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Enabling Competitive Advantage Through Workplace Design

This article demonstrates how one company, an urban clothing manufacturer, leveraged the workplace for marketing, employee attraction and retention. Their new campus […]

Workplace Change Management: Communicating the Right Information at the Right Time

This article reviews the elements of a successful workplace change communications program and provides FM tips and tricks for managing a workplace […]

What Are the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Your Facility Management?

The idea of having someone else responsible for your firm’s FM obligations can sound appealing — just bring in “experts” to handle […]

The Strategic Facilities Management Organization in Housing: Implications for Sustainable FM

A guide to understand and manage implementation of sustainable FM in housing administration, outlining the roles and relations of tenants, owners, administrators […]

High-performance Buildings Need High-performance FM

Quality frameworks and performance management systems are recommended for high-performance facility mangers to align organizational strategy and the delivery of economical, safe […]

Space, Conversations and Place: Lessons from Organizational Development

Addressing the effects of space on cognitive processes, this research suggests that modern workplaces (with their emphasis on interaction) need to focus […]

Research Methodology for Building Automation Performance Index

This study describes a research methodology for quantifying a typical building’s level of automation-performance for developing an automation performance index (API), including […]

Is Your Office Stressing You Out and Making You Fat?

Investigating links between health, the built environment, and occupant behavior, this research highlights strategies for and benefits of designing, building, and managing […]

In Demand Facility Management Jobs

This article discusses four in-demand careers in FM, addressing the skills required for each career path and the educational/professional accreditations recommended to […]

Significant Parameters for Building Automation Performance

With the goal of defining a model-as-performance-measurement-tool for building automation systems (BAS), the study identifies and illustrates issues affecting BAS and the […]