Facilities: Volume 38 Issue 11/12

Guest editorial

Alenka Temeljotov Salaj, Carmel Lindkvist

Identifying the key factors in construction projects that affect neighbourhood social sustainability

Essam Almahmoud, Hemanta Kumar Doloi

Construction projects have huge impacts on the social sustainability of the neighbouring community. The purpose of this paper is to identify and understand the key factors of a…

Concepts of social sustainability based on social infrastructure and quality of life

Bojan Grum, Darja Kobal Grum

There is a lack of theoretical and empirical studies regarding concepts of social sustainability based on social infrastructure. The idea of understanding this paper is that…

Placemaking as an approach of sustainable urban facilities management

Milena Vukmirovic, Suzana Gavrilović

This paper aims to present the potential of placemaking as an approach of sustainable urban facilities management and its impacts on the improvement of the planning procedures…

Developing healthy cities with urban facility management

Jeannette E. Nijkamp, Mark P. Mobach

Most people live in cities and work in offices, two contexts offering many lifestyle-related and environmental health risks. To advance their health, this paper aims to introduce…

Living-dwelling | the importance of half-private spaces in the neighborhoods on the city borderline

Mihajlo Zinoski

The purpose of this paper is to present the participatory action project, in an attempt to redefine the aprioristic approach, which does not bring significant results for the…

Teaching urban facility management, global citizenship and livability

Rachel Kuijlenburg

This paper aims to explain the influence of facility design on urban quality of life from an educational perspective. The outcome of this paper is to determine the influence of…

An interactive tool for citizens’ involvement in the sustainable regeneration

Alenka Temeljotov Salaj, Savis Gohari, Coline Senior, Yan Xue, Carmel Lindkvist

The purpose of this paper is to test possibilities of real participation in FM field in response to the energy sustainable demand by using new technologies for better…

The efficacy of campus wayfinding signage: a comparative study from Hong Kong and Pakistan

Hassan Iftikhar, Salman Asghar, Yan Luximon

Complex environments have a paucity of visual wayfinding information creating a strenuous situation for the new visitors. University campuses situated in the central urban areas…