Facilities: Volume 41 Issue 15/16

Determining ventilation strategies to relieve health symptoms among school occupants

Ulrika Uotila, Arto Saari

Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) contributing to occupants’ health symptoms is a universal, typically ventilation-related, problem in schools. In cold climates, low-cost strategies…

Pupils’ experience of noise in two acoustically different classrooms

Jenni Radun, Mikko Lindberg, Aleksi Lahti, Marjaana Veermans, Reijo Alakoivu, Valtteri Hongisto

This study aims to examine activity-related sound levels and pupils’ perceptions of the acoustic environment in two classrooms, one of which was a traditional classroom (Reference…

Predict the priority of end-users’ maintenance requests and the required technical staff through LSTM and Bi-LSTM recurrent neural networks

Marco D’Orazio, Gabriele Bernardini, Elisa Di Giuseppe

This paper aims to develop predictive methods, based on recurrent neural networks, useful to support facility managers in building maintenance tasks, by collecting information…

Municipal facilities managers as strategists

Pernilla Gluch, Ingrid Svensson, Jan Bröchner

This study aims to investigate practitioners’ perceptions of strategic work in municipal facilities management: how public facilities management is changing, what is included in…

Exploration of a Web-based accessibility tool for public facilities

Gunilla Carlsson, Oskar Jonsson, Stefan Olander, Marianne Salén, Eva Månsson Lexell, Björn Slaug

This study aims to explore how an accessibility database (AD) has been developed and implemented as a tool for facility managers to evaluate and increase the accessibility of…

Analysis of airport design for introducing infrastructure for autonomous drones

Harry Edelman, Joel Stenroos, Jorge Peña Queralta, David Hästbacka, Jani Oksanen, Tomi Westerlund, Juha Röning

Connecting autonomous drones to ground operations and services is a prerequisite for the adoption of scalable and sustainable drone services in the built environment. Despite the…

Bibliometric and content analyses of research on technology use in real estate facilities management

Chioma Okoro

Technological change drives transformation in most sectors of the economy. Industry 4.0 technologies have been applied at different stages of a building’s lifecycle. However…

Consequences of implementing activity-based flexible offices in academia: a follow-up study of perceived changes in the physical and psychosocial work environment after relocation

Susanna Toivanen, Hanne Berthelsen, Tuija Muhonen

This study aims to investigate university staff relocation from multiple separate buildings to a new building with activity-based flexible offices (AFOs) at a University in…