Facilities: Volume 38 Issue 3/4

BIM business value for asset owners through effective asset information management

Mustapha Munir, Arto Kiviniemi, Stephen Finnegan, Stephen W. Jones

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the processes, tools and techniques of strategic asset information management (AIM) for built assets, and how the asset information…

A case study of facilities management for heritage building revitalisation

Huiying Hou, Hao Wu

Heritage building revitalisation (HBR) is gaining its popularity to intervene historic buildings/sites for their conservation and reuse. Given that multiple stake-holding…

Professional voices on risk and accidents in home care – a Swedish survey study

Jörgen Lundälv, Inga Malmqvist, Charlotta Thodelius

The purpose of this study is to find out what knowledge and experience of occupational therapists, personal assistants and public health nurses/nurses in Sweden can contribute…

Managing environmental building performance through IT systems

Esmir Maslesa, Per Anker Jensen

This paper aims to disclose the role and features of various IT systems for environmental building performance (EBP) in facilities management.

Design guidelines for female Muslim prayer facilities in public buildings

Ahmed Hanafi Mokhtar

Practicing Muslims pray five times a day during specified periods. Hence, public buildings in many Muslim-majority countries tend to have prayer facilities. These facilities are…

Big Data analytics and facilities management: a case study

Eunhwa Yang, Ipsitha Bayapu

This paper aims to investigate data elements, transfer, gaps and the challenges to implement data analytics in facilities management. The goal is not to search for a definite…

Employee-workplace alignment: Employee characteristics and perceived workplace requirements

Michael Roskams, Barry Haynes

This paper aims to identify the employee characteristics which are most strongly associated with perceived requirements for different aspects of the workplace environment.

Toward a theory on workplaces for smart workers

Luisa Errichiello, Tommasina Pianese

The purpose of this paper is to identify the main features of smart work centers (SWCs) and show how these innovative offices would support the implementation of smart working and…

Knowledge mapping of office workspace: a scientometric review of studies

Wadu Mesthrige Jayantha, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin

Office workspace is more than a place but one of the essential resources in business organizations. In recent years, research in office workspace management has become an…

Higher education space management through user-centric data analytics

Sarel Lavy, Elmira Daneshpour, Kunhee Choi

This study aims to investigate critical spatial factors that may affect the utilization rate of graduate student study space in higher education institutions (HEI). It is…