Authors: Keith Alexander
ISBN-13: 9780419205807, ISBN-10: 0419205802
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: New Edition
Keith Alexander is Professor of Facilities Management and Director of the Centre for Facilities Management at the University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK.
Jan Brochner is Professor of Organisation of Construction, specialising in Facilities Management, at Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden
Brian Atkin is Programme Director for the Swedish national construction R&D programme, Competitive Building, and a Director of Atkin Research & Development Limited, a specialist consultancy.
Tore I Haugeb is Professor of Architectural Management at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU.
This text provides an overview of the interdisciplinary nature of facilities management. It discusses the framework within which facilites managers should operate and the key requirements of their task.
1 | Introduction | 1 |
Pt. 1 | Organisational change and learning : an introduction | 13 |
2 | Space place and people : facilities management and critical theory | 15 |
3 | Organisational change, representations and facilities | 33 |
4 | Space use among growth companies : linking the theories | 47 |
Pt. 2 | Innovation and the innovative workplace : an introduction | 59 |
5 | Why do real estate actors weight adaptability differently for office buildings? | 61 |
6 | Towards a more sustainable industrial workplace | 75 |
7 | The emergence of supply chain management as a strategic facilities management tool | 83 |
Pt. 3 | Performance : an introduction | 95 |
8 | Business-related performance measures for facilities management | 97 |
9 | Developing balanced scorecards for facilities management | 109 |
Pt. 4 | Towards knowledge workplaces : an introduction | 117 |
10 | The knowledge workplace : what really matters | 119 |
11 | Towards typologies of knowledge work and workplaces | 137 |
App | A European workplace knowledge network | 155 |