Introduction
Buildings’ use and operational phase are often overlooked in building research, public debates and policy documents on sustainability, except for the need for energy renovation. For instance, circular economy usually takes a product perspective with strong focus on design, production and end of life phases to reduce, reuse and recycle materials, while the use phase is seen as an empty or black box, where nothing happens in relation to circularity. However, the European Energy Agency has in a recent report shown that for existing buildings increasing lifetime and intensity of use have the highest sustainability potential by reducing the need for new buildings. Managing actions for this is an essential responsibility of facilities managers.
Facilities Management needs to reinvent itself to accommodate the ongoing global digital and green transformation and develop innovative solutions to spatial and service transformation to sustain the relevance of the industry. The special issue will present forward-looking research on the topic. Authors of papers from the 23rd EuroFM Research Symposium, which took place on the 10th and 11th June 2024 in London, are invited to develop papers further for the special issue. Other authors are also invited to respond to the call for papers with new, innovative research. The papers in the special issue should provide new research-based knowledge that contributes to the further development of Facilities Management in a world under transformation.
List of topic areas
- Transformation of Facilities Management for instance in the following areas:
- Digital transformation: Digital twins, machine learning, big data
- Green transformation: Circularity, resilience, energy optimization
- Campus transformation: New ways of working and studying, startup ecosystems
- Workplace transformation: Hybrid work, working from home, community building
- Service transformation: Outsourcing vs. in-housing post-pandemic, digital humans
Submissions Information
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Author guidelines must be strictly followed.
Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to "Please select the issue you are submitting to".
Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else while under review for this journal.
Key Deadlines
Now open for submissions!
Closing date for manuscript submission: 10th February, 2025