Facilities: Volume 21 Issue 5/6

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Table of contents

Seeking a facilities management philosophy for the changing workplace

George Cairns

Promotes the notion that the emergent field of facility/facilities management (FM) requires a philosophical basis, where philosophy refers not to esoteric, academic abstraction…

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An innovative maintenance system for emergency lighting

W.L. Tse, W.L. Chan, S.S. Lai

Fire regulations of different countries require that a monthly test is carried out on each battery back‐up emergency lighting to check for functionality. Existing practice…

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Venue contingency planning for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

Haralabos Stamatakis, Dimitris Gargalianos, Yiannis Afthinos, Pantelis Nassis

Identifies major issues of the contingency planning process covered by the Sydney Organizing Committee of Olympic Games (SOCOG) with regard to the various venues. For the…

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The untethered facilities manager

Edward Finch

Facilities managers have a host of skills to sustain the functionality of complex buildings, often not provided by them directly, but by the team of specialists they draw upon to…

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Using biometrics for sport venue management in a post 9‐11 era

Warren A. Whisenant

The purpose of this paper is to assess technologies, both currently available and under development, which may be used to assist sport facility and other venue operators in…

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Cover of Facilities

ISSN:

0263-2772

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr Joseph Lai
  • Dr Sarel Lavy