Facilities Management Models, Methods and Tools

This Special Issue book reprint of Buildings presents research concerning models, methods, and tools relevant to Facilities Management, encompassing an editorial article and five empirical studies. Four papers are mainly qualitative, based on case studies of organisations and facilities, while one paper is primarily quantitative, based on a national questionnaire survey. Groen and van Sprang’s paper investigates hospitality and safety in relation to entrances and reception areas of corporate buildings. Echeveri et al. investigate corporate strategies for utilizing co-working spaces. Lahti and Nenonen present a study of the co-design of digitally and physically integrated hybrid working environments. Abisuga et al. investigate how facility managers handle user feedback to drive collaboration between facility managers and users during occupancy. Boge et al. present a study of the factors that are most important for building and renovation projects’ short-term and long-term value creation.