Facilities: Volume 6 Issue 5

OPTIMISING SPACE USE

Bernard Williams, Robert Harris

Last month we introduced three strategies open to an organisation with a premises problem (Facilities Vol 6/No 4/ April 1986). These were to remain in the same building but…

BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Building management systems — or building automation systems as they are sometimes called — are intelligent systems for controlling and managing buildings by automating those…

BRITOIL & BMS

Britoil's experience with the installation of a Johnson Controls building management system at their new 500 000 sq ft purpose‐built headquarters in Glasgow offers some useful…

IS YOUR FLOOR BOX REALLY NECESSARY?

Bernard Dukes

The ‘biscuit tin’ floor box with its piano‐hinged lid has become the standard vehicle for connecting the cable which is fed below the raised floor to the desk equipment. Sometimes…