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Facilities management at the crossroads

By: Language: English Series: Property Management ; 10(3) Summer 1992, 196-203(10)Publication details: 1992Subject(s): Summary: Notes how the growing importance of IT, reducing the importance of office location, and increasing costs of personnel, concentrating efforts on the work environment, have both boosted the facilities manager`s prestige. Defines the manager`s role in anticipating changing demands on the office building and looks particularly at intelligent buildings before concluding with new issues for the facilities manager to tackle.

Notes how the growing importance of IT, reducing the importance of office location, and increasing costs of personnel, concentrating efforts on the work environment, have both boosted the facilities manager`s prestige. Defines the manager`s role in anticipating changing demands on the office building and looks particularly at intelligent buildings before concluding with new issues for the facilities manager to tackle.