Jocelyn S. Davis,John H. Cable

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Key Performance Indicators for Federal Facilities Portfolios

Federal Facilities Council Technical Report Number 147

More than 30 federal departments and agencies with a wide range of missions and programs manage large inventories of facilities, also called portfolios. These portfolios range in size from a few hundred to more than a hundred thousand individual structures, buildings, and their supporting infrastructure. They are diverse in terms of facility types, mix of types, and geographic dispersal. For federal senior executives, facilities portfolio-related decisions revolve around the allocation of resources (staff, funding, time) for acquisition, renovation, operation, repair, and disposition of facilities. To make informed decisions, senior executives require information that will allow them to answer such questions as: What facilities do we have? What condition are they in? What facilities are needed to support the organization's missions? This study lays out a framework for developing and evaluating trends in facilities portfolio conditions, investments, and costs and identifies a set of key indicators that can be used to track performance over time. Some of the indicators are currently in use in some federal agencies; others will need to be developed.

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Investments in Federal Facilities

Asset Management Strategies for the 21st Century

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Committee on Business Strategies for Public Capital Investment

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Investments in Federal Facilities

Asset Management Strategies for the 21st Century

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Committee on Business Strategies for Public Capital Investment

Facilities now owned by the Federal Government are valued at over $300 billion. It also spends over $25 billion per year for acquisition, renovation, and upkeep. Despite the size of these sums, there is a growing litany of problems with federal facilities that continues to put a drain on the federal budget and compromise the effectiveness of federal services. To examine ways to address these problems, the sponsoring agencies of the Federal Facilities Council (FFC) asked the National Research Council (NRC) to develop guidelines for making improved decisions about investment in and renewal, maintenance, and replacement of federal facilities. This report provides the result of that assessment. It presents a review of both public and private practices used to support such decision making and identifies appropriate objectives, practices, and performance measures. The report presents a series of recommendations designed to assist federal agencies and departments improve management of and investment decision making for their facilities.

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Stewardship of Federal Facilities

Stewardship of Federal Facilities

Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Process

Adding Value to the Facility Acquisition Process

Capabilities for the Future

Capabilities for the Future

Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities

Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities

Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management Through 2020

Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management Through 2020

Predicting Outcomes of Investments in Maintenance and Repair of Federal Facilities

Predicting Outcomes of Investments in Maintenance and Repair of Federal Facilities

Deferred Maintenance Reporting for Federal Facilities

Deferred Maintenance Reporting for Federal Facilities

Key Performance Indicators for Federal Facilities Portfolios

Key Performance Indicators for Federal Facilities Portfolios

Investments in Federal Facilities

Investments in Federal Facilities

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