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Determining ventilation strategies to relieve health symptoms among school occupants
Ulrika Uotila, Arto SaariPoor indoor air quality (IAQ) contributing to occupants’ health symptoms is a universal, typically ventilation-related, problem in schools. In cold climates, low-cost strategies…
Pupils’ experience of noise in two acoustically different classrooms
Jenni Radun, Mikko Lindberg, Aleksi Lahti, Marjaana Veermans, Reijo Alakoivu, Valtteri HongistoThis study aims to examine activity-related sound levels and pupils’ perceptions of the acoustic environment in two classrooms, one of which was a traditional classroom (Reference…
Predict the priority of end-users’ maintenance requests and the required technical staff through LSTM and Bi-LSTM recurrent neural networks
Marco D’Orazio, Gabriele Bernardini, Elisa Di GiuseppeThis paper aims to develop predictive methods, based on recurrent neural networks, useful to support facility managers in building maintenance tasks, by collecting information…
Municipal facilities managers as strategists
Pernilla Gluch, Ingrid Svensson, Jan BröchnerThis study aims to investigate practitioners’ perceptions of strategic work in municipal facilities management: how public facilities management is changing, what is included in…
Exploration of a Web-based accessibility tool for public facilities
Gunilla Carlsson, Oskar Jonsson, Stefan Olander, Marianne Salén, Eva Månsson Lexell, Björn SlaugThis study aims to explore how an accessibility database (AD) has been developed and implemented as a tool for facility managers to evaluate and increase the accessibility of…
Analysis of airport design for introducing infrastructure for autonomous drones
Harry Edelman, Joel Stenroos, Jorge Peña Queralta, David Hästbacka, Jani Oksanen, Tomi Westerlund, Juha RöningConnecting autonomous drones to ground operations and services is a prerequisite for the adoption of scalable and sustainable drone services in the built environment. Despite the…
Bibliometric and content analyses of research on technology use in real estate facilities management
Chioma OkoroTechnological change drives transformation in most sectors of the economy. Industry 4.0 technologies have been applied at different stages of a building’s lifecycle. However…
Consequences of implementing activity-based flexible offices in academia: a follow-up study of perceived changes in the physical and psychosocial work environment after relocation
Susanna Toivanen, Hanne Berthelsen, Tuija MuhonenThis study aims to investigate university staff relocation from multiple separate buildings to a new building with activity-based flexible offices (AFOs) at a University in…
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- Dr Joseph Lai
- Dr Sarel Lavy