Journal of Facilities Management: Volume 2 Issue 2

Best practices in real property management in state governments

Andrea Wohlfeld Kuhn

The US General Services Administration (GSA) sought to identify innovative and best practices in real property management at the state level, with the intent that sharing these…

Controlled transparency in workplace design: Balancing visual and acoustic interaction in office environments

Pierre Chigot

Workspace is no longer defined by opaque surfaces. Transparency, through the extensive use of glazed facades andpartitions, is a common ingredient in today’s office buildings. In…

The impact of minimising specifications and management at the University of Hawaii

Dean Kashiwagi, Darshit Parmar, John Savicky

The University of Hawaii was searching for modifications to their construction delivery process that would increase the value and performance of construction and the efficiency of…

The future of work: Changing patterns of workforce management and their impact on the workplace

James Ware, Charles Grantham

This paper reports on a year‐long research project undertaken by the authors and a group of sponsoring corporations to explore the future of work and thereby the workplace…

Tracing workplace knowledge in ‘network service organisations’

Antti Tuomela

Centralised workplace and decentralised facilities management organisations combine several interacting functions. The purpose of this paper is to examine the workplace service…

Enterprise programme management: Connecting strategic planning to project delivery

Shelley Gaddie

Companies today face many conflicting priorities in remaining competitive. Some of the challenges include leading company staff in thinking bigger, operating in direct…

Reducing health care costs through optimised facility management‐related processes

Kunibert Lennerts, Jochen Abel, Uwe Pfründer, Vishal Sharma

The German health care system is in dire straits financially. The costs of stationary patient care in hospitals are prohibitive. Currently, 30 per cent of hospital costs are a…