Journal of Facilities management is specially designed for Heads of Facilities and Corporate Real Estate. The journal contains detailed investigation and case studies on how can facilities play a vital part in helping deliver corporate strategy. It features a combination of theoretical and practical articles. The articles also inform the latest cost reduction and process improvement initiatives.
There was an article called ‘Evaluation on indoor environment quality of dense urban residential buildings’. In the article the relationship between health issues and the author’s built facilities in Hong Kong is reviewed after the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Environmental examinations were carried out including thermal comfort, noise, daylight and interior ventilation quality. After long process of research and data analysis the result showed that most of the occupants (over 70% of 125 households) were tolerating higher air temperatures and dimmer daylight inside their residence. 
The other article I read, ‘The Impact of Office Layout on Productivity’, talks about how office occupiers’ productivity can be affected by the layout and design of the office. Office layouts include open-plan and cellular. Research was carried out to find out which office layout has better influence on occupiers’ productivity. Results shows that an open-plan and shared offices have negative impacts such as lack of privacy – people have difficulty concentrating, dealing with personal matters and colleagues’ annoying habits, while an non open-plan office is free of clutter and have more positive impact on the productivity of the occupiers’.
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