Facilities: Volume 41 Issue 1/2

Converting commercial and industrial property into rented residential accommodation: development of a decision support tool

Kieran Taylor, David J. Edwards, Joseph H.K. Lai, Iain Rillie, Wellington Didibhuku Thwala, Mark Shelbourn

This study aims to develop a decision-making tool that assesses the economic feasibility of converting commercial and industrial buildings into rented residential accommodation…

At differing scales: the commonalities between green leasing and urban FM from the perspectives of sustainable urban development projects

Dave Collins

The purpose of this study is to look at what Urban Facilities Management (FM) and Green Leasing have in common and the degree to which they are ultimately reliant on one another…

Stakeholder experiential knowledge as evidence in redesigning health-care facilities for improved usability

Zoya Evans Kpamma, Stephen Agyefi-Mensah, Abdul-Manan Sadick

Evidence-based design (EBD) is traditionally limited to using empirical research findings based on randomized controlled trials. The purpose of this study is to explore…

Reducing the spread of COVID-19 transmission through analysis of the evolving building ventilation systems guidance

Renee Fleming, Katherine Maslak Madson, Bradley Perkins

The purpose of this study was to examine how data from the World Health Organization, United States Environmental Protection Agency and Center for Disease Control have evolved…

Indoor room temperature forecasting in buildings: a literature review (2001-21)

Kamal Pandey, Bhaskar Basu

Building energy management systems use important information from indoor room temperature (IRT) forecasting to predict daily loads within smart buildings. IRT forecasting is a…

The relationship between facilities management service quality and patients’ health-care experience: the mediating effect of adequacy of health-care resource

Oti Amankwah, Weng Wai Choong, Naana Amakie Boakye-Agyeman

With challenges in health-care facilities management (FM) and adequacy of health-care resources constraints in most developing countries, improving patient’s health-care…

Building conditions and citizen satisfaction with local public services

Arnt O. Hopland, Sturla Kvamsdal

Although Norway is an affluent country, there is widespread and long-lasting worry related to the condition of public purpose buildings. The purpose of this paper is to study how…

Purpose, process, place, pedagogical affordance and product (5Ps) of student learning in higher education: beyond Beckers

Marian Mahat

Universities are investing billions of dollars in building infrastructure, with the design of learning spaces driven by technological developments and long-standing changes in…