Print Email Facebook Twitter FLEX 4.0 Title FLEX 4.0: A Practical Instrument to Assess the Adaptive Capacity of Buildings Author Geraedts, Rob P. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management) Date 2016 Abstract Adaptive buildings are green buildings. But the question is: how to measure green? A direct connection can be made between adaptive building and sustainability. Market developments show increased demands for flexibility and sustainability by users and owners as well as a growing understanding of the importance of a circular economy. Since 2014 a research project at the Delft University has been investigating the adaptive capacity of buildings. As one of the results several versions of an instrument to assess the adaptive capacity of buildings have been developed since. The last version FLEX 4.0, amongst others based on the support and infill theory of Habraken [1], is described in detail in this paper, including all flexibility key performance indicators, the different default weighting factors, their assessment values and some examples to determine the flexibility class of buildings. This paper thus presents a complete assessment instrument that can be used in practice. Subject Assessment instrumentadaptive capacitysustainableopen buildingflexibility key performance indicators To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:173e3a45-4856-4a18-9b60-844740a6ce1b DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2016.09.102 Source Energy Procedia, 96 Event SBE16 Tallinn and Helsinki Conference, 2016-10-05 → 2016-10-07, Tallink Spa & Conference Hotel, Tallinn, Estonia Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2016 Rob P. Geraedts Files PDF 1_s2.0_S187661021630741X_main.pdf 3.9 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:173e3a45-4856-4a18-9b60-844740a6ce1b/datastream/OBJ/view