Table of contents
A Really New Office Furniture System
Walter B. KleemanDescribes a number of innovative products exhibited at the annualWestweek Show at the Pacific Design Centre in Los Angeles. Gives detailsof an easily moved or reconfigured system…
Open‐plan Offices: Kill or Cure?
Adrian LeamanDescribes how the communicational and economies‐of‐scale advantagesof open‐plan offices are lost when working groups have to endureuncomfortable and uncontrollable environments…
Profits from Design: How Do We Measure Success?
Jane BellExamines the recent work of three authors, gives examples ofprojects in organizations and quotes facilities managers, all to showthat office design improvements, made with the…
Out‐sourcing Security
Andy GrayCriticizes low standards of personnel selection, training and payand performance limitations in the security industry. Disavows thepopular misconception that such services are…
The Effects of Buildings on Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Adrian LeamanThe above graph shows how office buildings affect carbon dioxide emissions. Data are in kilograms of carbon dioxide per square metre of treated area (usually the heated area) per…
ISSN:
0263-2772e-ISSN:
1758-7131ISSN-L:
0263-2772Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Joseph Lai
- Dr Sarel Lavy