Facilities: Volume 36 Issue 5/6

Concerns among local government facility managers: a Norwegian survey

Arnt O. Hopland, Sturla Kvamsdal

This paper aims to investigate which concerns are most important for local government facility managers in Norway.

Perception of hospital environment before and after relocation

Jori Reijula, Virpi Ruohomäki

This study assessed employees’ perceptions of their hospital work environment, its quality and functionality, as well as their satisfaction and well-being both before and after…

Living where you work: Determining the value-added nature of the on-site residential property manager

Andrew T. Carswell

This paper aims to examine whether property managers who live on-site within a residential apartment building provide a value-added benefit to the management in the form of cost…

Providing a sustainable living environment in not-for-profit retirement villages: A case study in Australia

Xin Hu, Bo Xia, Martin Skitmore, Laurie Buys

As a viable housing option for older people, retirement villages need to provide a sustainable living environment that satisfies their residents’ needs in terms of affordability…

Do ambient conditions in offices impact learning?

Aneetha Rao Kasuganti

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between satisfaction with ambient conditions and perceptions of situated learning in knowledge-intensive…

Influence of Chinese geomancy on facilities operations and maintenance (FOM)

Sui Pheng Low, Shang Gao, Jun Kai Ang

There have recently been an increasing number of scientific studies exploring the effectiveness of practising Chinese geomancy or feng shui in the built environment. However…

Facilities Management and the Business of Managing Assets

Zehra Waheed