Facilities: Volume 17 Issue 12/13

Subjects:

Table of contents

Modelling total energy costs of sport centres

A.H. Boussabaine, R.J. Kirkham, R.J. Grew

Providing and maintaining safe and comfortable conditions in sport centres raises many issues, particularly cost. The paper gives an overview of the factors associated with sport…

1416

An integrated resource management view of facilities management

Danny Shiem‐Shin Then

“Facilities management” (FM) has been described as a hybrid management discipline that combines people, property and process management expertise to provide vital services in…

6898

Facilities management development in Hong Kong

D.W. Lomas

The area of facilities management (FM) has grown significantly in recent years. The principles of FM were initially developed in the United States and then exported world‐wide…

2443

The perception of lighting quality in a non‐uniformly lit office environment

M.S. Wright, S.L. Hill, G.K. Cook, K.T. Bright

This paper presents the views of 16 fully sighted people who carried out typical office tasks under eight different lighting systems. This work is taken from a much larger study…

1173

A new definition of intelligent buildings for Asia

Albert T.P. So, Alvin C.W. Wong, K‐c. Wong

Intelligent building (IB) is the future of our building industry. All new commercial buildings and probably luxurious domestic buildings are designed with a common goal – to…

3558

The BOOT approach to energy infrastructure management: a means to optimise the return from facilities

John Chu

This paper sets out the major facets of the Build‐Own‐Operate‐Transfer (BOOT) approach of procuring and managing energy‐related assets. The relative merits between BOOT and other…

1244
39
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