Journal of Facilities Management: Volume 1 Issue 1

Outsourcing: Ensuring survival with strategic global partners

Joseph D. Incognito

The new millennium has already presented the Facility Manager with more challenges than the last decade. Fiscal survival, global dominance and, of late, total enterprise security…

Facility management: How a virtual model enabled a breakthrough for a high‐tech company

Dennis Kniery

In 1999, Hewlett‐Packard Company (HP) began the reinvention of the entire company to provide an infrastructure which would respond to the demands of an ever‐changing industry…

Research about office workplace activities important to US businesses ‐ And how to support them

John Olson

A research‐based approach was used to develop business supportive office workplace design concepts during individual projects for multiple US‐based clients. Together, the…

Maximising FM’s contribution to shareholder value Part I: Can the capital expenditure process for fixed assets be improved?

Barry Lynch

Planning and implemating fixed asset capital projects that increase shareholder value is problematic because the process spans the entire enterprise and requires the coordinated…

Can FM evolve? If not, what future?

Ilfryn Price

Facility/facilities management’s (FM) continuing struggle with its search for a strategic identity is attested by publications of many leading authorities in the field. Some…

Strategic asset management incorporating ecologically sustainable development

Roy Barton, Delwyn Jones, Dale Gilbert

Strategic asset management (SAM) provides guiding principles for strategic planning, procurement, use and disposal of public sector buildings. It is proposed that the whole SAM…

Renovation of offices: A survey of reasons, points of attention and obstacles in the Netherlands

Geert Vijverberg

A research study was recently carried out at the Technical University (TU) in Delft into the renovation of office buildings in the Netherlands. Renovation is defined as follows…