Facilities: Volume 20 Issue 3/4

Accommodation functionality assessment in office buildings

Maintenance and investments in buildings should be based on a view of the desired level of function fulfilment of individual buildings and the building stock. In accommodation…

Developing an accessibility appraisal model for the external environments of housing estates

Based on research carried out on a mature estate in South Belfast, Northern Ireland, this paper investigates the obstacles to accessibility in order to produce an appraisal model…

Appropriate workplace strategies in Hong Kong

This paper first reviews the drivers to adopt alternative workplace strategies in offices with an emphasis on the need to integrate IT. A case study reviews the problems of…

The UK private finance initiative and Glasgow schools

This paper considers the extent to which a facilities management (FM) approach has been applied in delivery of a secondary school development programme for Glasgow City Council…

A service delivery approach to measuring facility performance in local government

This paper presents a new method for measuring facility performance that encompasses financial and non‐financial indicators. This method is the outcome of a pilot study conducted…

Implementation of a property standard index

The property standard index model was implemented as an interactive computer application to provide a decision support tool for the Queensland Department of Housing. The model was…

Foresight, space and e‐commerce

This paper reports on a pilot study of three major owners of and/or tenants in retail and office space in South Africa. The study sought to establish: whether or not long‐range…

Industrial and Business Space Development: Implementation and Urban Renewal

Creating the Built Environment: An Introduction to Practicalities of Designing, Constructing and Owning Buildings

Management and Business Skills in the Built Environment

A new Web information resource for facility managers, consultants, contractors and architects

Development monitoring and due diligence

Take the risk out of your health and safety assessments

Diary

Get women into construction by scrapping apprentice age limit, says Overbury

A defining moment for BIAT

Brisbane 2001 symposium of Working Commission W070 on facilities management and asset maintenance

Employers do not investigate accidents properly and so fail to learn the lessons, says new HSE research

What is your company worth?

New office design online Web site launch

HaSARD health check

INCA awards recognise striking design and flexible approach afforded by insulated cladding

Serviced office usage continues to rise during 2001

A cautionary tale for architects (and their Pl insurers!)

New aid for lighting designers

A new approach to performance measurement for facilities management services