Designing facilities management needs into warehouse projects

Facilities

Volumn 26, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 470-483

  Ling, Florence Yean Yng ^a   Edum Fotwe, Francis Tekyi ^b   Ng, Moxham Thor Huat ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c C and P Warehousing Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Design and development; Facilities; Property management; Singapore; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

EID: 51349158360     PISSN: 02632772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02632770810895732     Document Type: Article

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