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By Heather McLean Wiederhoeft, Editor/Publisher, Facility Management Journal, FM Journal May/June 1995 AS many of us gathered in IFMA's boardroom in the late morning of April 19, we viewed the devastation and destruction in Oklahoma City with complete surprise. Even though we'd all seen the coverage of the bombing of the World Trade Center, seeing a building located in America's heartland - the kind of place you look toward to escape big city violence - being destroyed in such a vicious manner was frightening to all. In the days that followed, we thought often of those who had been directly impacted by the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. In some way, it touched everyone. For some of us it was personal, while, for others, it was both personal and work-related. For every facility professional who is responsible for his or her facility's security and disaster plan, April 19 was a wakeup call. This disastrous event reinforced the need to have a reliable security system and team, and an up-to-date disaster recovery plan. No one on the FMJ's staff could ever have predicted how to close to home the March/April 1995 issue of Facility Management Journal, focusing on Preparing for the Unexpected, would hit. Can you, as a facility practitioner, prepare for and prevent every possible disaster or security breach? The answer to that is no; but if you're responsible for security and disaster planning, it is your job to stay on top of new trends and plan for as many things as you can. There are many new office concepts and trends related to facility management, as you will see in this issue of FMJ. In the future, we'll introduce you to more new ideas in a variety of areas related to facility management. You even may adopt some of these ideas for your facility. But, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, North American facility practitioners now will be asking themselves the same question that facility professionals outside of this continent have been faced with for years before they try a new idea or install a new technology - will this impact my security planning? In the United States, this question is more pertinent than ever before.
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