Facilities: Volume 18 Issue 3/4

Four competing futures for facility management

Four generic FM “trails” to the future are explored. These trails follow the four types of resource that are basic to the FM function; the financial resource trail (business), the…

Facility management: future opportunities, scope and impact

UK’s PFI (Private Finance Initiative) in the public sector has introduced radical innovations in the ways that new facilities and ongoing support services are financed…

The future of workspace management

In the near future work will no longer be a place, but a range of activities that can be conducted virtually anywhere and at any time. This paper gives a comprehensive view of the…

Corporate commuter management: the wider perspective for facilities management

This paper summarises Compaq’s corporate commuter management experience in facilitating the transport of its human resource to its site at Worton Grange in Reading, UK. This edge…

Property portfolio dynamics: the flexible management of inflexible assets

Resource flexibility is increasingly vital to meet the ever changing needs of organisations. Property is, by its nature, a highly inflexible resource. It needs to become not only…

Adaptability potentials for buildings and infrastructure in sustainable cities

A significant shift in the demand for buildings is under way due to IT innovations, new working practices and tightening of the environmental agenda. This is both reducing the…

Accommodating future business intelligence: new work‐space and work‐time challenges for management and design

This paper presents a synoptic account of the emerging knowledge‐based forms of intelligent working and the new approaches to the management of space and time, so that groups…

Intellectual capital: future competitive advantage for facility management

In the office sector, facility management serves two divergent concerns: the needs of the customer as the facility owner/investor and the needs of the customer as the facility…

Compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and building regulations

UK commercial property: strengthening economy buoys commercial property

3. Facilities management and ethics

1. Managing design after the 'death of distance'

5. Flexible working and stress: a new challenge for FM

Unnecessary office costs

New generation of serviced offices opens in London

Displacement ventilation solves industrial problem

Professional presentation and conference technology - audio-visual solutions

Power protection for datacentres

Fears of 'millennium timebomb'

Internet editorial

New group will establish interoperable systems for the rail industry

Fitness-in-company

If you're afraid of change, don't look down now!

Confusion over proposed changes to health and safety regulations could cost businesses dearly

The climate's right for Climadesk

Premises owners and occupiers face tougher responsibilities

CIOB furthers commitment to innovation and research

2. Facility management - the agent of environmental responsibility?

UK construction: confidence increasing, new orders also begin to rise

4. Facility futures: providing community services in 2010

6. Fluidity

Flexible workspace design

Study of information flow in organisations

Editorial

Category 5 voice and data cabling system

Lifts and escalators in NHS

British Airways and Philips projects in world's first trials of 'smart label' technology to revolutionise airline baggage handling.

Testing sockets for electrical power

PK Electronics confirms Y2K compliance

Raising cleaning standards in hospitals

Flushed with success

Businesses to benefit from late adoption of IP-based videoconferencing

Plants improve air quality and cut energy consumption, reports international scientific conference

HSC appeals to consumers to 'tell us what you think'