Facilities: Volume 20 Issue 7/8

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The application of facilities management expertise to the hotel renovation process

Ahmed Hassanien, Erwin Losekoot

This paper considers the renovation of hotels in the context of facilities management. It evaluates a study carried out in Egypt into the attitudes of hotel general managers about…

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FM application in the hospitality sector

M.I. Okoroh, C. Jones, B.D. Ilozor

When applied to hotels, the terms “facilities management” and “hotel management” are in many ways synonymous. Certainly effective management of the physical aspects in the hotel…

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Improving the business process of reactive maintenance projects

Kherun Nita Ali, Ming Sun, Gary Petley, Peter Barrett

This paper examines the business process of reactive maintenance projects and proposes an improvement through information technology. Among the major problems that have been…

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A computer simulation model of emergency egress for space planners

S.M. Lo, Z. Fang, G.S. Zhi, K.K. Yuen

The spatial design of a building affects the movement of occupants. In complex buildings with a large population, such as places of assembly, the movement of people towards the…

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Disseminating information technology at the kominkan: a strategy for facilities management

Yoko Sone, Heihachi Asano, Takashi Uchida

This paper proposes a facilities management strategy for the dissemination of information technology at the kominkan (community center), the main public facility for community…

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Intelligent office building performance evaluation

Wolfgang F.E. Preiser, Ulrich Schramm

Outlines building evaluation methodology and instruments, which will facilitate comparative, cross‐cultural evaluation of the performance of a building type which is common…

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Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/02632770210426693. When citing the…

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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