The aim of the Journal for Facility Management is -) to provide a high class publication platform for the international research community to foster research and researchers -) to connect research with practice. By fostering high quality research publications researchers and practitioners should get an insight in the state of the art of FM, the latest research results and thereby identify best practice and get scientifically based answers for their day to day problems. Therefore, the call for papers is always orientated on the fields of interest of the REUG, the mirror group of this journal. REUG is an international non profit association linked to the Institute of Real Estate and Facility Management of the Vienna University of Technology. The mirror group consist of around 2500 experts in the field Real Estate and FM worldwide. Their members have no influence on the selection process of the papers. To safeguard high quality and the state of the art of the publications the scientific committee consist of a large group of researchers from high class universities from all over the world and is permanently updated by the Editorial board. All this is done to take care of the quality and independence of the research findings and publications published in the IFM journal.