...George Cairns Promotes the notion that the emergent field of facility/facilities management (FM) requires a philosophical basis, where philosophy refers not to esoteric, academic abstraction, but to the basic theory and general principles of knowledge that underpin everyday activity. Argues...

...Dilanthi Amaratunga; David Baldry The application of performance measurement procedures can provide major benefits to organisations. The broad performance measurement need for management applies in a facilities management (FM) context when FM is considered as a subset of general management...

... of these highly complex organizations worldwide are in need of CAD standards. These standards are instrumental in consolidating information; originating from operational and academic units of a university, they constitute the backbone of the Facility Management Information System (FMIS) and eliminate necessary...

... support service to underpin a wide variety of transient work patterns, undertaken at different venues and at dispersed locations. In the future, facilities management may need to move nearer to the core of an organisation’s business in order to support the “free‐style” deployment of its human resources...