Facilities: Volume 39 Issue 1/2

Guest editorial

Ming Fung Francis Siu, Joseph Lai, Yi Sun, Michael Anson

Identification, classification and shortlisting of performance indicators for hospital facilities management

Joseph Lai, P.L. Yuen

This paper aims to report on a study that aims to establish a list of systematically classified key performance indicators (KPIs) that are useful for hospital facilities…

BIM-based performance monitoring for smart building management

Ruwini Edirisinghe, Jin Woo

Effective use of post-occupancy evaluation (POE) data – quantitative physical measurements and qualitative occupants’ perceptions are limited due to practical challenges and…

Water pipe failure prediction using AutoML

Cheng Zhang, Zehao Ye

Owing to the consumption of considerable resources in developing physical pipe prediction models and the fact that the statistical models cannot fit the failure records perfectly…

4D BIM models for smart utility relocation management in urban infrastructure projects

Aneetha Vilventhan, Sanu Razin, R. Rajadurai

The relocation of existing underground utilities in urban environments is complex because of the existence of multiple utility agencies being responsible for numerous utilities…

A change in granularity: measure space utilization through smart technologies

Chiara Tagliaro, Yaoyi Zhou, Ying Hua

Workplace space utilization data reveals patterns of space usage, the occupants’ presence and mobility within the office building. Nowadays, emerging technology such as smart…

Data centers as the backbone of smart cities: principal considerations for the study of facility costs and benefits

Patrick T.I. Lam, Daniel Lai, Chi-Kin Leung, Wenjing Yang

As smart cities flourish amidst rapid urbanization and information and communication technology development, the demand for building more and more data centers is rising. This…

Exploring urban facilities management approaches to increase connectivity in smart cities

Carmel Lindkvist, Alenka Temeljotov Salaj, Dave Collins, Svein Bjørberg, Tore Brandstveit Haugen

The purpose of this study is to explore how the discipline facilities management (FM) can be developed in a smart city perspective through considering the current and new FM…

Critical lifting simulation of heavy industrial construction in gaming environment

Christoph Sydora, Zhen Lei, Ming Fung Francis Siu, SangHyeok Han, Ulrich Hermann

Heavy industrial construction often relies on large mobile cranes to erect equipment and pre-assembled modules. Engineering calculations are required for the lifting analysis…