Facilities: Volume 25 Issue 13/14

Subjects:

Table of contents - Special Issue: Product and process modelling in facilities management

Guest Editors: Dr Edward Finch

Understanding the context for best practice facilities management from the client's perspective

Brian Atkin, Bo‐Christer Björk

The paper has the purpose of demonstrating that (business) process modelling can be used to portray facilities management as a hierarchical set of activities which combine to…

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Simulation application for resource allocation in facility management processes in hospitals

Vishal Sharma, Jochen Abel, Mohamed Al‐Hussein, Kunibert Lennerts, Uwe Pfründer

The increasing percentage of aging population (longer life expectancy) and the changing financial policies in the healthcare systems put governments under pressure to optimize its…

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Using the semantic web for project information management

D. Ruikar, C.J. Anumba, A. Duke, P.M. Carrillo, N.M. Bouchlaghem

This paper has the purpose of exploring the use of the semantic web to support project information management. It aims to discuss the development of a semantic web based framework…

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A new performance‐based process model for built asset maintenance

Keith Jones, Mark Sharp

This paper aims to draw attention to the weakness inherent in the current theoretical model underpinning built asset maintenance and to propose a new performance based model that…

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Valuation of AW: modeling the impacts of distractions

Kathy O. Roper, Parminder Juneja

Auditory and visual distractions originating in the workspace have been shown to negatively impact the performance of knowledge workers on complex tasks. The paper aims to…

A qualitative approach to exploring adaptive re‐use processes

Esra Kurul

The paper aims to report on the development of a process mapping approach to explore adaptive re‐use processes.

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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