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"Will Responsibility Centered Management Affect Facility Renewal?"
Author: Adams, Matthew C.
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: September/October 1997

Facility Asset Management column.  Discusses Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) and its ramifications for facilites management.  RCM is the system that moves the decision authority for many if not most of an institution's resources and cash flow down to the dean and director level. Under RCM, the plant staff must take its "traveling" facility reinvestment program to each and every resource manager, who must be educated about long-term facility asset care.  Describes the challenges of this approach, particularly at small colleges.


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