Facilities: Volume 16 Issue 5/6

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Table of contents

Benchmarking metrics used in UK facilities management

Keith Massheder, Edward Finch

This is the second of two papers looking at the use of benchmarking in the UK (the preceding paper appeared in the previous issue of Facilities). It looks specifically at the…

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Intruder detectors: myths of our time

John Chantry

This article looks at the popular myths surrounding intruder detectors and false alarms. What the user should be looking for in a detector to reduce the number of false alarms and…

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Alternative workplace strategies in Hong Kong

John D. Gilleard, David R. Rees

Based on the results of a questionnaire survey among facility management professionals, the paper reviews current and future applications for alternative workplace strategies…

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Evaluating user satisfaction: case studies in Australasia

David Leifer

This paper briefly describes problems in the methodology of a 1994 World Health Organisation Study of Building Health in office workers. The advantages of the Works Canada Office…

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Town council management in Singapore

Lan Yuan Lim

Town councils are a new concept, first established in 1988 to ensure the proper management and maintenance of public housing developments in Singapore. Some seven years have…

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Design effects of retail floor space in Hong Kong

Graeme Baldwin

This paper considers the effects of the shape of supermarket retail floor space on patronage turnover in Hong Kong. From a sample of stores it was observed that many possessed…

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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