Provision of facilities management services in Sri Lankan commercial organisations: Is in-house involvement necessary? Available to Purchase

B.A.K.S Perera is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Building Economics of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. She is interested in sustainability and risk management related with the construction industry. Perera is an active member of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, United Kingdom.

M.H.S. Ahamed was a student of Facilities Management at the Department of Building Economics of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His interests are mainly into facilities delivery and performance evaluation.

Raufdeen Rameezdeen is Senior Lecturer of Construction Management at the School of Natural & Built Environments, University of South Australia. His research interests are in the areas of sustainable construction, construction accidents and disaster reconstruction.

Nicholas Chileshe is Senior Lecturer in Construction and Project Management at the School of Natural and Built Environment of the University of South Australia. He is also the Research Education and Portfolio Leader and Program Director responsible for the Doctorate in Project Management. Nicholas obtained his PhD in Construction Management from the Sheffield Hallam University in 2004. Dr Chileshe is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building (FCIOB), Chartered Construction Manager, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building, Fellow of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers, Chartered Building Engineer, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Member of the Chartered Institute of Management and Member of the Australian Institute of Project Management. Nicholas’s ongoing professional involvement includes membership and Chair of the Australasian Education Committee and the CIOB International Accreditation Panel; and as acted as PhD External Examiner for Universities in South Africa and Australia. He also regularly reviews proposals for the National Research Foundation in South Africa and the Higher Education Academy (UK). His current research interests include total quality management, supply chain management, reverse logistics, sustainability, construction management, risk and value management, project management and project success.

M. Reza Hosseini is Lecturer in Construction Management and Built Environment at Deakin University in the School of Architecture. M Reza is also currently a PhD candidate and Research Assistant in Construction Management at the University of South Australia with experiences of conducting many research projects for the Iranian Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. He has received a BSc in civil engineering and an MSc in engineering and construction management. His main research interests include virtual teams, reverse logistics, innovation diffusion, information and communications technology and productivity within the construction industry.