Facility management is logical outgrowth of competitive market in which facility design is a vital element. Facility layout is a subclass concerned with the optimal spatial arrangement of facilities such as plants, machines, equipment, services etc., for achieving certain objectives of an organization, aiming at minimization of material handling cost (quantitative terms based on flow of material i.e. rate of material movement) and maximization of total closeness rating 1 . More recently the term facility design has come to describe the process of planning physical equipment, human being and structures into efficient system designed to furnish services or manufactured goods.