Journal of Facilities Management: Volume 22 Issue 2

Occupant trust in indoor air quality in a large office building after an emergent wildfire

Amy Kim, Shuoqi Wang, Lindsay McCunn, Novi T.I. Bramono

This paper aims to establish a reliable scale measuring occupants’ levels of environmental trust in their work settings’ indoor air quality and explore the relationship between…

Barriers to the green retrofitting of existing residential buildings

Christopher Amoah, Jeanne Smith

This study aims to examine the challenges for green retrofitting implementation in existing residential buildings to lower the running cost and achieve a better energy-efficient…

Inclusiveness assessment tool for disabled persons in higher education facilities

Ahmad Mohammad Ahmad, Shimaa Abdelkarim, Maryam Al-Nuaimi, Nancy Makhoul, Lizmol Mathew, Shaibu Garba

Globally, there is a growing proportion of disabled people as a result of different circumstances. This growth generates attention and leads to ways to integrate the affected…

The relationship between firm risk, capital structure, cost of equity capital, and social and environmental sustainability during the COVID-19 pandemic

Arash Arianpoor, Seyyed Sajjad Naeimi Tajdar

This study aims to explore the relationship between firm risk, capital structure, cost of equity capital and social and environmental sustainability during the COVID-19 pandemic…

Drivers of facility management strategies used in multi-tenanted office buildings in Ghana

Oliver Tannor, Elvis Attakora-Amaniampong, Emmanuel Kanchebe Derbile

This study aims to assess the facilities management (FM) strategies used in multi-tenanted purpose-built office buildings (Mt-POBs) in Ghana and the drivers that influence the…

Smart design of energy-saving and water-saving facilities: a perspective of emotional factors

Kuei-Chen Chiu

This paper aims to answer these questions: “Is the public adopting energy-saving and water-saving facilities because they want to save energy and water in their psychological…

Proposed flood evacuation routes for heritage areas based on spatial configuration analysis: a case study of Penang, Malaysia

Mina Safizadeh, Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali, Aldrin Abdullah, Nor Zarifah Maliki

Because of the global increase of climate change effects, floods are becoming more frequent and severer, especially in urban areas of coastal cities and islands where floodplains…

Exploring influencing factors for private sector participation in PPP power projects: case of Ghana

Augustine Senanu Komla Kukah, De-Graft Owusu-Manu, Edward Badu, David John Edwards

Demand for private investment in infrastructure, notably in the power sector remains high, and this is anticipated to expand with the passage of time. Very little research…

A bi-objective aircraft maintenance routing problem based on flying hours to efficient use of available fleet

Hiwa Esmaeilzadeh, Alireza Rashidi Komijan, Hamed Kazemipoor, Mohammad Fallah, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam

The proposed model aims to consider the flying hours as a criterion to initiate maintenance operation. Based on this condition, aircraft must be checked before flying hours…