A new life: Transformation of vacant office buildings into housing

Office buildings are experiencing vacancy. This leads to financial problems for the owners and social problems for the community, e.g. vandalism and deterioration. A solution may be found in transformation of vacant buildings and changing the buildings’ program. In the Dutch situation, housing is a valid function, given the tight market. Housing...

Getijden van beleid: Omslagpunten in de volkshuisvesting

What can the political-administrative management of a government ministry do in order to bring about a substantial policy change? Public policy is shaped in networks that are characterized by pluriformity of actors, interests, perceptions, and resources, and by mutual instead of unilateral dependence among the actors. Uncertainty is high and...

Sustainable solutions for Dutch housing: Reducing the environmental impacts of new and existing houses

Cost effectiveness of sustainable housing investments

Home ownership: Getting in, getting from, getting out

The search for the most eco-efficient strategies for sustainable housing construction; Dutch lessons

Integrating health and sustainability in Life Cycle Assessment

Water neutrality and housing in the Dutch water-metropolis

Health performance evaluation of housing

The factor of time in life cycle assessments of housing

Sustainable housing in Europe

There is considerable variation in the extent to which environmental measures are adopted in housing construction in various European countries. Whereas sustainable housing is dearly part of day-to-day building practice in some countries, in others the topic seldom receives serious attention. None of the environmental measures which are...

European monetary, economic and political union: Consequences for national housing policies

Feasibility study for the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-Genera! for Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs

The structure of do it yourself activities; an application of nonmetric principal components analysis

ACSA: Conference book: Design Studies

In recent years, the Faculty of Architecture, Housing, Urban Design and Planning has been undergoing large changes in the training and research program mes. These changes followon from the signals received from professional practice, but above all from the desire of staff and students to design programma and organization in such a way that they...

ACSA: Visitors Guide: Randstad Holland

This publication is intended for American architects, who in the context of the Delft ACSA Conference 1992 would like to catch a glimpse of Dutch architecture. But at the same time it is a good guide for everyone who wants a one-day introduction to the urban agglomaration of the Netherlands. The Randstad is an attenuated urban area which stretch...