Facilities: Volume 39 Issue 9/10

Facilitating campus interactions – critical success factors according to university facility directors

Sascha Naomi Jansz, Terry van Dijk, Mark P. Mobach

The purpose of this paper is to investigate which critical success factors (CSFs) influence interaction on campuses as identified by the facility directors (FDs) of Dutch…

Understanding the knowledge and engagement of facilities management with dementia-friendly design in Irish hospitals: an exploratory study

Dimitra Xidous, Tom Grey, Sean P. Kennelly, Desmond O’Neill

This exploratory study stems from research conducted between 2015–2018 focussing on dementia-friendly design (DFD) in hospitals (Grey T. et al. 2018). Specifically, this study…

Expert-based approach to rank critical asset assessment factors for healthcare facilities

Dalia Salem, Emad Elwakil

This research’s main objective is to develop an expert-based approach to rank critical asset assessment factors for health-care facilities. This approach will improve the asset…

Who should clean the university? The in-house outsourcing decision from a student perspective

Peter Palm

This paper aims to investigate how the students perceive the cleaning of the university, from an in-house and outsourced perspective.

Environmental demands and resources: a framework for understanding the physical environment for work

Michael Roskams, Barry Haynes

The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory (Demerouti et al., 2001; Bakker and Demerouti, 2017) is an appropriate conceptual…

Chiller system performance management with market basket analysis

Wai Tung Ho, Fu Wing Yu

This study aims to apply association rule mining (ARM) to uncover specific associations between operating components of a chiller system and improve its coefficient of performance…