Built Environment and Property Management - A Focus on China and Hong Kong is a unique collection of previously published articles that represent the very highest level of scholarship in the field. The articles published in this collection identify some emergent themes that have subsequently established themselves as key trends among academics in the field. These include the following:- Public-private partnerships- China's property boom and the resulting increase in prices- Waste management issues. This new collection provides an unparalleled insight into the hospitality industry and will enable readers to access the most important 'thinkers' active in this arena today.

This book provides an overview of the field of flow and heat transfer in porous medium and focuses on presentation of a generalized approach to predict drag and convective heat transfer within porous medium of arbitrary microscopic geometry, including reticulated foams and packed beds. Practical numerical methods to solve natural convection problems in porous media will be presented with illustrative applications for filtrations, thermal storage and solar receivers.

"High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, 3e, " is a comprehensive reference for managing security and fire life safety operations within high-rise buildings. It spells out the unique characteristics of skyscrapers from a security and fire life safety perspective, details the type of security and life safety systems commonly found in them, outlines how to conduct risk assessments, and explains security policies and procedures designed to protect life and property. Craighead also provides guidelines for managing security and life safety functions, including the development of response plans for building emergencies. This latest edition clearly separates out the different types of skyscrapers, from office buildings to hotels to condominiums to mixed-use buildings, and explains how different patterns of use and types of tenancy impact building security and life safety.

New to this edition:

Differentiates security and fire life safety issues specific to:

Office towers

Hotels

Residential and apartment buildings

Mixed-use buildings

Updated fire and life safety standards and guidelines Includes a CD-ROM with electronic versions of sample survey checklists, a sample building emergency management plan, and other security and fire life safety resources.

Facility management - as any profession encompassing multiple disciplines and integrating technology, people and physical space - is not only complicated but fraught with occasions to be exposed to various legal liabilities Successful facility managers need the ability to manage risk well. They must understand the various ways the built environment can malfunction, anticipate the most likely problems and protect the owner's interest in such a way that the building can be safe for occupants yet productive for business purposes. The FM must therefore know the major tenants of risk avoidance, including knowledge of possible legal obstacles. Legal Concepts for Facility Managers informs facility managers of their legal responsibilities and helps them avoid unnecessary exposure to liability. Each major legal theory will be explained and illustrated with charts or case histories. Chapter learning outcomes and discussion questions will help students recall salient information and are also intended to be used as homework assignments or prompts for classroom discussions. As with any legal textbook expressly written for professionals who are not in the practice of law, the objective of this book is to inform students about their legal responsibilities. This text is not intended for students preparing to practice the law. It can be used in any course teaching built environment professionals how to avoid unnecessary exposure to legal liability.

This insightful book poses interesting theoretical and methodological questions for the processes of spatial design and the treatment of workspaces in organizational settings of various kinds. The contributors expertly answer the need for practical field research on spatial settings and materiality in organizations of various sorts.Organizational Spaces explores a wide range of interfaces between built spaces and organizational actors, including the ways the former can potentially affect and shape the behaviours and acts of employees at all levels, as well as clients, other visitors and onlookers. Using innovative interpretive methods, the book provides detailed empirical and theoretical analyses of field research that focus on the meanings that organizational spaces can communicate to multiple audiences.Scholars and graduate students in the areas of organizational culture, cultural change and intervention in organizations, international business, design sciences, as well as in organizational studies more broadly, should not be without this important and highly original resource.

Facility location applications are concerned with the location of one or more facilities in a way that optimizes a certain objective such as mini mizing transportation cost, providing equitable service to customers, cap turing the largest market share, etc. Facility location problems give rise to challenging geometrical and combinatorial problems. The research on facility location problems spans many research fields such as operations re search/management science, industrial engineering, geography, economics, computer science, mathematics, marketing, electrical engineering, urban planning, and related fields. Applications to facility location models abound. Location of warehouses, plants, hospitals, retail outlets are classical examples. Applications are also found in the location of electronical components, warning sirens, sprinklers, radar beams, exploratory oil wells. These are less obvious "facilities." One should consider applying a location model to any scenario that involves finding a best location (or locations) for any object(s). This book Facility Location: A Survey of Applications and Methods pro vides a state of the art review along with references to important contem porary topics in locational analysis. The book includes twenty chapters divided into four parts, each dealing with a different aspect of location modeling and implementation. The book concludes with over 1,200 refer ences. The first part Methodology and Analysis consists of a survey of method ological and technical aspects of location analysis. Issues such as estimating distances, the error introduced by assuming discrete demand rather than continuous one, global optimization techniques, inference of weights, con jugate duality, and using Voronoi diagrams are reviewed."

Die Bauwelt sieht sich infolge der noch anhaltenden Corona-Pandemie sowie des Ukraine-Krieges mit einer Vielzahl an baubetrieblichen und rechtlichen Fragestellungen konfrontiert: beginnend bei der Frage zur Risikoverteilung bzgl. gestiegener Material- und Beschaffungspreise sowie dem Umgang mit Beschaffungsengpassen, uber die Anspruchsgrundlagen zur UEbernahme von Preissteigerungen, bis zur Betrachtung der Termini Hoehere Gewalt sowie Wegfall der Geschaftsgrundlage. Dieses essential gibt Orientierung in einer undurchsichtigen Situation und beleuchtet dabei die Kernfragen, die in der Bauwelt diskutiert werden. Das primare Ziel ist die Aufrechterhaltung des laufenden Baubetriebs durch einen partnerschaftlichen Umgang der Vertragsparteien sowie dem korrekten Umgang mit den baubetrieblich und rechtlich kritischen Thematiken, bspw. der Preisgleitklausel. Zudem wird ein pragmatischer Loesungsansatz vorgestellt, welcher nach baubetrieblich-sachverstandigen Aspekten zur Wiederherstellung des Risikogleichgewichts zwischen den Vertragsparteien beitragt.

Praxisnahe Forschungsarbeit, die sich mit den Potenzialen der Holzhybridbauweise fur die Immobilienentwicklung beschaftig. Dabei werden sowohl die Aspekte der Holzhybridbauweise im Kontext der Nachhalitigkeit beleuchtet, als auch im Rahmen von Experteninterviews die Chancen und Herausforderungen erfragt und ausgewertet. Ein konzeptionller Vergleich der oekologischen Auwirkungen der Holzhybridbauweise mit anderen Bauweisen und eine Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalyse dieser Bauweise runden das Werk ab und geben dem Leser umfassendes Wissen zur Konzeption von Immobilien in Holzhybridbauweise an die Hand.

Dieses Essential behandelt den Umgang mit Geruchten im Geschaftsleben, wie sie etwa im Umfeld von umstrittenen Sanierungs- und Bauvorhaben kursieren koennen: Es gibt dafur keine Patentrezepte, vielmehr ist jeder Fall gesondert und ganzheitlich zu betrachten; es gilt Ursachen und Auswirkungen ins Verhaltnis zu setzen.

Der Leitfaden beschreibt die Vorbeugung, Fruherkennung, Eingrenzung von Gefahrdungen - insbesondere Stoer- und Notfallen - im Tagesgeschaft der Wohnungswirtschaft. Das Spannungsfeld wird im Zusammenhang mit der derzeitigen Rechtslage und der Siedlungsentwicklung dargestellt; dabei geht es nicht um unternehmerische Fehlleistungen oder betriebliche Mangel, sondern um schadliche Einwirkungen aus dem Umfeld.

Ziel dieses Essentials ist es, Basiswissen zu Building Information Modeling (BIM) fur den Fachbereich der Geodasie und deren Nachbardisziplinen aus nationaler sowie internationaler Literatur zusammenzufassen und praktische Empfehlungen daraus abzuleiten. Der zunehmende Digitalisierungsgrad bei Bauvorhaben durch die Anwendung von BIM und das steigende Automatisierungspotential klassischer geodatischer Tatigkeiten begrunden die Notwendigkeit, betroffene Aufgaben- und Tatigkeitsfelder in der Vermessung weiter zu entwickeln.

In many public sector organisations, there has been little or no adoption of a proactive asset management strategy. Where an extensive property portfolio exists, this can result in poor overall utilisation of the portfolio, exemplified by excessive vacant property or properties not being put to best use. In such situations there is a risk that the building stock deteriorates more rapidly than expected, leading to expensive maintenance and repair charges. Lack of a proactive asset management strategy will impact on the services delivered by such organisations. Public Sector Property Asset Management covers all aspects of asset management in the public sector, including the overall concept, the development of asset management strategies and the implementation of asset management practices. It evaluates asset management strategies, processes and practices to show how effective management of property assets support business activities or service delivery functions. The reader will understand the importance of improving decision-making through the recognition of all costs of owning and operating those assets throughout their lifecycle, leading to improved business process activities or service delivery functions which greatly assist in meeting the social and economic objectives of such organisations. Written for all practitioners currently involved in asset management, the book will also be useful in the university environment, to those teaching, researching or learning about asset management in the public sector.

Im Facility Management (FM) bilden Daten die Grundlage fur die Erbringung verschiedenster FM-Services und sind damit Basis fur kosten-, qualitats- und zeitoptimierte Dienstleistungen. Voraussetzung fur den lebenszyklusubergreifenden Datenaustausch sind neutrale Datenformate. Niels Bartels beschreibt ein validiertes Strukturmodell, das einen immobilienbezogenen und neutralen Austausch von Daten des FM durch Erweiterung des IFC-Datenformats auf Basis von Property Sets ermoeglicht. Die Grundlage der Property Sets bilden mithilfe von Expertenbefragungen evaluierte Standardprozesse zu den FM-Services und Erfahrungen aus exemplarischen Anwendungen.

Der Facility-Management-Markt in Deutschland strukturiert und formiert sich. Immer mehr Anbieter dr ngen auf den Markt, w hrend FM-Kunden nach guten L sungen f r ihre Aufgabenstellungen suchen. Doch (noch) zu selten finden Anbieter und Anwender zu gewinnbringenden L sungen zusammen. Der Grund hierf r liegt in den neuartigen Aufgabenstellungen f r die Marketing- und Vertriebs-Manager. Die Regeln des Konsumg termarketings funktionieren im FM nur sehr bedingt. Dieses Buch bietet hier Unterst tzung. Es beschreibt Instrumente und Methoden, um M rkte zu strukturieren, Akquisitionen erfolgreich zu gestalten und Kundenbeziehungen gewinnbringend aufzubauen. Zahlreiche Anwendungsbeispiele geben Marketing- und Vertriebs-Managern geeignete Hilfen f r die t gliche Praxis.