Journal of Facilities Management: Volume 16 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Alex Opoku, Peter Guthrie, Vian Ahmed

Stimulating growth and improving the delivery of housing microfinance interventions: An analysis of critical demand factors

Francis Kwesi Bondinuba, Alex Opoku, Degraft Owusu-Manu, Kenneth Appiah Donkor-Hyiaman

The emergence of housing microfinance (HMF) as a response to the low-income groups’ inability to access traditional housing finance is an innovative strategy by creative…

The Social Value Act 2012: current state of practice in the social housing sector

Alex Opoku, Peter Guthrie

The social housing sector is under increasing pressure to do more with less and provide value for money as part of the UK Government’s public debt reduction strategy. This study…

The UK housing developers’ five-star rating: fact or fiction?

Christopher Boothman, Nigel Craig, James Sommerville

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the data collected by the House Builders Federation (HBF)/National House Building Council (NHBC) surveys are used in practice to…

Employment requirements in Swedish construction procurement – institutional perspectives

Daniella Troje, Anna Kadefors

Today, social procurement and requirements to create employment for disadvantaged groups in particular, are increasingly used in the construction sector. The purpose of this paper…

Housing information modelling for BIM-embedded housing refurbishment

Ki Pyung Kim, Kenneth Sungho Park

The purpose of this study is to identify building information modelling (BIM) input data sets within a BIM-embedded housing refurbishment process and enable construction…

Valuing sustainable change in the built environment: Using SuROI to appraise built environment projects

Anthony Higham, Catherine Barlow, Erik Bichard, Adam Richards

The paper aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses of sustainable return on investment (SuROI) to determine it suitability as a means through which social value can be…

ICT-based system for Malaysian residential maintenance projects – literature review

Zul-Atfi Ismail

This paper aims to identify the different system approach that is equipped with decision making processes. Presently, most maintenance organisations are still implementing…