Facilities: Volume 34 Issue 5/6

Editorial

Sarel Lavy

Sustainable healthcare design: Existing challenges and future directions for an environmental, economic, and social approach to sustainability

Rana Sagha Zadeh, Xiaodong Xuan, Mardelle M. Shepley

Healthcare projects face multiple obstacles in achieving sustainability. This paper aims to provide information regarding the energy consumption of healthcare facilities, to…

Improving occupational health by modelling indoor pollutant distribution

Rui Pitarma, Miguel Lourenço, João Ramos

Indoor environments are characterized by several pollutant sources. Some of these can be sufficiently characterized through the prediction of the airflow and pollutant…

Typologies for co-working spaces in Finland – what and how?

Inka Kojo, Suvi Nenonen

This paper aims to categorize the typologies of co-working spaces and describe their main characteristics.

The impact of environmental management awards and certifications in property management on property price

Eddie Chi-man Hui, Ka-hung Yu, Cheuk-kin Tse

As the awareness of environmental preservation and of sustainable development have become increasingly pronounced among various stakeholders, such as governments and communities…

Identifying and managing risks involved in the transition to the EU nZEB decree

Mikko Kantola, Arto Saari

The purpose of this paper is to identify the risks and challenges related to the change in building construction projects to the European Union (EU) zero-energy building (nZEB…

Design and management of recycling facilities for household and community recycling participation

Kin Wai Michael Siu, Jia Xin Xiao

This paper aims to address convenience as a prominent feature of a scheduled society and examines the nature of convenience, identifies the waste collection system and recycling…

Case Studies in Project, Program and Organisational Project Management

Zehra Waheed