... maintenance Sustainable design Building life cycle Maintenance management Design for maintenance Maintenance programmes The concept of building maintenance is to keep, restore or improve every facility to an agreed standard, and the benefit of having effective maintenance is to obtain a maximum...

... on their scope: Neural network Assessment Sustainable design DTREG software General regression neural network Preliminary design In a traditional sense, facilities management (FM) has been regarded as management of activities concerning cleaning, caretaking, repairs and maintenance (Atkin...

... and Baxter, 2008 ; Oklahoma State University, 2008 ; Raheel, 1986 ; The Carpet and Rug Institute, n.d. b ; Ulrich and Lee, 2008 ; World Floor Covering Association, 2010). Sustainable design Building materials Flooring Textiles are critical to societies. Beyond their functionality...

... Tower blocks United Kingdom Sustainable design Buildings High rise blocks account for 5 per cent to 6 per cent of public sector housing in the UK. Many of these blocks are now more than 20 years old and need major refurbishment. The costly alternative in many cases is demolition and re...

...Kam‐din Wong; Qing Fan Purpose Because of global environmental concerns, sustainable design has become a mainstream building design goal in recent years. Sustainable development is even more urgent in the light of global climate change. This paper aims to examine the contributions which building...

... adoption, and the professionals' perceptions of their initial cost and level of complexity, may encourage others to consider using systems that introduce sustainability concepts into their design and construction process. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Sustainable design Costs...

... Publishing Limited 2007 Sustainable design Construction Office buildings Environmental management Tarja Häkkinen can be contacted at: tarja.hakkinen@vtt.fi Knowledge work proceeds through intelligent processes instead of physical work. Knowledge work includes tasks like planning...

... sustainable and reusable building construction and management methods? Peter A. Bullen can be contacted at: p.bullen@curtin.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Sustainable design Buildings Industrial property Australia The change to reuse and adaptation...

... to support our organisations, their strategy and operations; and local communities and their economies. Facilities Sustainable design Property management Social inclusion Facilities management has been primarily seen from business, industry and public service perspectives, and in different...

... Sustainable design Maintenance Knowledge management Perception Training Hong Kong Sustainable development is unattainable without sustainable buildings. Interestingly, although many descriptions on what is a “sustainable building” have been offered (John et al., 2005), there has been...