Facilities: Volume 31 Issue 11/12

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Learning from lean management – going beyond input‐output thinking

Tuuli Jylhä, Seppo Junnila

The aim of the research is to address why facility management (FM) processes do not support customer value creation.

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Supporting and impeding factors for partnering in construction: a China study

Jian Zuo, Albert P.C. Chan, Zhen‐Yu Zhao, George Zillante, Bo Xia

Partnering has drawn attention from both academics and practitioners in the construction industry in the context of construction and facilities management. The past decades have…

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The quality and value of higher education facilities: a comparative study

Christos Vidalakis, Ming Sun, Aspasia Papa

The aim of the paper is to explore the relationship between the quality and value of higher education facilities through comparing the views of different user groups and…

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Occupant stimulus response workplace productivity and the vexed question of measurement

Brian Purdey

The purpose of this paper to develop a better understanding of the behavioural challenges in workplace performance evaluation and how the issues raised regarding validity and…

The perceptions of contractor's and landlord's representatives in the refurbishment of tower blocks

Nicholas Chileshe, Jamal M. Khatib, Mohamed Farah

The first paper, entitled “The perception of tenants in the refurbishment of tower blocks” (Facilities, Vol. 31, No. 3/4), argued that refurbishment was the best option that a…

Evaluation for the conservation of historic buildings: Differences between the laymen, professionals and policy makers

Esther H.K. Yung, Edwin H.W. Chan

This study aims to examine whether there are significant differences between laymen's, professionals' and policy makers' evaluations of the conservation of historic buildings.

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ISSN:

0263-2772

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr Joseph Lai
  • Dr Sarel Lavy