Exploring Facilities Management

Abstract

Dr. Benedict Dozie Ilozor is Management Discipline Coordinator for Architecture and Construction Management, and heads up Facilities Management for Built Environment Research Group, Deakin University, Australia. His areas of interest include facilities space planning, design and management, as well as practice management in architecture, design, and construction. His professional, research, and teaching emphasis is on cutting edge stratagems for efficient, cost-effective, sustainable, and harmonious built environments, from individual buildings to the greater urban environments. Dr. Michael Okoroh is Director of the Built Environment Research Group, and Program Leader MBA in Construction Management, at the School of Computing and Technology, Division of Design, Technology and Built Environment, University of Derby, United Kingdom. His professional, teaching, and research areas include facilities management, risk management, building refurbishment, and sustainable innovative developments. Victoria Hardy, CFM, CFMJ is Associate Professor of Facilities Management in the College of Technology at Ferris State University in the United States, one of the six IFMA Recognized Programs. Hardy is also Chair of the IFMA Foundation Board of Trustees. The Foundation supports professional development, research, and education in the discipline. Prior to joining the faculty at Ferris, Hardy managed cultural facilities and services for major institutions including Stanford University. Her primary research interests include emergency planning and recovery. This special issue addresses the subject of facilities management and its interface with built environment design and construction. This exploration serves to extend the debate on where facilities management fits within the design and construction process. The main theme seeks to better understand where facilities management impacts the design and construction process; how facilities management contributes to the derivation of value by users and/or occupants of constructed facilities; how consideration of facilities management during the programming, design and construction phases contributes to the reduction of failures in completed facilities; the role facilities management plays in the long-term successful performance of the built environment; how facilities management promotes or retards emerging building design and construction technologies; how facilities management promotes sustainability in the design and construction process; and the part facilities management plays in the change process of design and construction. Papers variously addressing this theme, covering recent research and developments that are both academically rigorous and relevant to practitioners, were peer-reviewed, and the best selected for this issue. Included are the following: • ‘‘Linking programming and design with facilities management’’ by Eren Erdener;