INTERNATIONAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) is a member-centric, professional association that exists to guide and develop facility management professionals by providing exceptional services, products, resources and opportunities. IFMA headquarters is located in Houston, Texas.
IFMA was founded in October 1980 by a group of 40 people led by David Armstrong of the Facility Management Institute (FMI) in Ann Arbor, Michigan as the National Facility Management Association (NFMA), a not-for-profit incorporated association. The name was changed to IFMA in 1982 due to a growing Canadian contingency. As of 2012, IFMA has more than 22,600 members in 127 chapters, 15 councils and six communities of practice in 78 countries worldwide.
