Strategic Directions in Real Property

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Strategic Directions in Real Property

• Paul Bosco, PE, PMP, LEED-AP
• Director, Office of Engineering and Construction
  Management

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Drivers

• The Secretary's Priorities
• Recovery Act
• Move at Light Speed
• Better management data better decision-making
• New Deputy Secretary confirmed stay tuned
• Executive Orders
• EO 13327 - Real Property Asset Management
• EO 13423 Sustainability
• Carbon Footprint Reduction??
• The Federal Real Property Council
• GAO High Risk Series

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What We Can Expect

• Focus on GAO findings
• Excess real property
• Deteriorated facilities
• Reliance on costly leasing
• Unreliable data
• Increasing emphasis on data quality
• Weve seen the last of the PMA in its present
  form, BUT
• Real property management will remain on the
  Administrations radar

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What We Can Expect

• Greater transparency of operations
• Monthly reporting?
• Sustainability and carbon footprint reduction
• Rightsizing the federal facilities portfolio

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Breaking the Paradigm

• Assimilation of sustainability and carbon
  awareness into the facilities culture
• Ex. ADA is now accepted without question
• Moving beyond one for one
• Develop requirements models
• Figure out what we really need
• Explore non-traditional workspace models
• Capital One case study

The best way to make the inventory more
sustainable is to reduce its size
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OECM Initiatives

• RPAM update
• Continue to document the accuracy of FIMS data
  through the validation process
• Cited by OMB as a best practice
• Right size our facilities portfolio and improve
  its condition
• Ensuring the competency of federal facilities
  managers
• Short term goal be the first federal agency
  removed from the GAO High Risk List for real
  property