Facilities management operates on the premises that the efficiency of any organisation is linked to the physical environment in which it operates and that the environment can be improved to increase its efficiency. This ...

As recently as forty years ago, the Facilities Management profession was relatively unknown in the built environment industry. Buildings were generally maintained serviced and cleaned. The Facilities Management profession ...

Facilities Management (FM) in the commercial building industry has been receiving increasingattention recently. FM is a multi-skilled profession which gives resources support for the core business because it concerns both ...

Facilities Management (FM) is a relatively new discipline that envelops many essential areas of the built environment. Facility Manager concerns both optimising building performance and ensuring success of the project. ...

The procurement by partial or full outsourcing of Facilities Management services is one of the options available for operation and maintenance of buildings. Since the recent past, this has been observed as a popular trend ...

People travel across the world for leisure, business, and relaxation purposes and seek short term or longterm accommodation facilities. With the increase in globalisation and rapid development in technology, the hospitality ...

High Rise Residential Building (HRRB) is a fast-growing trend in Sri Lanka. These are regulated and managed by the Management Corporation (MC). However, In Sri Lankan context MC is poor performance has led to various ...

Purpose The objective of this paper is to examine the continuing debate over the nature, scope and definition of facilities management and the implications of FM practice in the field of outsourcing for the development ...

Value is a function of risk and return. Every decision either increases, preserves, or erodes value (COSO, 2004). Given that risk is integral to the pursuit of value, strategic-minded enterprises do not strive to eliminate ...

Information plays a significant role in managing built environment facilities. These information are generated at different life cycle stages, by different parties, which also provide different values to a variety of ...