Journal of Facilities Management: Volume 20 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Digital innovation and transformation in built asset and facility management

Long Chen, Jian Yang, Qiuchen Lu

BIM-enabled facilities management (FM): a scrutiny of risks resulting from cyber attacks

Nikdokht Ghadiminia, Mohammad Mayouf, Sharon Cox, Jan Krasniewicz

Building information modelling (BIM) creates a golden thread of information of the facility, which proves useful to those with the malicious intent of breaching the security of…

Study workplace space occupancy: a review of measures and technologies

Yaoyi Zhou, Ying Hua, Jingyang Liu

The purpose of this paper is to review the use of technologies for measuring space occupancy to guide the selection of appropriate tools for workplace post-occupancy evaluation…

A systematic review of building systems and technologies to mitigate the spread of airborne viruses

Amna Salman, Anoop Sattineni, Salman Azhar, Kasia Leousis

The purpose of this study is to conduct a rigorous systematic literature review and present a summary of building systems and technologies that can be used to mitigate the spread…

Integrating BIM into sensor-based facilities management operations

Mojtaba Valinejadshoubi, Osama Moselhi, Ashutosh Bagchi

To mitigate the problems in sensor-based facility management (FM) such as lack of detailed visual information about a built facility and the maintenance of large scale sensor…

From crowd to cloud: simplified automatic reconstruction of digital building assets for facility management

Srinimalan Balakrishnan Selvakumaran, Daniel Mark Hall

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the feasibility of an end-to-end simplified and automated reconstruction pipeline for digital building assets using the design science…

IoT-BIM-based digital transformation in facilities management: a conceptual model

Kalani Chamika Dahanayake, Nipuni Sumanarathna

This paper aims to explore the opportunities of integrating internet of things (IoT) with building information modelling (BIM) to support the digital transformation of facilities…

Effective use of blockchain technology for facilities management procurement process

Hasni Gayathma Gunasekara, Pournima Sridarran, Dilakshan Rajaratnam

Facilities management (FM) has become a revolutionary profession, which adds value to the built environment. Compared to other industries, the development of the FM industry is at…

BIM-based time-cost optimization of a large-span spatial steel structure in an airport terminal building

Jingyu Yu, Jingfeng Wang, Zhengmao Hua, Xingxing Wang

Airports are booming in China, to enlarge their capacities and stimulate economic development. Large-span spatial steel structures are commonly used in the terminal buildings of…

Digital transformation of legionella-safe cooling towers: an ecosystem design approach

Alexandra Ângelo, João Barata

Legionnaires’ disease is a major threat to public health. Solutions to deal with this problem are usually siloed and not entirely effective. This paper aims to model the…

Exploring e-complaint method: learning from the Malaysian Polytechnic institutions

Zul-Atfi Ismail

The conventional e-complaint method provides a platform that contains multiple data sources of an infrastructure project, including building facilities, associated asset…