Facilities: Volume 39 Issue 13/14

Recognizing the effective factors in managing fire incidents to reduce the collateral damages and casualties

Meysam Soltaninejad, Amir Faraji, Esmatullah Noorzai

The purpose of this study is to introduce and evaluate the effect of critical success factors (CSF) in rescue operations in burning buildings by calculating the partial least…

Design stage evaluation tools for residential dementia care environments

Martin Quirke, Michael J. Ostwald, Richard Fleming, Mark Taylor, Anthony Williams

The independence and well-being of people with dementia can be significantly influenced by the design of the physical environments around them. Several assessment tools exist to…

Emerging safety risks from public facilities: a field study for ablution spaces in mosques

In-Ju Kim, Salaheddine Bendak

Muslims require an exclusive ablution space for preparing for daily prayers in mosques. Ablution floors seem to entail design challenges since they are often encountered in…

Offering a preventive solution to defects in commercial building facility system using BIM

Narges Eskandari, Esmatullah Noorzai

Commercial building facility systems are costly, and due to the complexity of operation and maintenance (O&M), some failures can cause irreversible expensive damage. Currently…

Analytic evaluation of facilities performance from the user perspective: case study on a badminton hall

Wenchao Shi, Joseph H.K. Lai, C.K. Chau, Philip Wong, David Edwards

The purpose of this study is to identify key performance indicators (KPIs) for badminton halls and, through a case study, illustrate how the facilities performance of a university…

The effect of physical work environment on creativity among artists’ residencies

Ghasem Motalebi, Avishan Parvaneh

The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of the physical environment characteristics on artists’ creativity.