Facilities: Volume 17 Issue 1/2

Linking FM practice and research

This paper looks at the practical opportunities for collaboration between facilities management (FM) practice and research. It provides a framework for mapping the basic origins…

Flexible working: organisational liberation or individual strait‐jacket?

This paper addresses the practice‐derived concept of “flexible working” in order to challenge the lack of critical thinking in such facilities management (FM) research and…

Facilities management: the wider implications of managing change

This paper looks at facilities management (FM) in the wider context of the social, economic and political changes that are taking place at the end of the twentieth century. It…

The creation of a management‐by‐variance tool for facilities management performance assessment

The need to establish key performance indicators for facilities management (FM) is well recognised. However, difficulties in establishing universally‐accepted definitions of the…

Effects of facilities on Hong Kong supermarkets

Many factors can have an effect on the patronage turnover of retail stores. While there is a concentration on the more obvious aspects such as demography and site location, this…

Water conservation project

RMS ionization system in North American building and cooling towers

Internet editorial

Facilities Management Legal Update Seminar

Building maintenance and refurbishment

Teleworking today

Editorial