Facilities: Volume 18 Issue 3/4

Subjects:

Table of contents

Four competing futures for facility management

Bev Nutt

Four generic FM “trails” to the future are explored. These trails follow the four types of resource that are basic to the FM function; the financial resource trail (business), the…

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Facility management: future opportunities, scope and impact

Oliver Jones

UK’s PFI (Private Finance Initiative) in the public sector has introduced radical innovations in the ways that new facilities and ongoing support services are financed…

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The future of workspace management

Wes McGregor

In the near future work will no longer be a place, but a range of activities that can be conducted virtually anywhere and at any time. This paper gives a comprehensive view of the…

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Corporate commuter management: the wider perspective for facilities management

Ashley Dabson

This paper summarises Compaq’s corporate commuter management experience in facilitating the transport of its human resource to its site at Worton Grange in Reading, UK. This edge…

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Property portfolio dynamics: the flexible management of inflexible assets

Virginia Gibson

Resource flexibility is increasingly vital to meet the ever changing needs of organisations. Property is, by its nature, a highly inflexible resource. It needs to become not only…

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Adaptability potentials for buildings and infrastructure in sustainable cities

David Kincaid

A significant shift in the demand for buildings is under way due to IT innovations, new working practices and tightening of the environmental agenda. This is both reducing the…

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Accommodating future business intelligence: new work‐space and work‐time challenges for management and design

Stephen Bradley, Geoff Woodling

This paper presents a synoptic account of the emerging knowledge‐based forms of intelligent working and the new approaches to the management of space and time, so that groups…

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Intellectual capital: future competitive advantage for facility management

Peter McLennan

In the office sector, facility management serves two divergent concerns: the needs of the customer as the facility owner/investor and the needs of the customer as the facility…

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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