Guest editorial

摘要

The idea behind this special issue can be dated back to a whole day workshop that I organised on 7 November 2012 at our Centre for Facilities Management - Realdania Research (CFM), Technical University of Denmark. The title of the workshop was "Added Value and Advancements in FM knowledge". The situation was that I since 2009 had chaired a European research group in EuroFM concerning "The Added Value of FM". In spring 2012, this collaborative research work had culminated in publishing an anthology (Jensen et al, 2012). The purpose of the workshop was to discuss and possibly decide, whether we should continue collaborative research in the same vein or change direction towards other areas of joint interest. The nine participants were from CFM and our closest collaboration partners in Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and UK.