INSPIRE Empowers Re-Use of Public Sector Information

Ready access to public sector information offers unprecedented opportunities for the development of new products and applications and to make existing processes more efficient and effective. These developments have perhaps the greatest opportunities in the field of geographic information. Although the Directive on the re-use of public sector...

Redesign - upgrading the building stock to meet (new) user demands

Financial and real estate crises and “new ways of working” reduce the need for office space. As a consequence, office markets become replacement markets without a quantitative need for new office buildings: new buildings drive out bad buildings. In the Netherlands, currently 14% of the office space is vacant, of which 60% is redundant or...

Redesign: Upgrading the building stock to meet (new) user demands

Financial and real estate crises and “new ways of working” reduce the need for office space. As a consequence, office markets become replacement markets without a quantitative need for new office buildings: new buildings drive out bad buildings. In the Netherlands, currently 14% of the office space is vacant, of which 60% is redundant or...

Use and adaptation of precedents in architectural design. Toward an evolutionary design model

For centuries, architects have re-used design precedents in the conception of new design solutions. Whether explicitly - as in the case of Le Corbusier, James Stirling and Jo Coenen - or implicitly - as with J.J.P. Oud, Aldo van Eyk, and Santiago Calatrava - this practice has led to very advantageous efficient, effective, and innovative results....

Recycling of road pavement materials in the Netherlands

This report deals with the Rijkswaterstaat's work on the recycling of road pavement materials in the Netherlands. We, the authors, were involved in some of this work, the rest of it - and some of the report - having been done by our colleagues and assistants. We also received help from the regional directorates of the Rijkswaterstaat and from...