CIB W070: Awarded Best Paper 1. Prize on First Try
Winning a CIB W070 "Best Paper Award" is a significant recognition of one's academic work in Facilities Management (FM) research, but winning for your first paper as a fellow, is considered highly rare. Tin & Knut Boge (co-author/supervisor) achieved this for their paper, The Norwegian proptech market - an incubator for game changers, at one of the leading communities in FM, CIB W070 Conference - International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
High Mileage for the Underdog Paper
Tin & Knut (co-author & supervisor) paper was an underdog in the conference, as their paper gave an overview of the entire value chain/linear process (stage 1.-8), and not just FM - which falls under the last stag, 8. Mainenance, Operations and Management (M.O.M.). This very same paper gained high mileage at the conference: it being Tin’s first peer-reviewed paper (1/3 articles of his article-based PhD), winning the top prize against 46 other papers, and not least, getting handpicked as 1 out of 3 papers to discuss 3 ISO standards-in-themaking, in the “Meeting of Minds” session between FM researchers and ISO experts. Tin was also questioned by Antje Junghans, a Swiss Professor, on the research design of the paper, followed up with the pivotal question: “Why not the Swiss proptech market?”, and Tin would remark that the research design is applicable to any country. In the acceptance speech, Knut would go on to say: “…this was unexpected”, with Tin’s speech being “…it is funny how a non-FM paper would go on to win Best Paper in an FM conference”.
Best Paper Review Process
All the papers went through a double-blind peer review, before being shortlisted to 8 outstanding papers for their relevance of the results, the methodological craftmanship and the communication. The reviewers had various preferences and had to make individual preferences, and these entered the systematic weighting to identify the top 3. In entering the top 3, the top papers got a second review by the International Advisory Board Awards. Given to one or teams for their outstanding contributions to a specific field of research. These awards recognize excellence in original research, innovative thinking, and the quality of expected impact of published work.
FM+ISO - Meeting of Minds
As mentioned, Tin & Knut’s paper was selected as 1/3 papers to be discussed between FM researchers and ISO experts. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was also present at the event, with an entire day dedicated to discuss 3 top secret standards-in-the-making - meaning 3 researchers would comment on their standards, and 3 ISO experts commenting 3 papers. They were as following:
Performance measurement and management ISO/TC 267 WG
Influencing organizational behaviours for improved facility outcomes ISO 41015:2023
Framework for applying digital technology ISO/TC 267
Tin & Knut’s paper served as the discussion material for the standard on applying digital technology, requiring FM expert Knut to sign a non-disclosure-agreement (NDA) before reading and critiquing ISO/TC 267, while Gordon Mitchell commented Tin & Knut’s paper. Any further details on this session will not be disclosed.
…well, we’ll disclose this: Knut got to quote one of his intellectual heroes, Douglass North.
Knut qouting one of his intellectual heroes, Douglass North. Photo was handpicked by Tin to illustrate how institutions (traffic laws) shape human interaction and behaviour.
Top 3 papers, from 1st to 3rd prize:
Phan, Boge. The Norwegian proptech market - an incubator for game changers. Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
Dixit, Kumar. Analyzing Temporal Changes in Initial and Recurrent Embodied Energy Using an Input-Output-based Hybrid method. Texas A&M University.
Besiktepe, Ozbek, Atadero. Choosing by Advantages Application Areas in Facilities Management: A Literature Review. Purdue University, Colorado State University.
8 outstanding papers (excl. top 3):
Peireis, Lai, Kumaraswamy. Establishing criteria for smart retrofitting decision-making for buildings. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Schmitter, Ashworth. Digitally Transforming Facility Management in Healthcare: A Systematic Review of Key Digital Technologies and Systems. Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
Wanigarathna Jones, Mulder, Borzi, Bozzoni, Festa. Economic appraisal standards for planning earthquake early warning infrastructure acquisition. Anglia Ruskin University.
Piantanida, Villa, Vottari and Aliev. Facilities components' reliability & maintenance services self-rating through big data processing. Politecnico di Torino.
Zahid, Klungseth, Andersen. The Role of Sustainable Project Management in Facilities Management. Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
The International Advisory Board:
Antje Junghans - Professor, Director of Institute, Direftor of IFM Institute of Facility Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Swizerland.
Göran Lindahl - Associate Professor/Head of Division Building Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Jan Bröchner, Professor em., Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Keith Jones - Professor, School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom.
Moacyr Eduardo Alves da Graqa, Professor, Escola Politécnica da USP, Brazil.
Susanne Balslev Nielsen, FM Expertise Director NIRAS A/S, Denmark.
About CIB W070:
CIB W070 is widely regarded as one of the leading research communities in the field of FM, with a long history of producing high-quality research that advances knowledge and best practices. CIB W070’s mission is to advance knowledge and best practices in the field of FM, consisting of a global. It also aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together experts from a range of disciplines such as architecture, engineering, management, and social sciences. The commission seeks to address challenges and opportunities facing the FM industry, such as sustainability, user experience and not least digitalisation - Tin & Knut’s main contribution in the paper.
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08.05: PhD workshops.
09.05: 1-4 paper categories.
10.05: FM+ISO Meeting of Minds.
11.05: 5-8 paper categories. -
Nora Johanne Klungseth, conference chair
Alenka Temeljotov-Salaj, co-chair
Carmel Margaret Lindkvist, co-chair
Sarel Lavy, Head of Scientific Committee
Tore Brandstveit Haugen, CIB W070 Coordinator
Duncan Waddell, Chair of ISO/TC 267 FM
Petar Luzajic, Committee Manager ISO/TC 267 FM
Merete Holmen Murvold, Host of ISO/TC 267 FM Plenary in Trondheim -
The conference proceedings consisted 47 papers categorised in 8 categories:
Digital transformation of FM (Tin & Knut’s paper is in this category).
SDGs and FM standards (Terje & Knut’s paper is in this category).
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