title: The new era of facilities managers.
abstract: The training of the engineer does not end in the classroom. His continuing education includes exposure to daily problems in the rational application of what he and his colleagues learned as students. Here are analysed some of the routine, but often vexing, challenges of the maintenance engineer concerned with the sound and economic management of a physical plant.
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D008283:Maintenance / Q000458:organization & administration*