Facilities: Volume 21 Issue 10

A method for strategic client briefing

Jim Smith, Ray Wyatt, Norm Jackson

Strategic client briefing is now recognised as an essential component of best practice in facilities management. A number of different briefing approaches have evolved, or are…

The impact of facilities on student choice of university

If Price, Fides Matzdorf, Louise Smith, Helen Agahi

Despite rhetoric of added value, facilities management suffers a dearth of objectively researched, publicly available information concerning the impact of facilities on businesses…

Optimization of MVAC systems for energy management by evolutionary algorithm

K.F. Fong, V.I. Hanby, T.T. Chow

Energy management in existing building services installations is an essential focus of contemporary facilities management. The subway company that is one of the major utilities…

Decentralising asset management in a university environment using Web enabled technology

Gerard Cesar Gabriel

With the advent of Web technology and the proliferation of Web enabled systems in the last few years, remote computer aided facilities management (CAFM) and computer integrated…

Guest editorial

Danny Shiem-Shin Then, John Hinks