title: Measuring best value from 'refurb' projects.
abstract: Research at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University has identified the requirement for the development of a 'Decision Support Model' to 'facilitate and measure the selection of main elements and sub-elements within refurbishment and maintenance projects'. One of the major drivers, explains Grant Wilson, a completing PhD researcher with the University's Institute for Innovation, Design and Sustainability (IDEAS), was to provide a mechanism via which NHS estates managers, design teams, and contractors, could 'evidence and demonstrate' that best value-for-money had been pursued, 'specific to the facility in question, and in the context of its unique business case requirements'.
authors.affiliation: Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
authors.forename: Grant
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics* / Q000941:ethics; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000191:economics*; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D012984:Software; D006113:United Kingdom