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Student Engagement in the FM Profession Through Mentorship

This paper presents a brief literature review regarding the need to increase FM education, a detailed description of an IFMA chapter mentorship […]

Pursuing Racial Diversity in IFMA Accredited Degree Programs

An action research study identifying strategies to increase racial diversity in the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Accredited Degree Programs (ADPs) through […]

Women in the Real Estate Industry

This article explores how younger, female graduates working as real estate managers and CEOs construct what the study refers to as “femininities,” […]

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Facility Management (FM) in Europe

The focus of the survey is to analyze the goals and planned actions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and interactions with […]

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 […]

Concept of the Chief Facility Executive

Through literature review, discussions with peers in online communities, and interviews by phone/email with FM and corporate real estate (CRE) executives, this […]

Catering Benchmark of Swiss Hospitals: Continued Research

This paper is a follow-up to the research entitled, “A Method to Benchmark Swiss Hospital Catering” by Hofer, Honegger and Züger (2013). […]

IFM Allocation Model for Support Services in Hospitals as a Basis for FM Driven Financing of Healthcare Real Estate

Based on European standard, BS EN 15221-4: Taxonomy of FM, this research was pursued to create a model for systematically developing FM […]

Quantifying the Effect of BIM and COBie for FM

This paper investigates the effects of using building information modeling (BIM) and construction-operations building information exchange (COBie) data for facility management in […]

Classification and Climate Zone Greenhouse Gas Inventory Benchmarking in Higher Education

Through analysis of archival data, this study establishes useful benchmarks by examining the measurable characteristics of climate zone, size and residential character […]