Facilities: Volume 30 Issue 5/6

A classification framework for facilities and real estate management: The Built Environment Management Model (BEM2)

Matthias Ebinger, Thomas Madritsch

This paper aims to present an industry‐neutral classification model for the management functions of the organizational built environment: the Built Environment Management Model…

In search for the added value of FM: what we know and what we need to learn

Per Anker Jensen, Theo van der Voordt, Christian Coenen, Daniel von Felten, Anna‐Liisa Lindholm, Susanne Balslev Nielsen, Chaiwat Riratanaphong, Mirjam Pfenninger

This article aims to present and compare research perspectives and theoretical reflections from a variety of academic fields on the concept of added value of facilities management.

UK building surveying education: the graduates' view

Mike Hoxley

Many facilities management professionals originally graduated from a building surveying course. The high referral rate of the professional body pre‐qualification assessment…

Infrastructure asset: developing maintenance management capability

Eric Too

Maintenance management is a core process in infrastructure asset management. Infrastructure organisations must constantly strive to ensure the effectiveness of this process in…

Facilities management: lost, or regained?

Bernard Drion, Frans Melissen, Roy Wood

The objective of this paper is to examine the continuing debate over the nature, scope and definition of facilities management and the implications of FM practice in the field of…

Open Facility Management: A Successful Implementation in Public Administration

Zehra Waheed

Editorial

Edward Finch