Facilities: Volume 8 Issue 4

Subjects:

Table of contents

Control of smoking in the workplace: the facilities management implications

Alexi Marmot

Examines the issue of smoking for facilities managers faced withneed to reconcile conflicting demands within the constraints of spaceand building services. Considers the possible…

Productivity and office quality

Adrian Leaman

Argues that the assumption that raising the standard of the workenvironment will automatically raise productivity is not necessarily thecase. Considers the role of management…

Landscape as a creative procedure

Stephen Scrivens

Discusses the role that facilities managers can play in creatingand maintaining building landscape. Argues that the process of creationand maintenance of landscape is as…

Harmonizing EC standards

Roger Parker

Argues that the harmonization of standards in European Communitypublic works and supply contracts will have the effect of openingtenders for contracts, which will in turn allow…

Is full air conditioning really necessary?

Jane Bell

Considers the problem of choosing between either fullyair‐conditioned or naturally ventilated space. Examines the choice takenby Refuge Assurance PLC to operate its headquarters…

Sick building syndrome: an alternative view

Peter McLennan

Offers an interpretation of results of a recent study on sickbuilding syndrome and their implications for facilities managers.Demonstrates the need for facilities managers to take…

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