Lean Co-Acting With Circularity?: An Investigation in Product-Service Systems in Rental Housing

Circularity is positioned as an alternative model to achieve sustainable prosperity. Lean construction highlights not only building delivery with less but also contributing to sustainable development. However, lean is criticized for reducing waste only within organizational boundaries while neglecting the impact of waste beyond the boundaries....

Circular building adaptability in adaptive reuse: multiple case studies in the Netherlands

Purpose: The application of circular building adaptability (CBA) in adaptive reuse becomes an effective action for resource efficiency, long-lasting usability of the built environment and the sped-up transition to a circular economy (CE). This paper aims to explore to which extent CBA-related strategies are applied in adaptive reuse projects,...

Circular building adaptability and its determinants: A literature review

Purpose: Adaptability is an inherent quality in building circularity, as adaptability can physically facilitate the reversibility of materials in a closed-reversible chain, also called “loops”. Nevertheless, positioning adaptability in circularity-oriented models could overlook some of the contextual considerations that contribute to the...

Genesis and nature of the Delft CREM model

Purpose: Since corporate real estate management (CREM) emerged in the 1990s, it has been modelled in many ways. The Delft model views the corporate real estate management function as a coordinator of four distinct accommodation perspectives. Although the model has been used in education and practice for years, there is no consensus on its...

Access-Based Consumption in the Built Environment: Sharing Spaces

The pressing need to implement a more circular economy has led to advancements in the research field. In the spatial context, sharing spaces and access-over-ownership models have the potential to mitigate the detrimental environmental impacts of space use. This study aims to adapt an existing theoretical framework on access-based consumption...

Searching for Flexibility in Corporate Real Estate Portfolio: Six Co-Working Strategies for User Corporations

The increasing competitive pressures and dynamic user preferences have resulted in a fast-paced and uncertain business environment. In the face of these circumstances, organizations are looking into alternatives to incorporate flexibility to become more adaptive and responsive to change. In this line, co-working, typically associated with...

The Toyota Production System: Applying the concept of waste in real estate management

Use of resources is one of the greatest challenges globally. Circularity aims to reduce resource input to the system and to avoid resource losses in the system. An extended concept of waste from the Toyota Production System is applied to real estate management (REM) to reduce the resource input and to manage for long-term circularity. The...

Identifying interior design strategies for healthy workplaces – a literature review

Purpose: It is widely recognized that interior office space can affect health in several ways. Strategic and evidence-based design, including explicit design objectives, well-chosen design solutions and evaluation of results, aid realization of desired health effects. Therefore, this paper aims to identify possibly effective interior design...

A study on office workplace modification during the COVID-19 pandemic in The Netherlands

Purpose<br/>Triggered by public concerns over office workplace safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study sheds light on the office workplace environment and aims to investigate how organisations respond to forces from the external environment (impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic) and how they modify their office workplace management...

The relationship between interior office space and employee health and well-being: a literature review

Health is a trending topic in the office market, yet scientific research on healthy offices is scattered. This study undertakes a systematic literature review on the relationship between the interior space of offices and physical, psychological and social well-being. The review identifies the characteristics of interior office space that have...

Reconceptualising CREM alignment to account for waste

Every business needs a place to operate. The management of corporate operational assets is called Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM). In the era of sustainability, smart use of real estate as the second-largest asset of corporations is needed. The purpose of the paper is to reconceptualise CREM alignment to feature the waste concept in...

Identification of changed paradigms in CRE research: a systematic literature review 2005-2015

Purpose: As corporations change their way of working, the importance of corporate real estate (CRE) management has increased. Hence, there is a need to structure the existing knowledge and to identify the latest developments in CRE research. This paper aims to identify the major developments and changed paradigms in CRE research in 2005-2015....

CRE stakeholder categorisation: Applicability of the four group technique

Since Freeman (1984) stakeholders are an established concept in management sciences and practices. This is not different in the field of corporate real estate management, where stakeholder analysis and administration became an essential tool for strategy design and execution. Delft scholars traditionally divide corporate real estate stakeholders...

From walls to experience: servitization of workplace

New ways of working challenge workplace management: increasing mobility<br/>and crossing of organizational boundaries require re-evaluation of<br/>both workplace design and service delivery. However, the processes and<br/>structures of workplace management are still traditional and managers,<br/>together with outsourced service providers, often...

IoT in the Finnish Real Estate and Construction sector: Market analysis

The impact of workplaces and self-management practices on the productivity of knowledge workers

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the impact of workplaces, which support concentration and communication, and self-management practices on individual and team productivity. The underlying hypothesis is that the impact of these variables on the two levels of productivity (individual and team) and the two dimensions of productivity (quantity...