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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Facilities Planning"”.
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Constraint-based facilities planning
… enforcing modification and renewal of production facilities much earlier than their lifetime. A model was built to assess the impact of manufacturing parameters on the effectiveness of the layout and the material handling system. A relationship was developed between variations in production …
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Educational Facilities Planning: A Systems Model
… sociology, a systems model of public educational facilities planning was developed. The model represents a theoretical construct from which design professionals and educators can better organize, understand, analyze, communicate, and research complex cause-effect relationships that occur when …
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Interstitial space in health care facilities : planning for change & evolution
… an acute and easily measurable form. Health Care Facilities house the greatest range of functions within their operations and are subject to continuous changes through their life spans, requiring specific design strategies aimed at flexibility. These functions include offices, training schools, …
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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and the role of facilities planning in force protection
This report examines the current role of facilities planning in force protection. It concentrates on a specific planning technique, Defensible Space, also called Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), as a method that planners and facilities Crime Prevention Through Environmental …
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Facilities planning and management for the large-scale event industry with a particular reference to a typical mega-event, the Hajj (the pilgrimage to Makkah, Saudi Arabia)
… the quality of (1) its programme, and (2) the facilities and services available for such an event, this study explores the importance of the facilities and services required within venues for large-scale events with respect to the actual users' perceptions. This area has been neglected in the …
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Town and gown bikeways planning : an analysis of bicycle planning within the greater University of Texas-Austin community and the City of Austin as compared to similar college communities
… cities and universities and their combined planning efforts for bikeway networks. An examination of the bicycle plans, use of bicycle boulevards and bike lanes, etc. will be applied to towns known for their university populations such as Berkeley, California with the University of California …
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Materials Recovery Facilities in the United States Virgin Islands: A Regional Facilities Location Model Study
… of scale associated with a regional approach to facilities location and management planning. Centralized solid waste processing facilities is an example. Island communities, however, surrounded by miles of ocean, are constrained to a fragmented approach to the facilities location solution. This …
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The rationale behind a small school district superintendent's decision to hire a facilities manager
… a district superintendent's decision to hire a facilities manager to perform the facilities management function. Two main research questions guided this study: (a) If hiring a facilities manager is not an option, how can smaller school district superintendents maximize utilization of resources …
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Primary care buildings: government policy, implementation and community involvement in facility planning and design
… of primary care, as new and extended facilities were required. Controversially however, instead of developing a centrally planned strategy to provide an equitable distribution of resources supporting comparable services to people in all locations, government policy enabled a disparate …
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Survey of administrative practices and certain elements relating to the status of secondary reading programs in selected comprehensive high schools in Indiana
… school corporations participates little in facilities planning, program planning, and evaluation relative to secondary reading programs.2. Communication relative to the status and effectiveness of the secondary reading program to the school board and superintendent was limited.
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An Investigation of Navigation Processes in Human Locomotor Behavior
… applications of this research are in the facilities planning and safety design fields. The individual's locomotion speed combined with the fine navigation time required determines the distance needed for visual recognition of the hazard and preparatory locomotor changes. With extensive …
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Government regulation of health facilities construction: certification-of-need laws and the implications for architects
… At the forefront of such change in the health facilities construction field is the growing concern with rising health care costs due in part to the uneven distribution and therefore uneven access to health facilities. This concern is placing emphasis on the needs within the health system as …