Facilities: Volume 37 Issue 1/2

Guest editorial

Matthew Tucker

Employees’ preferences for services and facilities offered in serviced offices

Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Mike van de Kar, Pauline van den Berg, Theo Arentze

Serviced offices are popular, offering many services and facilities to attract tenants. As research showed that most business centres occupy similar buildings, services are…

The influence of personal- and business centre characteristics on knowledge sharing types in business centres

Minou Weijs-Perrée, Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Theo Arentze, Georges Romme

Knowledge sharing is a process where individuals mutually exchange knowledge to create new knowledge. Understanding the knowledge-sharing process, during which organizations share…

Knowledge workers deserve differentiated offices and workplace facilities

Knut Boge, Alenka Temeljorov Salaj, Ida Bakken, Magnus Granli, Silje Mandrup

The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that influence effective workplace designs for knowledge workers.

How can universities align bricks with modern learning?

Hester van Sprang, Jasper Driessen, Brenda Groen

This study aims to explore modern learning (ML) scenarios in Dutch higher education towards 2030 and corresponding consequences for facility management (FM) and corporate real…

Embodying circularity through usable relocatable modular buildings

Riikka Kyrö, Tuuli Jylhä, Antti Peltokorpi

Global megatrends such as urbanization and ageing of the population result in fast-paced demographic changes, which pose different types of challenges for different regions. While…

Into the light: effects of the presence of cleaning staff on customer experience

Martijn C. Vos, Jessica Sauren, Olaf Knoop, Mirjam Galetzka, Mark P. Mobach, Ad T.H. Pruyn

The purpose of this paper is to determine how the presence of cleaning staff affects perceptions and satisfaction of train passengers. Day-time cleaning is becoming increasingly…

Critical success factors for facility management employer’s information requirements (EIR) for BIM

Simon Ashworth, Matthew Tucker, Carsten K. Druhmann

This paper aims to describe the development and testing of an employer’s information requirements (EIR) template and guidance document designed to meet client and facility…