Facilities: Volume 34 Issue 1/2

Risk analysis in maintainability of high-rise buildings under tropical conditions using ensemble neural network

Nayanthara De Silva, Malik Ranasinghe, Chathura Ranjan De Silva

The aim of this research study is to develop a risk-based framework that can quantify maintainability to forecast future maintainability of a building at early stages as a…

A new approach to measure sustainability in German facility management

Carl-Alexander Graubner, Andrea Pelzeter, Sebastian Pohl

The purpose of this paper is to present the development of an action and assessment framework to make sustainability in German facility management (FM) transparent, measurable and…

Relationship value in outsourced FM services – value dimensions and drivers

Ying Ying Cui, Christian Coenen

The purpose of this study is to examine the relation between relationship value and relationship quality in the business relationship between customers and facility management…

Investigating human and technological requirements for successful implementation of a BIM-based mobile augmented reality environment in facility management practices

Masoud Gheisari, Javier Irizarry

With the facility management industry increasingly adopting building information modeling (BIM) technologies, there is a need to investigate where this industry stands in its…

Project delivery systems for nZEB projects

Mikko Kantola, Arto Saari

The paper aims to reveal the most functioning project delivery systems for nearly zero-energy building (nZEB) projects. The focus is set to reveal the qualities of the systems…

Internal rent – experiences from public sector in Norway

Ola Lædre, Jardar Lohne, Tore Haugen

– The purpose of this paper is to identify the advantages and disadvantages of introducing internal rent and to find the main success factors when introducing internal rent.

Capture and Reuse of Project Knowledge in Construction

Zehra Waheed