Facilities: Volume 14 Issue 1/2

Subjects:

Table of contents

Decision making in the provision of security services

Viktor Baron, Nigel van Zwanenberg

Examines the processes used to make decisions about security operations within universities, analysing crime and financial data obtained from a sample of 21 UK universities, the…

843

Proving the benefits ‐ justifying the costs of intelligent systems

Eric Loe

Examines some of the economic characteristics which arise when an intelligent building investment is made, by looking at the issues of change as businesses seek greater…

1053

Ensuring value for money in FM contract services

Fari Akhlaghi

During 1994‐1995, work carried out by the author as Head of Unit for Facilities Management Research at Sheffield Hallam University has opened the way for the creation of a new…

2349

Recent developments in office design

Otto E. Stallworth, Brian H. Kleiner

Early in this century, extensive research was carried out regarding the worker in the industrial setting with the physical environment as the focus. In the 1930s, the focus became…

3945

Productive use of IT in support of FM solutions

Terry Wagstaff

Drawing on the author’s personal experience within the UK National Health Service, outlines at the macro level what information is needed, and why, in facilities management…

329

Minimum data sets ‐ finding the balance in benchmarking

Danny Shiem‐Shin Then

Aims to raise awareness of the cost premiums involved in data collection. Examines benchmarking, its goals and appropriate support, and explains the process of benchmarking…

720

Grant‐maintained schools: ways for improvement and future development

G. Shabha, Karen Orr

Examines the main benefits and pitfalls of facilities management as applied to grant‐maintained schools (GMS) by assessing its implications for selected school buildings…

426
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