Facilities: Volume 10 Issue 6

Subjects:

Table of contents

A Really New Office Furniture System

Walter B. Kleeman

Describes a number of innovative products exhibited at the annualWestweek Show at the Pacific Design Centre in Los Angeles. Gives detailsof an easily moved or reconfigured system…

Open‐plan Offices: Kill or Cure?

Adrian Leaman

Describes how the communicational and economies‐of‐scale advantagesof open‐plan offices are lost when working groups have to endureuncomfortable and uncontrollable environments…

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Profits from Design: How Do We Measure Success?

Jane Bell

Examines the recent work of three authors, gives examples ofprojects in organizations and quotes facilities managers, all to showthat office design improvements, made with the…

Out‐sourcing Security

Andy Gray

Criticizes low standards of personnel selection, training and payand performance limitations in the security industry. Disavows thepopular misconception that such services are…

The Effects of Buildings on Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Adrian Leaman

The above graph shows how office buildings affect carbon dioxide emissions. Data are in kilograms of carbon dioxide per square metre of treated area (usually the heated area) per…

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Cover of Facilities

ISSN:

0263-2772

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr Joseph Lai
  • Dr Sarel Lavy