Facilities: Volume 40 Issue 15/16

Assessing ventilation strategies in a school with observed indoor air problems

Ulrika Uotila, Arto Saari, Juha-Matti Kalevi Junnonen, Lari Eskola

Poor indoor air quality in schools is a worldwide challenge that poses health risks to pupils and teachers. A possible response to this problem is to modify ventilation…

Workplace change process and satisfaction with activity-based office

Pia Sirola, Annu Haapakangas, Marjaana Lahtinen, Virpi Ruohomäki

The purpose of this case study is to investigate how the personnel in an organization experienced the process of change when moving from private offices to an activity-based…

Smart workplace solutions – can they deliver the offices that employees have been waiting for?

Laura Remes, Kenneth Dooley, Jaakko Ketomäki, Heikki Ihasalo

User-centred intelligent buildings (IBs) should respond to users’ needs holistically and the demand for end user applications is steadily growing. The purpose of this study is to…

Improving health in the military and beyond using salutogenic design

Stephanie Brick

Service members of the US Department of Defense (DoD) have alarmingly high rates of depression, anxiety, probable stress disorders and suicidality, all of which are negative…

The relationship of physical, digital and social work environment changes with the development of organizational performance in the activity-based work environment

Peter Lindeberg, Minna Saunila, Pia Lappalainen, Juhani Ukko, Hannu Rantanen

Work environments are undergoing a transformation where organizations have various spatial solutions at their disposal. However, organizations may have challenges in making the…

Digitalization, innovation capabilities and absorptive capacity in the Swedish real estate ecosystem

Olli Vigren, Anna Kadefors, Kent Eriksson

The purpose of this paper is to increase the knowledge of real estate firms’ capabilities to innovate and, consequently, their capacity to absorb new innovations and benefit from…

Factors affecting effective facilities management practices in South Africa: a case study of Kwazulu Natal Province

Modupe Cecilia Mewomo, Petronella Minehle Ndlovu, Comfort Olubukola Iyiola

Although facilities management (FM) has been advocated in the construction industry to address the issues of facilities in buildings, their adoption is still plagued with…

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in the home workplace in relation to mental well-being

Bouke Boegheim, Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Dujuan Yang, Marcel Loomans

This paper aims to study employee mental health in relation to workplace design and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) when working from home, which has received little attention…