Is physical adaptability efficacious?: A research to reveal office users’ preferences for adaptable office space

Is physical adaptability efficacious?: A research to reveal office users’ preferences for adaptable office space

Smit, M.E.

Remoy, H.T. (mentor)
Koppels, P.W. (mentor)

Architecture

Real Estate & Housing

Real estate management (REM)

2012-01-25

Motivated by the increasingly noticeable amount of structural vacant office buildings, this thesis contributes to the existing literature of user’s preference to prevent structural vacancy. However, this thesis tries to shed light on the effects of different indicators (flexibility and partitionability) that influence the (physical) adaptability of a building. An important part of this study is the methodology used to measure these indicators. To prove that these indicators contribute to the user’s preference, a revealed preference approach is used in which 64 buildings are analysed over the last 5 years. The outcome of this study indicates that there is a statistical significant relation between structural vacancy and the level of flexibility of a standard office floor. The thesis emphasises the importance of factoring in adaptability indicators during the decision-making process of the acquisition of (new) office buildings. For real estate investors who are investing in office buildings, this implies that they should be aware of the effect of adaptability indicators on office user’s preference.

flexibility
adaptability
user's preference
office vacancy

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2012-02-01

Student theses

master thesis

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