Facilities: Volume 37 Issue 3/4

Reflections of a green university building: from design to occupation

Trivess Moore, Usha Iyer-Raniga

The purpose of this paper is to present outcomes from a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of a sustainable university building development.

Building conditions in Norwegian local governments: trends and determinants

Arnt O. Hopland, Sturla Kvamsdal

In light of evidence of low levels of maintenance of public buildings, this paper aims to investigate trends and determinants of public building conditions in Norwegian local…

Differences in conventional and seniors-oriented apartment management

Heidi H. Ewen, Andrew Carswell

From the consumer side, this paper aims to highlight some of the various characteristics that older renters seek out from their apartment buildings, relative to conventional…

Influence of facilities performance on student’s satisfaction in Northern Nigerian universities: Results from interim study

Isa Abdullahi, Wan Zahari Wan Yusoff

Higher institutions in Nigeria have witnessed an increase in the number of student enrolments; Northern Nigerian universities are not excluded. As the number of students…

Facilities management in the NHS: overlapping authority and demarcation disputes

Daryl May

This research aims to investigate the implementation of the new ward housekeeper role in a hospital setting. The purpose is to propose a model to demonstrate how facilities…

Engineering-out hazards: digitising the management working safety in confined spaces

Erika A. Parn, David Edwards, Zainab Riaz, Fahad Mehmood, Joseph Lai

This paper aims to report upon the further development of a hybrid application programming interface (API) plug-in to building information modelling (BIM) entitled confined spaces…

CO2 emissions from facility services

Andrea Pelzeter, René Sigg

The purpose of this paper is identification of a methodology to determine CO₂ emissions through facility services on an approximate and sufficiently accurate basis. This…

The effect of facilities management of common areas on the environment domain of quality of life or older people in private buildings

Mei-yung Leung, Qi Liang, Jon Pynoos

The world was facing significant aging challenges. Aging in place has long been advocated which reflected the preference of older people to stay in their own home as long as…