Facilities: Volume 37 Issue 9/10

Guest editor note

Jan Bröchner, Tore Haugen, Carmel Lindkvist

Ensuring environmental performance in green leases: the role of facilities managers

Raufdeen Rameezdeen, Jian Zuo, Jorge Ochoa Paniagua, Anthony Wood, Phuong Do

A green lease incorporates sustainability practices to reduce a building’s negative impact on the environment. Facilities managers play an important role in ensuring these best…

Implementing sustainable facility management: Challenges and barriers encountered by Scandinavian FM practitioners

Marit Støre-Valen, Martine Buser

The development of sustainable facilities management (FM) practices requires active and integrated engagement of the FM organization. Building on a three-year research project…

Floor finish selection in the design of healthcare facilities: a survey of facility managers

Manish K. Dixit, Shashank Singh, Sarel Lavy, Wei Yan, Fatemeh Pariafsai, Mohammadreza Ostadalimakhmalbaf

The purpose of this study is to create a knowledge base for decision-making in healthcare design by seeking, analyzing and discussing the preferences of facility managers of…

Indoor air in healing environments: Monitoring chemical pollution in inpatient rooms

Marco Gola, Gaetano Settimo, Stefano Capolongo

Several countries have carried out air quality monitoring in professional workplaces where chemicals are used. Health-care spaces have been less investigated. This paper aims to…

Rethinking life cycle cost drivers for sustainable office buildings in Denmark

Kim Haugbølle, Lau M. Raffnsøe

Sustainable building design suffers from a lack of reliable life cycle data. The purpose of this paper is to compare life cycle costs of sustainable building projects, examine the…

Bridging the gap between sustainable FM and sustainable buildings – an exploratory study of six public buildings in Norway

Dave Collins, Tore Haugen, Carmel Lindkvist, Christian Aamodt

The purpose of this paper is to explore how sustainable facilities management (SFM) and sustainable buildings (SB) can be designed and managed, bridging these gaps with a more…

Circular economy and real estate: the legal (im)possibilities of operational lease

Hendrik Ploeger, Matthijs Prins, Ad Straub, Robert Van den Brink

A paradigm in circular economy (CE) is that suppliers retain ownership of their products and materials, and that the users “only” pay for services. In many legal systems, however…

Understanding pro-environmental workplace behavior: a comparative study

Ecem Tezel, Heyecan Giritli

This paper aims to fulfill the gap in existing knowledge of determinants of pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in the workplace and the influence of sustainability certificates on…