Print Email Facebook Twitter Conversion Potential Assessment Tools Title Conversion Potential Assessment Tools Author Geraedts, Rob P. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management) van der Voordt, Theo (TU Delft Real Estate Management) Remøy, Hilde (TU Delft Real Estate Management) Contributor Wilkinson, Sara J. (editor) Remøy, Hilde (editor) Date 2018 Abstract Building owners and other stakeholders can adopt different strategies to cope with vacancy, such as consolidation, rent reduction, selling the building, renovation, transformation and conversion to adapted reuse, or demolish and build a new building. This chapter discusses various tools to cope with vacancy by adaptive reuse. It presents an overview of the many factors and aspects that enable or hinder adaptive reuse by conversion of (office) buildings into housing, and how to assess the characteristics of the market, location, building and involved stakeholders. Furthermore, it presents the Conversion Meter, a tool to assess the conversion potential of vacant office buildings into housing. The tool is built up from a first quick scan using veto criteria (Step 1) till a more detailed scan of the conversion potential based on gradual criteria (Step 2). No single gradual criterion is sufficient to decide if conversion is possible or not; it is the combination of all criteria i.e. the sum that provides a valuable indicator for the conversion potential. Step 3 calculates a conversion potential score as a weighted sum of all criteria. Step 4 is a scan on financial feasibility. The final Step 5 is a check on possible risks and opportunities to eliminate these risks. The chapter continues with lessons learned from case studies by applying the Conversion Meter. Subject Adaptive reuseTransformationConversion meterAssessment toolsVacant buildingsRisksOpportunities To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:18b407f2-16dc-4042-b633-525c3d9720e9 DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119231455.ch7 Publisher Blackwell Embargo date 2019-12-31 ISBN 978-1-119-23142-4 Source Building Resilience in Urban Settlements through sustainable change of use Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2018 Rob P. Geraedts, Theo van der Voordt, Hilde Remøy Files PDF Final_Chapter_8_RG_TV_HR_ ... 0317_1.pdf 2.22 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:18b407f2-16dc-4042-b633-525c3d9720e9/datastream/OBJ/view