Facilities: Volume 16 Issue 11

Subjects:

Table of contents

Housing stock: the facilities for future development

Roode Liias

As societies become aware that their future will be directed and shaped more and more by resource and environmental constraints, it is relevant for any country to carry out…

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Government assistance program in the housing sector in Lithuania

M. Burinskienë

The centralised system of apartment buildings was destroyed and replaced by a market‐type procedure of acquiring dwellings as private property. Privatisation started in Lithuania…

1054

Homeowners’ associations ‐ a new framework for housing in Lithuania

Kasper Roerup

The vast privatisation of Lithuanian housing has not been paralleled by the necessary institutional changes. The establishment of Homeowners Associations (HOAs) is an important…

Application of information technology to housing management

Brian Fine

This paper discusses experience gained in using IT in managing housing directly by local authorities and in tenant‐managed estates. Many tenant‐managed estates are run more…

603

Community participation in facility management

A.B. Ngowi, P.C. Mselle

By involving the beneficiaries of a facility such as housing or an irrigation scheme, at the various stages of the project, it is possible to build their capacity in relation to…

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Sustainable development in the practice of building resources renovation

A. Sobotka, D.P. Wyatt

The paper consists of two parts: the first contains an introduction to building technology of what is known as “sustainable development”, and the second part seeks to apply the…

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Management and modernization of housing facilities: specific features of central and eastern European countries

B. Melnikas

Housing and housing facilities are defined as the object of management science. Some specific features of modernizing housing and housing facilities in Lithuania and other…

989

Raising the efficiency of the building lifetime with special emphasis on maintenance

E. Zavadskas, A. Kaklauskas, E. Bejder

The problems of creating buildings with efficient lifetime has been analysed with special emphasis on their maintenance. First, the principles of a complex analysis, functional…

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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