Facilities: Volume 23 Issue 3/4

Innovation process and innovativeness of facility management organizations

Tomas Mudrak, Andreas van Wagenberg, Emiel Wubben

The innovation patterns and processes in facility management (FM) organizations are crucial for the development of FM as a discipline, but they are not yet fully explored and…

Adaptable office buildings: theory and practice

Kirsten Arge

The importance of adaptability in office buildings has increased during the past years, mostly due to factors like rapid change, both in private and public organisations, new and…

Network service organisation: a multiple pilot study

Antti Tuomela, Anssi Salonen

Centralised workplace and decentralised facilities management organisations combine several interacting functions. Different levels of a network service organisation are…

The added value of facilities management: benchmarking work processes

Bram Wauters

To provide a review of the various approaches to benchmarking and best practice facilities benchmarking techniques currently applied on the European Facilities Management Market.

Effects of sound in offices: subjective experience vs objective assessment

Pierre Chigot

To guide facilities professionals regarding the use of scientific research and provide an objective framework in the decision making on facilities planning and management.

Step‐by‐step process analysis for hospital facility management: An insight into the OPIK research project

Kunibert Lennerts, Jochen Abel, Uwe Pfründer, Vishal Sharma

Healthcare systems are very costly and the inpatient treatment in hospitals is a major part of these costs. The question is, how can greater efficiency be effected without…

Useful buildings for office activities

Jesper Steen, Magnus Blombergsson, Johanna Wiklander

There is lack of knowledge about how movements and interaction within offices are related to the work activities and the premises. This paper aims to develop such knowledge and to…

FM as a scientific field of inquiry: theory, research and practice

Tomas Mudrak, Andreas van Wagenberg, Emiel Wubben