Journal of Facilities Management: Volume 20 Issue 2

Factors affecting the number of building defects and the approaches to reduce their negative impacts in Malaysian public universities’ buildings

Ali Hauashdh, Junaidah Jailani, Ismail Abdul Rahman, Najib Al-Fadhali

The largest share of a building maintenance budget goes towards preventing or repairing building defects. Also, building defects shorten a building’s lifetime, impact the user’s…

Association between distribution centre design and contextual characteristics

Marina Cardoso Guimarães, Guilherme Tortorella, Carlos Manoel Taboada, Moacir Godinho Filho, Felipe Martinez

This paper aims to examine the relationship between the main decisions for designing distribution centers (DCs) and the contextual characteristics of the distribution networks.

Development of an inline inspection robot for the detection of pipeline defects

Ilesanmi Daniyan, Vincent Balogun, Oghenetano Kilter Ererughurie, Lanre Daniyan, Bankole Ibrahim Oladapo

The purpose of this study is to develop a robot for non-destructive testing of the pipelines to improve its reliability and reduce the loss of products due to cracks, corrosions…

The importance of servicescapes in Maldivian higher education: application of the stimuli-organism-response(SOR) framework

Subburaj Alagarsamy, Sangeeta Mehrolia, Margret Vijay

This study aims to use the servicescape model of higher education environments to measure the students’ perceptions of the learning environment (classroom) and the effect this has…

A survey on discrete space and continuous space facility layout problems

Irappa Basappa Hunagund, V. Madhusudanan Pillai, Kempaiah U.N.

The purpose of this paper is to review, evaluate and classify the academic research that has been published in facility layout problems (FLPs) and to analyse how researches and…

The impact of manager’s personality traits on project success through affective professional commitment: the moderating role of organizational project management maturity system

Aqsa Ameer, Farah Naz, Bushra Gul Taj, Iqra Ameer

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of conscientiousness and extraversion personality traits on project success. The relationship is mediated by affective…

How auditor locality affects audit report timeliness

Ameneh Bazrafshan, Simin Dehghani Madise

Despite extensive research on the determinates of audit report timeliness, there is limited empirical evidence on the effect of auditor locality on audit report timeliness…