Centre for Real Estate and Facilities Management
The Centre for Real Estate and Facilities Management is concerned with the engagement of people and the innovation of processes and settings in order to leverage the power of operational assets in transforming organisations.
Contact
Professor Edward Finch
Centre Director
Email e.finch@salford.ac.uk
The Centre is particularly interested in receiving PhD research proposals in the following areas:
- Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) and Pre-design evaluation (PDE)
- Building use studies
- Relocation and churn management
- Healthy buildings
- Ergonomics and workplace design
- Future workplaces
- Service quality and servicescapes
- Infrastructure management
- Business continuity management
- Computer-aided facilities management
- Asset maintenance and condition monitoring
- Outsourcing and service procurement strategies
- Sustainable FM
- PPP project procurement and management
- Human resource aspects, e.g.training and development, managerial skills