Quality and Efficiency in Educational Building

Many organizations in higher education are now having to cope with rapidly increasing student numbers, but only have a finite supply of accomodation to meet the new demand. Often their resources for maintenance and facilities management are decreasing as a proportion of their total budgets. Although space utlization and occupancy levels may appear low (rooms may often be empty or half‐full), these use levels are often dictated by invisible factors such as bottlenecks in timetabling.