Facilities: Volume 14 Issue 10/11

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Table of contents

Facility layout overview: towards competitive advantage

Alberto G. Canen, Geoff H. Williamson

Facility layout is a classical industrial/production engineering problem. Good layout will help any company to improve its business performance. Presents a general overview of the…

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Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/02637479610106729. When citing the…

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A navigable walkthrough simulator for built environment education: Archiwalk

Edward Finch, Robert D. Wing

Describes the development of a computer‐based walkthrough system produced from video‐still images. The navigable simulator, Archiwalk, is designed to familiarize students in built…

Experiences of ISO 9000 with small firms in building services

M.A. Atherton, P. Austin

Describes an approach for overcoming some of the barriers to achieving ISO 9000 faced by small firms in the building services sector. Draws on the experiences of several firms to…

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Private/public partnerships to ensure building code compliance

James Loesch, David Hammerman

Relates how partnering between public and private participants can transform the process of obtaining construction permits and ensuring building code compliance into a…

Developing and using a facilities planning guide

Guy Thatcher, Jim Graham

The Canadian federal department of Human Resources Development Canada required a Facilities Planning Guide to support the re‐engineered national Income Security Program. The…

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Facilities performance measurement

Barry J. Varcoe

States that performance measurement is a technique often used throughout organizations, particularly in manufacturing. However, it is not used that frequently, or particularly…

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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