Facilities: Volume 34 Issue 3/4

Editorial

Joseph H.K. Lai

Critical success factors for public-private partnership in water supply projects

Ernest Effah Ameyaw, Albert P.C. Chan

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are viewed as a reform tool for resolving inefficiency and absence of dynamism in water supply delivery in developing countries. However, the…

Measuring the performance of property management companies in high-rise flats

Daniel C.W. Ho, Ervi Liusman

The complex nature of multi-ownership, multi-storey buildings requires the services of property management companies (PMCs). Naturally, homeowners favor PMCs with good…

Towards sustainable public FM: collective building of capabilities

Kirsten Ramskov Galamba, Susanne Balslev Nielsen

Public facilities management (FM) is in the unique position of aligning building projects and FM with the policies of sustainable development at societal level. However…

Implementation of a local authority workspace strategy in the UK: The case of Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

Bob Giddings, Vladimir Ladinski

This paper aims to examine the implementation of a workspace strategy within Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. It identifies the efficiencies that were achieved through the…

The role of formal and informal surveillance in creating a safe and entertaining retail environment

Sami Kajalo, Arto Lindblom

A key question for shopping malls is to create a retail environment that is at the same time safe and entertaining. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into this…

Automated building information modeling for fault detection and diagnostics in commercial HVAC systems

Alireza Golabchi, Manu Akula, Vineet Kamat

Organizations involved in facility management (FM) can use building information modeling (BIM) as a knowledge repository to document evolving facility information and to support…

Reducing carbon footprint of facilities using a facility management approach

Manish K. Dixit, Charles H. Culp, Jose L. Fernandez-Solis, Sarel Lavy

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of a life cycle approach in facilities management practices to reduce the carbon footprint of built facilities. A model to…