Competence can be described as an individual's aptitude or capability to perform a task effectively. Competencies utilise job-related behaviour, motivation, and technical knowledge ensure that all employment needs are met. Therefore, there is list of competencies reserved for managing green buildings. However, still buildings not well managed, this closely related the level facility manager who...

The energy efficiency requirements of most energy-consuming sectors have increased recently in response to climate change. For buildings, this means targeting both facility managers and building users with the aim identifying potential savings encouraging more energy-responsible behaviors. Information Communication Technology (ICT) platform developed Horizon 2020 FEEdBACk project intends fulfil...

The aim of this paper is to describe an innovative Logistic Game® developed by the authors. It creates a competition between different teams in terms of strategic decisions in logistic and production problems in a real production system. The game is innovative in three ways. The first is the type of game. It is a game representing a production and logistic system, with the dynamic problems of a...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a process by which a digital representation of the physical and functional characteristics of a facility are built, analyzed, documented and assessed virtually, then revised iteratively until the optimal model is documented. The virtual BIM model is not only graphical design but also a virtual database which includes the management data. So the constructio...

This paper presents the results of empirical research conducted during March to September 2009. The study focused on the influence of virtual research and development (R&D) teams within Malaysian manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies in business, to find the effective ...

This paper will look at the industrial uses for oxygen. It will categorize oxygen using processes into: 1) the purpose of oxygen in the process and 2) the effect oxygen enrichment has on the overall process. The paper will also look at four methods of producing oxygen: cryogenics, pressure swing absorption, membrane filter technology and electrolysis. It will compare each against one another in...

Today grid middleware is complex to be used, the development of grid-aware applications is errorprone and the Virtual Organization grid paradigm contrasts with traditional HPC optimisation strategies based on resource stability and known cost models of inter-node interaction patterns. The authors analyse several aspects of grid adaptivity, and identify 5 roles: the active resource/execution man...

Safe egress is one of the key design issues identified by facility planners, manager and inspectors. Computational tools are now available for the simulation and design of emergency evacuation and egress. However, these tools rely heavily on assumptions about individual human and social behaviors, which have been found to be oversimplified, inconsistent and even incorrect. Furthermore, the beha...

Operations management of the New Mexico Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale (ACES) (a collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories) Trinity platform will rely on data from a variety of sources including System Environment Data Collections (SEDC); node level information, such as high speed network (HSN) performance counters and high fidelity energy me...

Fulfilling occupants’ comfort whilst reducing energy consumption is still an unsolved problem in most of tertiary buildings. However, the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) techniques lead to research this matter. In this paper the EEPSA (Energy Efficiency Prediction Semantic Assistant) process is presented, which leverages the Semantic Web Tech...