Facilities Management Administrator
Why the FMA®?
The FMA® designation program positions facility managers as a critical strategic contributors within your organization by helping you to create a productive work environment and handle tenant issues such as daily operations, maintenance, comfort, and safety.
What Will I Learn?
In the FMA® program, you’ll learn to manage facilities to best support tenants and staff while meeting your organization’s overall objectives. This program covers everything from planning and project management to environmental health and worker safety. In addition, it provides the information needed to minimize maintenance costs and properly manage other timely issues.
Who Should Enrol?
Assistant facility managers, facility managers, and those responsible for daily operations and maintenance.
Required Courses
Environmental Health & Safety Issues
Ethics is Good Business®, Short Course
Facilities Planning & Project Management
Fundamentals of Facilities Management
Design, Operation & Maintenance, II
Elective Courses (choose two)
Asset Management
Managing the Organization
Real Estate Investment & Finance
Those enroling in the designation after July 1, 2013 will be required to follow the new requirements; however, if you enroled prior to July 2013, contact our office to confirm the course requirements.
The Capstone Experience
The Capstone Experience program reduces the administrative hurdle of completing the complex Experience Form by only requiring employment history verification. To maintain the integrity of BOMI’s programming, the Capstone Experience includes a culminating FMA® Capstone Exam once all FMA® course requirements are complete.
The FMA® Capstone Exam includes:
- Two-hour, 100-question multiple choice exam
- Proctored exam to be taken at Pearson VUE
- Questions are application-based, using scenarios that rely on the learners’ three years of experience in commercial property and facility management
- Optional Online Self-Paced Capstone Exam prep courses are available for the FMA®
Experience Requirement
You can begin pursuing your FMA® at any time during your career. Before you are awarded your FMA® Designation, you are required to demonstrate three years of verifiable facilities management experience. The criteria are outlined in the FMA® Capstone Experience Form. This form may be submitted at any time following enrolment.
Prior Education
For those who have prior education in an area that overlaps with the FMA®, you may be eligible to receive credit for one or more courses. To review the requirements, please refer to the Administrative Competency Chart, which outlines what is eligible and how you go about applying to get credit for a course.
Register Today
- Courses may be taken in any order.
- Choose the flexible course delivery option that works best for you – online self-paced, collaborative virtual learning, accelerated review or classroom setting, where applicable.
- Enrol in the FMA® Designation and/or register for a class using the methods below:
