The infuence of the physical home work environment on perceived productvity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, Dutch employees were told to work from home as much as possible. Homeworking can have benefits both for employees and employers, as some experience a productivity increase and a better work-life balance. However, it is also harder for employers to measure and monitor employees’ performance and for the employee it can...

Longitudinal analysis of diffusion-weighted MRI with a ball-and-sticks model

Purpose: To increase the sensitivity in longitudinal analysis of DW-MRI data with the ball-and-sticks model.

Improving CRE decision making at Oracle: Implementing the PAS procedure with a brute force approach

Purpose –Alignment of corporate real estate to a corporation’s business strategy is a long-standing issue. In the past multiple models have been developed to support this process, but research shows that they fall short on certain parts of the CRE alignment activity, often lack transparency and fail to choose the real estate strategy that...

Meta-Corporate Real Estate Management: Some preliminary thoughts

Purpose: This paper advances the concept of meta-Corporate Real Estate Management (metaCREM) as an adjunct to existing knowledge work in the field. It argues for its existence and relevance, and suggests a number of areas where research with such a focus could occur to advance knowledge in the field.<br/>Method: The method is what might be...

Complexity regularized hydrological model selection

This paper uses a recently proposed measure of hydrological model complexity in a model selection exercise. It demonstrates that a robust hydrological model is selected by penalizing model complexity while maximizing a model performance measure. This especially holds when limited data is available. Here by a robust model, we mean a model that...

Life Cycle Costs of Dutch school buildings

There is a gap between investment and operating costs of public school buildings in the Netherlands. This gap is caused by separated responsibility for the financing of the accommodation for the primary and secondary schools. Municipalities finance the initial costs of construction of these schools and school boards are responsible for the...

Real estate portfolio decision making

In the Netherlands municipalities own a substantial number of buildings within their city which have been acquired to serve societal goals. However, some buildings might no longer serve these goals and could be sold or, conversely, buildings that could serve societal goals can be acquired. More than one decision maker decides which intervention...

Ways to study corporate real estate management in healthcare: An analytical framework

Since 2008, after 35 years of a publicly supported healthcare real estate budget system, Dutch healthcare organisations have become financially responsible for the profits and risks of their real estate investment. Furthermore the Dutch healthcare system is in transition towards a regulated market system with growing competition between...

Loss modeling and analysis of the nuna solar car drive system