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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Facilities Management"”.
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Characterizing Building Digital Twins for Facilities Management
… Of the building life cycle phases, building facilities management (FM) is responsible for considerable costs and energy consumption and has potential for improvement through DT implementation. Along with increased building information modeling (BIM) implementation, recent advances in data …
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The Adoption of Building Information Modelling in Facilities Management
… documents are no longer suitable for managing facilities manager’s task. With the late delivery of non-digital data, it is challenging for facilities managers to assess the quality of information and whether the information they need is contained in the handover data. Emerging open Building …
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Sustainable facilities management with the support of building information modelling
… have the biggest environmental impact. However, facilities managers often operate on the edge of sustainable compliance and do not implement initiatives to enhance sustainability. The aim of this research is to develop a sustainability measurement system specific to facilities management and a …
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People matter: a hermeneutic exploration of reflective practice and facilities management
… the use of reflective practice in the context of facilities management. This study engaged facilities management practitioners who had all completed a part time undergraduate certificate in facilities management, delivered via block study and distance learning. The research drew on their life …
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CAD-GIS Interoperability Issues for Facilities Management: Enabling Inter-Disciplinary Workflows
… or enhancing a number of applications such as facilities management, asset tracking, class scheduling, and others.</p> <p>The goal of this thesis was to better understand the integration between CAD oriented drawing environments and GIS, to devise tools for incorporating CAD building floor plan …
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Performance measurement in facilities management - the case of outsourced service contracts
… topic in manydisciplines including Facilities Management (FM). This thesis focuses on FM serviceperformance and specifically addresses an identified gap in knowledge about measurementof performance in outsourced service contracts in FM.Conceptual and practical performance measurement …
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Investigating The Implementation Of Facilities Management Strategies Within The Namibian Government
Research on Facilities Management (FM) indicates that it is able to positively influence the performance and success of organisations in various ways including strategy, culture, resource control, service provision, supply chain management and change management. Although FM has developed as a best …
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The impact of strategic Facilities Management on the Employee Value Proposition
Facilities Management (FM) has and continues to evolve strongly as a strategic function in many organisation. Many organisations have also recognised the importance of human capital for the success of their operations. This is why the concept of Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is growing in …
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Investigating The Implementation Of Facilities Management Strategies Within The Namibian Government
Research on Facilities Management (FM) indicates that it is able to positively influence the performance and success of organisations in various ways including strategy, culture, resource control, service provision, supply chain management and change management. Although FM has developed as a best …
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Framework for strategic system planning for facilities management in the health sector
Facilities Management (FM) is commonly defined as managing physicalworkplace and property, which have a direct link with design and constructionactivities in one aspect, and managing services and performance of resourcesin the organisation as another. Aspects of FM are inter-related and …
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Development of a facilities management framework for sustainable building practices in Nigeria
… design for ventilation, natural lighting, energy management, water management, waste management and other building services. These buildings under perform in relation to the purpose for which they have been built. Building users often complain that the buildings do not provide the required …
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Correlation Between Financial Support of Facilities Management and Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions
… the relationship between financial support for facilities management (FM) and accreditation outcomes among public higher education institutions in the southern region of the United States accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Using a …
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The Role of Facilities Management in the Control of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)
… knowledge and evidence-base of the role of Facilities Management (FM) in the control of HAI. Therefore, the main aim of this research was to investigate the role of FM in the control of HAI. The focus of the study is on domestic services. The research methodology of the study employed both …
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Determining the best options for facilities management (FM) service delivery in UK shopping centres
… research attempted to understand and explore how facilities management services in UK shopping centres have been managed and services delivered. This includes looking at how shopping centre managers determined the best options of FM service delivery in the shopping centres. As the research …
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Raising the Profile of Facilities Management (FM) in Healthcare – Managing Performance of Infection Control
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are a major problem in the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom (UK). One reason for this is the failure of healthcare officials to tackle the root causes of HAIs. There is sufficient epidemiological evidence showing that HAIs can occur because of, …
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Urban facilities management as a systemic process to achieve urban sustainability in South Africa
A key challenge for urban facilities management (UFM) is to identify ways to promote sustainable urban development at a community/precinct level. One potential approach is via the application of sustainable community assessment/rating tools which have seen increased popularity amongst urban …
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Facilities Management ‘Cultural Fit’ and the Socialisation of External Service Provider Employees in Client Organisations
… to knowledge is creating the awareness that facilities management (FM) departments and organisations do not consciously socialise external service provider staff into the client workplace and the development of a framework that can successfully achieve this integration. To provide a solid …
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Investigation into how facilities management has evolved to support the hybrid and remote workplace trends
… of this dissertation was to investigate how the facilities management profession in South Africa has been supporting the hybrid and remote work models. Furthermore, the study explored the management of hybrid and remote operationally and strategically, with an in-depth look into the equipment, …
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The market for self-storage in Greater Boston : an analysis of facilities, management and potential
… through site visits, fifty local self-storage facilities in thirteen cities are analyzed. Statistical measures, including hedonic regression analysis, show the particular facility and management characteristics that affect the price per square foot that can be charged for storage unit rents. …
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