Facilities: Volume 25 Issue 3/4

A new life: conversion of vacant office buildings into housing

Hilde T. Remøy, Theo J.M. van der Voordt

The vacancy of office buildings leads to financial problems for the owners and social problems for the community, e.g. vandalism, dereliction and deterioration. A solution may be…

Flexibuild – a systematic flexibility management procedure for building projects

Arto Saari, Matti Kruus, Aimo Hämälainen, Juhani Kiiras

Nowadays it is typical that the precise use of a building becomes clear during construction. Current building processes do not support this in Finland. The objective of this study…

The impact of online retail grocery shopping on retail space: a Cape Town case study

Juliette McClatchey, Keith Cattell, Kathy Michell

The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of completed case studies of two major multi‐channel grocery retailers in South Africa. The aim of the research was to…

Envelope within an envelope: an FM approach to adaptive re‐use of redundant barns

Antonio Frattari, David Lawrence

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the innovative concept of “envelope within an envelope” as a tool to give redundant timber farm barns (which may be perceived as…

Fitness for purpose: A performance evaluation methodology for the management of university buildings

Maria Fianchini

The paper seeks to work out methodologies, procedures and tools to evaluate the fitness for purpose of university buildings, to be used for the brief.

Clients' goals and the construction project management process

Göran Lindahl, Nina Ryd

The paper seeks to suggest methods that will enable innovative and effective communication and collaboration between clients and construction project management professionals.

Case study of improvement schemes of public housing in the Slovak Republic

Zuzana Vranayova, Juraj Kalas, Miroslav Lichner

Since 1989, the efficiency of heat production has increased remarkably, and heat and water consumption have decreased significantly. This is largely due to the liberalization of…

Aspect of functionality in modernization of office buildings

Wacław Szarejko, Elzbieta Trocka‐Leszczynska

The purpose of this paper is to search for a modernization model of functionally obsolete office buildings, taking into consideration the different needs of potential users.

IB W070 2006 Trondheim International Symposium: Meetin

Tore I. Haugen

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