Facilities: Volume 8 Issue 8

Subjects:

Table of contents

The essence of facilities management

Tony Thomson

Argues that the facilities management is really a field dedicatedto facility planning – where building design meets businessobjectives. Considers reasons for the lack of clarity…

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PC protection

Jennifer O′Neill

Reports briefly on the issue of PC equipment/hardware and datasecurity and how it should be handled by facilities managers.

Control of hazardous substances

Joanna Eley

Describes a project in which the construction of a new building waspainstakingly monitored for the presence of hazardous materials.Considers the issue of quality control and the…

The shrinking HQ: can cost cutting allow for innovation?

Andrew Laing

Asks what happens to company headquarters when an organisationdecides to downsize its operations. Examines new organisationalimperatives and the reasons for restructuring 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