Facilities: Volume 18 Issue 10/11/12

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Table of contents

Avoiding the usual suspects

Bill Loch

FM needs to rediscover its strategic purpose. Non‐core has come to mean non‐strategic, non‐relevant and non‐important. FM is in danger of becoming a commodity function or service…

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Design and facilities management in a time of change

Francis Duffy

The development of facilities management over the last 20 years is reviewed. A parallel and similarly retrospective view is taken of developments in office design. There is some…

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Work transformation: integrating people, space and technology

Ken Robertson

Introduces the concept of work transformation, the integration of people, space and technology with a direct focus on delivering business value both operationally and…

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Implications for facility management of the changing business climate

Barry Varcoe

Draws on the results from a survey of real estate practices to identify changing trends in the property industry. This is then used as a basis for identifying and exploring how…

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Chasing the mirage: managing facilities in a virtual world

Bob Grimshaw, George Cairns

This paper is a consolidation of the keynote address given to the BIFM Annual Conference and Research Forum held at the University of Warwick in September 1999 in which the…

Preparing for an uncertain future

Wes McGregor

The world of business is changing as never before. Faced with unrelenting pressures to achieve and maintain a competitive position, businesses are developing new work processes…

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Integrated portfolio strategies for dynamic organizations

Franklin Becker

Technology, mergers and acquisitions, changing workforce demographics, constantly shifting organizational strategies, new ways of working, global competition – all of these…

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Achieving strategic facilities management through strong relationships

Peter Barrett

Facilities management tends to be technically orientated and reactive. However, the information revolution is having massive impacts in terms of where, when and how people work…

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Identifying priority issues in facilities management benchmarking

Gavin McDougall, John Hinks

Considers the state of benchmarking in facilities management and finds that most academic and practice literature is mainly concerned with measurement techniques, and a formal…

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Professional facilities management in public sector organisations

Liz Clark, David Rees

The authors refer to their research into the role of facilities management (FM) within the National Health Service and local government in England and Wales. They compare the…

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Fire safety systems – interaction and integration

Eric W. Marchant

Fire safety is a performance characteristic of buildings. The technological functions of fire safety systems interact with the systems that are necessary for other environmental…

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IT: useful tool or nemesis for facilities management?

John Swift

History since the Industrial Revolution shows an accelerating trend of change driven by changes in enabling technologies. Such changes give rise to a Darwinian evolution in…

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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