Facilities: Volume 7 Issue 9

Subjects:

Table of contents

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND THE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE

W.A. Southwood

Superconductivity has been around for most of this century. In 1911 Kamerlingh Onnes, a Dutch physicist, discovered that the resistance of mercury to electric current dropped…

SUCCESSFUL STAFF CONSULTATIONS

Adrian Leaman

The workforce of a large British company — surviving at the time on government subsidy (it was the mid‐1970s) — was being consulted over the design of a new warehouse. The session…

VAT AND THE FACILITIES MANAGER

Bernard Williams

The Finance Bill 1989 introduced a totally new concept in taxation — the right of a citizen to elect to tax another without the government having any say in the matter.

CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS DIRECTIVE

Boodle Hatfield

The Construction Products Directive of 21 December 1988 — on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the member states relating to construction…

HEALTHY BUILDINGS AND AIR CONDITIONING

Stephen Edwards, Terry Wyatt

Air‐conditioning installations in buildings have been the focus of much criticism, with many commentators going so far as to propose a causal connection between sick buildings and…

Cover of Facilities

ISSN:

0263-2772

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr Joseph Lai
  • Dr Sarel Lavy