Transforming the Internal Audit Function (IAF): An Integrated MICMAC-ISM Approach for Unravelling the Relationship Among Challenges

The transformation toward the use of data analytics requires overcoming many challenges. Nevertheless, the interconnections between the challenges are unclear. Gaining knowledge about these interconnections is important to prioritize strategies that aim to stimulate the transformation. This paper unravels the relationship among Audit Analytics ...

User-Centered Shape Grammars for Housing Transformations: towards post-handover grammars

This paper presents a post-handover shape grammar for introducing inhabitants wishes in the transformation of individual houses of the Malagueira housing complex by Álvaro Siza Vieira in Évora, Portugal. The presented research includes a case study developed in the context of the workshop Gramática da Forma em estudos de habitação - análise,...

Restoration and transformation, the New Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Lecture on the research project and the book 'Restoration and Transformation of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam' Audience: Università degli Studi di Napoli Frederico II. Dipartimento di Architettura Dottorato in Conservazione dei Beni Architettonici e del bel Paesaggio.

Sustainability by adaptable and functionally neutral buildings

The continuing high levels of office building vacancy in the Netherlands cause a loss of income for building owners and - since the physical life span of the buildings is not getting shorter – an increase of obsolete office buildings. These buildings are deteriorated or even prospectless, with no perspective on future lease or reuse for office...

The New Transformation Meter: A new evaluation instrument for matching the market supply of vacant office buildings and the market demand for new homes

It is important to have an effective means of determining the transformation potential of office buildings that are unoccupied or are likely to become unoccupied in the near future. We need to be able to measure this transformation potential both at location and at building level, and it will be convenient to be able to carry out both a quick,...

The vacancy risk meter: An instrument for defining the lower end of the office premises market