Facility Mangement for Planning Administration

Abstract

Facility Management (FM) has received high attention since after Construction Workshop, Ministerial Conference on Social Capital, recommended FM as appropriate method to reform the management of public facilities in Japan, in July 2006. This article aims to describe the status of FM in Japan, trend of public facilities, the role of FM to reform of public facilities. In addition, fundamental changes in strategy and planning for facilities will be overviewed among three stages during 1950 through 2050, dividing into growing period, stable period and declining period of population.