Facilities: Volume 35 Issue 7/8

Guest editorial

Alenka Temeljotov Salaj, Anita Ceric

Predicting sustainability assessment at early facilities design phase

Valentina Zileska Pancovska, Silvana Petrusheva, Aleksandar Petrovski

Integrating the aspects of sustainability into facilities design has become a designers’ challenge, and the early design phase is seen as the most important in implementing…

Impact of facilities maintenance on user satisfaction

Bojan Bojan Grum

This paper aims to focus on how participants link the degree of satisfaction regarding the living conditions and the level of maintenance of facilities. The authors were…

The impact of public investments in facilities on the potential housing market for older persons

Samo Drobne, Marija Bogataj

This paper aims to analyse the impact of public investments in facilities on the potential housing market for older persons by expanding the generally used approach of modelling…

Measuring perception about sustainability of building materials in Kosovo

Visar Hoxha, Tore Haugen, Svein Bjorberg

The purpose of this paper is to develop the empirically tested framework about the knowledge and perception about sustainability of building materials in Prishtina, Kosovo from…

Albania vs Norway – FM at two university hospitals

Knut Boge, Anjola Aliaj

Given the premise of de facto universal standards for FM, this paper aims to investigate development of facilities management (FM) at an Albanian and a Norwegian university…