Journal of Facilities Management: Volume 6 Issue 2

Distractions in the workplace revisited

Kathy O. Roper, Parminder Juneja

The purpose of this paper is to provide a holistic and systematic understanding of a fundamental issue within open plan office designs: the sustainability of two extremely…

Virtual and real boundaries of growth firms: Office space and implications of outsourcing and mergers and acquisition

Paul Dettwiler

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise a dynamic model on the impact on office space and its boundaries of growth firms due to studied factors subject to fluctuations of…

Utility costs: a survey of Swiss office buildings

Christian Stoy, Susanne Kytzia

The purpose of this paper is to examine the utility costs in Swiss office buildings. Owing to their high amount, as well as from an ecological perspective, the utility costs of a…

A service‐oriented architecture for building services integration

Apostolos Malatras, Abolghasem (Hamid) Asgari, Timothy Baugé, Mark Irons

Traditional administration of building services regards them as having confined scope, operating in isolation or tightly coupled and providing minimal support for overall…

Operating cost analyses of long‐term care facilities

Thomas Madritsch, David Steixner, Herwig Ostermann, Roland Staudinger

After salary and wages, facility and real estate expenditure are the largest cost items in the semi‐public sector. Especially, for long‐term care facilities, there is high‐saving…

Building an effective team for business

Michael Pitt