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Mellink, Max (author)While urban development is essential to keep our cities alive, existing buildings and structures are essential for communities to thrive. Moreover, this development needs to minimise construction waste and pollution, which means that it is illogical to demolish existing buildings that contain valuable resources. However, transformation is often...master thesis 2023
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Vader, Kevin (author)The housing market in the Netherlands faces two challenges which are the housing shortage and the climate crisis. Modular construction can help solve these challenges due to the many advantages that modular construction has over traditional construction. The advantages that are most related to solving these challenges are the reduced...master thesis 2022
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Brekelmans, Bauke (author)Our cities have to expand either horizontally or vertically to accommodate the growing population and urbanization trends. Meanwhile, our needs, demands and desires evolve over time. This makes sustainable development and adaptability more relevant than ever. However, a main problem with adaptability is the additional investment costs against...master thesis 2021
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Ree, Charmaine (author)This research investigated the determinant effect of public green spaces (PGS) on high-rise housing prices in Rotterdam. The growing population and tendency of people to gravitate towards city centers, have led to an increase in high-rise residential buildings in The Netherlands. It is therefore of high importance to optimize the integration of...master thesis 2021
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Demirel, Aysu (author)Sustainable development is the key solution to mitigate the impact of the 21st century’s major challenges such as the depletion of our natural resources, emissions that accelerate climate change together with the large waste generation. One of the largest contributor to the aforementioned issues is the existing building stock, in particular the...master thesis 2020
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PANOUSIS, MARINOS (author)A significant growth in the development of tall buildings has taken place within the past two decades, during which approximately 75% of the total existing tall buildings has been constructed. This construction boom has happened in alignment with the phenomenon of the increasing urbanization of cities worldwide. A tall building offers the...master thesis 2020
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Agricola, Ivo (author)Over the past years, construction activities in the Netherlands shifted from spacious greenfield developments to dense inner-city redevelopment projects. Approximately 50 per cent of the total turnover in construction is generated within the country’s large cities. It’s expected that this percentage will grow to 80 per cent in the near future(De...master thesis 2020
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Kougea, CHARIKLEIA (author)Context: The majority of buildings are designed as static objects, in order to serve a specific goal, a specific function. Although, this does not match to the contemporary and constantly changing way of living and working. Moreover, it does not match with the evolving technology, economy and culture. Thus, buildings that cannot respond to the...master thesis 2019
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Chiang, Tzu-wen (author)This research aims to investigate the height pattern and height determinant factors of Chinese skyscrapers. A skyscraper is a habitable structure that is taller than 150 meters, with more than 50 percent of the space occupiable (CTBUH, 2019). It is a widely used building typology around the world, especially in countries and areas with rapid...master thesis 2019
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Rovelli, Pietro (author)Buildings taller than 200 meters have been built since 1909, and since then, over 1500 have been built. Their development has followed unique trends in different areas of the world, with sudden surges followed by down periods. The property industry is a supplier of capital goods, so demand for property is inevitably linked to the demand for...master thesis 2017
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Moritz, M. (author)GOAL – The goal of this research is to examine the possibility of a decision support model concerning intervention strategies of vacant office buildings in Amsterdam. This quick scan results in the best future function and intervention for a specific vacant office building. This DSM is based on the market, the location and the building analyses...master thesis 2016
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Djoegan, C.E.S. (author), Van den Reek, D.L. (author)Despite circular economy being a phenomenon more and more are familiar with, the actual implementation is practically unknown to most. Especially in the construction industry, a conservative industry in nature, the translation of a circular economy seems to be absent. This research makes this translation, in which the changes in the financial...master thesis 2016
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Van Hemmen, B. (author)The discourse on circular economy is characterized by perpetual disintegration whilst there is a need for assessment and decision-making supporting models. This normative study proposes a model that assesses the extent to which interventions in the built environment are in accordance with a circular economy (CE) and discloses the financials...master thesis 2016
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Wolthoff, H.T. (author)Emptiness of retail floor space is a well known phenomenon in todays real life. In this thesis a programmatic intervention is suggested of how to reorganise the retail function of the city centre of Hengelo in order to diminish the amout of emptiness. Next to this new program typologies are introduced for the location so also suggestions are...master thesis 2015
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Koning, N. (author)De Nederlandse binnenstad wordt veelal geassocieerd met een grote concentratie aan mensen, een hoge bebouwingsdichtheid en een sterke vraag naar ruimte. De afgelopen dertig jaar is er dan ook een aanzienlijke bevolkingsgroei waarneembaar in de grootste steden (Fig 1-1). De aantrekkings- kracht van de stad lijkt steeds sterker te worden, op zowel...master thesis 2015
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Damwijk, R.M. (author)The built environment is one of the major causes of climate change that is felt around the world. Therefore there is an increasing global and local focus on strategies that address the causes of climate change and these strategies are continuously being designed and developed. The built environment contributes about half of all greenhouse gas...master thesis 2015