Mr Peter McLennan
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies is the source of some of the most outstanding minds and most influential research in the field of the built environment. Our work tackles some of the greatest challenges facing mankind, in areas such as health, sustainable cities and human well-being. We are part of The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment.
Profile
Biography
Peter McLennan is MSc Course Director in Facility and Environment Management at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL (University College London). He did his post graduate work at Cornell University. His principle expertise is in teaching, research and consultancy through applied methods and techniques for creating and evaluating workplace and occupancy performance within the context of facility management and use. His projects are best described as applications research working in collaboration with commercial organisations. He is co-editor of Facility Management: risks and opportunities, which highlights this perspective.
Research Summary
Peter McLennan’s principle expertise is in teaching, research and consultancy through applied methods and techniques for creating and evaluating workplace and occupancy performance within the context of facility management and use. He has developed a number of empirically based commercial applications to assess, measure, and predict occupancy requirements, particularly the spatial aspects of occupancy, for building users. This approach was formalised in part as a research assistant on three EPSRC projects at UCL: adaptability potential of buildings (GR J99575) created a comparative tool for assessing the potential use of buildings; selective demolition (GR L14107), which reviewed the spatial reconfiguration during the change process; and refurbishment in occupation (GR L13971), which created a management framework for profiling health and safety risks. In addition, there are a number of commercially based projects under various consultancy arrangements looking at space and its use, primarily in office buildings through research contracts with RBS and the BCO. All of this work involves understanding occupancy, the use of space to support human activities of buildings through time from planning to operations. His projects are best described as applications research working in collaboration with commercial organisations. He is co-editor of Facility Management: risks and opportunities, which highlights this perspective.
Research outputs
| The role and effectiveness of a formal sustainability policy in facilities management | 2010 | Price S,PITT M,Marmot A,Tucker M,McLennan P,Ucci M |
| British Council for Offices: Occupier Density Study - Summary Report | 2008 | McLennan PS |
| Service Quality Matters: developing and applying the FM service value chain. | 2007 | van Ree H,McLennan P |
| Mapping our Lives: Spatio-temporal Data Mining in an Office Environment | 2007 | de Vallejo IL,Conroy-Dalton R,McLennan P |
| Facilities Management Service Quality Indicators - Benefiting Supplier and Customer | 2006 | van Ree H,McLennan P |
| Service operations management as a conceptual framework for facility management | 2004 | McLennan P |
| Introducing new working practices | 2003 | McLennan P |
| When the show must go on | 2003 | McLennan P |
| The route to professional status | 2003 | McLennan P |
| A strategy for change | 2003 | McLennan P |
