Facilities: Volume 16 Issue 5/6

Benchmarking metrics used in UK facilities management

This is the second of two papers looking at the use of benchmarking in the UK (the preceding paper appeared in the previous issue of Facilities). It looks specifically at the…

Intruder detectors: myths of our time

This article looks at the popular myths surrounding intruder detectors and false alarms. What the user should be looking for in a detector to reduce the number of false alarms and…

Alternative workplace strategies in Hong Kong

Based on the results of a questionnaire survey among facility management professionals, the paper reviews current and future applications for alternative workplace strategies…

Evaluating user satisfaction: case studies in Australasia

This paper briefly describes problems in the methodology of a 1994 World Health Organisation Study of Building Health in office workers. The advantages of the Works Canada Office…

Town council management in Singapore

Town councils are a new concept, first established in 1988 to ensure the proper management and maintenance of public housing developments in Singapore. Some seven years have…

Design effects of retail floor space in Hong Kong

This paper considers the effects of the shape of supermarket retail floor space on patronage turnover in Hong Kong. From a sample of stores it was observed that many possessed…

Death of construction courses!

European Index on comparative office costs

Innovation in research

Building life costs predicted by BSI Handbook

Software to Support ASTM E 1765: Standard Practice for Applying Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Multiattribute Decision Analysis of Investments Related to Buildings and Building Systems

Health and safety on the Internet

Diary

Architects offered new IT virtual reality technique

Millennium panic

Editorial

Launch of listed buildings information service

Construction dinosaurs' days are numbered

BMI Building Maintenance Price Book 1998

Revised guidance on seating at work