Facilities: Volume 36 Issue 11/12

Open-plan office post-occupancy evaluation: inquiring Algerian gender specificity

Abdelkrim Benammar, Karima Anouche, Hasnia Lesgaa, Yamina Hamza Cherif

This paper aims to examine the impact of an open-plan office (OPO) space organisation on a user’s attitude in the Algerian context; more specifically, it investigates gender…

Energy disclosure law in New York City: Building energy performance benchmarking progress

Eunhwa Yang, Yong-Cheol Lee, Qi Li

This paper aims to primarily analyzing the state and pattern of current energy benchmarking progress on commercial buildings since the New York City’s energy disclosure law, Local…

Occupant engagement in the office environment: role assumptions about the building manager

Cristian Roberto Valle, Casper Boks, Thomas Berker

This paper aims to put the building manager (BM) as the professional responsible for implementing occupant engagement initiatives (OEIs) in the work environment and discusses the…

Quantifying demolition fitout waste from Australian office buildings

Perry Forsythe, Alireza Ahmadian Fard Fini

The short life cycle replacement of fitout in modern high-rise office buildings represents an under-researched waste problem. This paper aims to quantify the amount of demolition…

Maintaining performance: Understanding the relationship between facility management and academic performance at K-12 schools in the State of Arizona

Michael A. Beauregard, Steven K. Ayer

The purpose of this paper is to explore the value of K-12 indirect facility maintenance and operation expense spending in Arizona and how the prioritization of work enables…