There is a lot going on in the area of asset management that portends dramatic change in our approach to resource management in the near future—and it’s about time.The adjustments that will be required of the A/E/C/FM industry to move it to disciplined asset management systems will force it to develop new workflows and measures of value, just as the gradual embrace of building information modeling has done, but the changes are necessary and the payback will be large. The simple premise is that physical assets should be evaluated, first of all, on their contribution to desired organizational outcomes. Asset