Facilities: Volume 27 Issue 3/4

Realising benefits in primary healthcare infrastructures

Stelios Sapountzis, Kathryn Yates, Mike Kagioglou, Ghassan Aouad

This paper seeks to focus on the requirements to manage change, tangible and intangible benefits in a joint approach to deliver outputs on time, to quality and cost without…

On locational preferences for privacy in hospital wards

Chaham Alalouch, Peter Aspinall, Harry Smith

The purpose of this article is to explore preference for privacy among people with different demographic and cultural backgrounds. In particular the study aims to investigate the…

Integrated healthcare facilities maintenance management model: case studies

Sarel Lavy, Igal M. Shohet

Increasing demand for healthcare services world‐wide creates continuous requirements to reduce expenditures on “non‐core” activities, such as maintenance and operations. At the…

Re‐engineering of the meal logistics in a sheltered house for elderly people

Leena Aalto, Arto Saari

The goal of this study is to perform an economic comparison of alternative service concepts designed to improve the productivity of nursing care in a refurbishment project of…

The impacts of the built environment on health outcomes

Ricardo Codinhoto, Patricia Tzortzopoulos, Mike Kagioglou, Ghassan Aouad, Rachel Cooper

The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that categorises the features and characteristics of the built environment that impact on health outcomes.

Performance evaluation of a psychiatric facility in São Paulo, Brasil

Sheila Walbe Ornstein, Rosaria Ono, P.A. Lopes, A.J.G.L. França, C.Y. Kawakita, Machado, L.V.L. Robles, S.H. Tamashiro, P.R. Fernandes

This paper aims to present the results of a post‐occupancy evaluation (POE) in a complex hospital building, and also to discuss a system for analyzing and diagnosing those results.

Editorial

Daryl May