Study on the dormitory public facilities management using BIM

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsung-Yi Lin ◽  
Hsin-Yi Shih ◽  
Jia-Chang Huang ◽  
Yu-Lien Hou ◽  
Yun Yin Chiu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Facilities Management ◽  
Public Facilities

scholarly journals Facilities Management; There is Hope for a Better Tomorrow.

10.28945/3866 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 217-231
Author(s):  
Rebecca J Smith
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Deferred Maintenance ◽  
Additional Funding

Based on both historic and current study, the industry of facilities management faces an ever growing challenge that puts our public assets at risk. The outcry for additional funding has become universal. Unfortunately, the federal and state governments delegate responsibility for funding solutions down to the local governments. The result; our public facilities are suffering chronic deferred maintenance which leads to the increased cost of ownership, the increased exposure to liability and the decreased expected useful life of the facility. Additionally, there are further negative impacts due chronic deferred maintenance that affect those who occupy the buildings. It has been reported that occupants of the facilities have an overall drop in their performance as a result of poorly maintained surroundings. This affects all levels of education as well as employee performance within public government. Included in this paper are the results of a study that focuses on the current practices of public facilities management programs. The intent is to identify elements that either support or detract from efficiently operated effective facilities departments. Given the nature of this industry, both objective and subjective elements were addressed. Objectively, the organizational hierarchy and the associated communications pathways were identified. Subjectively, the lifecycle of the facilities mission was dissected and discussed through an interview process. Fifteen specific data points were addressed which included related to accountability, effective communication, data driven program development, allocation of resources, documentation of work performed, continuous training and education, and the use of technology. This study also served as a measurement against the historical performance of public facilities management practice. There have been decades of growth in public assets. During that time, innovation within operational practice along with technology offer new opportunity to organizations to address issues of efficiency that translate directly into a measure of effectiveness. Given the continued outcry for additional funding, it seems that there are challenges that continue to exist despite the innovations offered. This study focuses on what those challenges are. Further analysis based on successful models of public facilities management provides insights as to what practices, if adopted, may drive the lesser achieving programs toward greater effectiveness.

scholarly journals Towards sustainable public FM: collective building of capabilities

Facilities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 177-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Ramskov Galamba ◽  
Susanne Balslev Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Local Authority ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Collective Building

Purpose Public facilities management (FM) is in the unique position of aligning building projects and FM with the policies of sustainable development at societal level. However, sustainable facilities management (SFM) is an emergent profession, and there is a need to build a code of conduct for SFM in FM organisations. The purpose is to develop and test a workshop based concept for collective building of capabilities targeting in-house FM organisations, in particular public in-house FM organisations. Design/methodology/approach This research explores the role of public facilities managers and examines how an empowerment process can help FM employees develop collective competences for SFM. The methodologies used are literature review, and a 3–year-long action research process in the Danish local authority, Albertslund, which is internationally recognised for its innovative and green profile. Findings This paper describes the phenomenon of public SFM imbedded in societal steering paradigms and suggests a framework for a sustainable FM code of conduct. The suggested “Next generation SFM code of conduct” support the employees in taking a proactive strategic position in which translation between politics, strategy, tactics and daily practice becomes the basis for prioritisation and decision-making. The capabilities needed is FM knowledge (including FM know-how, understanding of technologies for sustainability and public governance); it is the FM code of conduct, and it is control of own practice to be obtained through strategies and planning, collaboration and education. Research limitations/implications This study is based on findings in a single local authority, why the findings are primary valid for concept development to be further developed and tested. However, the local authority of Albertslund is recognised as a front runner in green FM, why this case, compare to other cases, represents a relatively mature thinking in terms of FM contribution to sustainability at societal level. When this FM organisation express a need for developing collective competences for sustainability in FM, it can be assumed that less mature FM organisations needs it even more. The findings seem relevant beyond public FM organisations. Practical implications The produced framework for a sustainable FM code of conduct is useful for educational purposes as well as for strategic decision about FM organisations collective competence profile. The use of workshops for the building of collective competences might be useful for many other organisations and not only public FM organisations. Social implications Public FM organisations manage significant shares of existing buildings and can be a driver for societal change if they have the capabilities. This paper provides an answer to how these collective capabilities can be build within an organisational development process, through dialogue and collective reflections. Originality/value This paper is a pioneer in understanding the capabilities needed in FM organisations to take leadership in an integration of sustainability in FM processes.

scholarly journals Navigating the logics of changing public facilities management

Facilities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Svensson ◽  
Martin Löwstedt
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Context ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Public Facility ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Large Building

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how a multitude of demands and challenges faced by public facilities management organizations’ (PFMOs) particularly in relation to a large building stock in need of measures’ are acted upon and negotiated in practice. Specifically this study asks: What are the institutional logics (IL) that constitute the organizational context of PFMOs? How does an institutional worker navigate to create change in PFMOs? Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a case study of a public facility management organization and include interviews, a questionnaire, observations and organizational documents. The analytical focus is the work of a single actor, a project manager portrayed as “the navigator” and his institutional work (IW) of developing and implementing new organizational practices, to meet current challenges and develop a more “strategic” facility management. Findings The complex institutional landscape faced by officials in PFMOs enforce officials responsible for implementing and developing new practices to become navigators. Originality/value The findings offer a rich practice-based account of the day-to-day IW carried out by actors that try to navigate complex institutional landscapes, consisting of multiple and, at times, conflicting IL. Current challenges for PFMOs are to be portrayed as multi-dimensional and the actual work to transform organizational practices in this context is highly complex, unordered and messy. The findings point towards a need for new competences and roles to tackle current challenges; geared towards integrating different logics and perspectives.

Research on Public Rental Housing Facilities Management in Changsha

2014 ◽  
Vol 971-973 ◽  
pp. 2123-2126
Author(s):  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Zheng Zhang ◽  
Hong Jian Cao
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Site Investigations ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Laws And Regulations

Public rental housing is an important part of China’s low-income housing system. Through on-site investigations and questionnaires in housing projects in Changsha, China, it was found that the current public rental housing has made a great progress, but also exists a series of problems, such as: too much focus on the construction other than the management afterwards; the inefficiency of laws and regulations, the lack of public facilities, inexperience of management and so on. Suggestions are given as: laws and regulations needs to be improved; outstanding facilities management companies should be encouraged to join the management, providing diversified and personalized facilities management services, and more professional trainings and cooperation is urgently needed.

scholarly journals Security Analysis and Improvements of Session Key Establishment for Clustered Sensor Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiye Kim ◽  
Jongho Moon ◽  
Jaewook Jung ◽  
Dongho Won
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Key Establishment ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Information Infrastructures ◽  
Diffie Hellman ◽  
Near Future

WSN (wireless sensor network) is one of the main technologies in IoT (Internet of Things) applications or services. To date, several schemes have been proposed to establish a pair-wise key between two nodes in WSN, and most of them are designed to establish long-term keys used throughout the network lifetime. However, in the near future, if WSN will be used for information infrastructures in various fields such as manufacturing, distribution, or public facilities management and its life cycle can be as long as that of other common networks, it will definitely be advantageous in terms of security to encrypt messages using session keys instead of long-term keys. In this paper, we propose a session key establishment scheme for clustered sensor networks that is based on elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange and hash chain. The proposed scheme eliminates vulnerabilities of existing schemes for WSN and has improved security. The proposed scheme is efficient in terms of energy costs compared to related schemes.

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