Facilities: Volume 18 Issue 10/11/12

Avoiding the usual suspects

FM needs to rediscover its strategic purpose. Non‐core has come to mean non‐strategic, non‐relevant and non‐important. FM is in danger of becoming a commodity function or service…

Design and facilities management in a time of change

The development of facilities management over the last 20 years is reviewed. A parallel and similarly retrospective view is taken of developments in office design. There is some…

Work transformation: integrating people, space and technology

Introduces the concept of work transformation, the integration of people, space and technology with a direct focus on delivering business value both operationally and…

Implications for facility management of the changing business climate

Draws on the results from a survey of real estate practices to identify changing trends in the property industry. This is then used as a basis for identifying and exploring how…

Chasing the mirage: managing facilities in a virtual world

This paper is a consolidation of the keynote address given to the BIFM Annual Conference and Research Forum held at the University of Warwick in September 1999 in which the…

Preparing for an uncertain future

The world of business is changing as never before. Faced with unrelenting pressures to achieve and maintain a competitive position, businesses are developing new work processes…

Integrated portfolio strategies for dynamic organizations

Technology, mergers and acquisitions, changing workforce demographics, constantly shifting organizational strategies, new ways of working, global competition – all of these…

Achieving strategic facilities management through strong relationships

Facilities management tends to be technically orientated and reactive. However, the information revolution is having massive impacts in terms of where, when and how people work…

Identifying priority issues in facilities management benchmarking

Considers the state of benchmarking in facilities management and finds that most academic and practice literature is mainly concerned with measurement techniques, and a formal…

Professional facilities management in public sector organisations

The authors refer to their research into the role of facilities management (FM) within the National Health Service and local government in England and Wales. They compare the…

Fire safety systems – interaction and integration

Fire safety is a performance characteristic of buildings. The technological functions of fire safety systems interact with the systems that are necessary for other environmental…

IT: useful tool or nemesis for facilities management?

History since the Industrial Revolution shows an accelerating trend of change driven by changes in enabling technologies. Such changes give rise to a Darwinian evolution in…

World's first Digital Congress Network from Philips used in Grand Committee Room, Westminster

Do your premises use excessive fuel?

A unique project in the area of underground civic design in Bratislava

Energy Services announces words of warning

Chancers are

Unique biological sensor technology will revolutionise land pollution monitoring

Internet editorial

Working well together to build safer construction sites

Health charges

New guide available: ignorance of law on emergency signs and lighting could have tragic consequences

CIOB innovation competition winners announced

New dual technology detector can see fire without smoke

Electrical safety: the buck stops with the employer

Four Brindleyplace, Birmingham, scoops top accolades in British Council for Offices Awards 2000

Dedicated information source for facilities professionals

Diary

Sony debuts the world's first portable videoconferencing system

Under-used desk space leads to inflated office costs, says Morgan Lovell

Business strategy – is FM a core concern?

Cut costs by outsourcing business travel

University of Southern California establishes an endowment toward a chair in architecture and a student travel fellowship to honor distinguished Alumnus Jon Ada

Clean-up of pollution is massive world market

Agency steps up drive to minimise waste

HSE wins funding for central incident reporting scheme

New remote monitoring system provides additional security for lone workers

New fire regulations

Training courses in passive fire protection

Kohn Pedersen Fox (London) design Liverpool landmark

French innovation leads to less lightning damage

Office IQ 2000

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