European directive for tendering architectural services; a too strict interpretation by Dutch local authorities?

Building regulations from an European perspective

During the last ten years OTB has studied building regulations in various European countries. Developments in the building regulatory systems are being placed within the context of general trends in the regulatory sciences, particularly with reference to Europeanization studies. Within the regulatory sciences, there is broad consensus about the...

Shifting responsibilities in building control in the Netherlands: A historical perspective

Between marketing and financial support: Dutch municipal policy instruments to improve the quality of private housing stock

Dutch municipalities are faced with an ageing private housing stock, of which parts show a diversity of quality backlogs, including their energy quality. Dutch municipalities are in the process of developing a combination of communicative and economic policy instruments to seduce private homeowners to invest in their dwellings’ quality....

Building regulations for housing quality in Europe

Waking a sleeping giant: Policy tools to improve the energy performance of the existing housing stock in the Netherlands

The Netherlands like many European countries has issued ambitious national targets to achieve climate change goals. It is recognised that to achieve these goals the energy saving potential idling in the existing housing stock must be exploited. To date the Dutch response is largely defined by the typical national repertoire of policy instruments...

Building regulations for the improvement of the quality of the housing stock

A comparison of technical requirements for housing in Europe

Effects of the life span of products in LCA - A case study for dwellings

The growing importance of an accurate system of building control

Systems of building control have a long history. Technical regulations and control seems to be the subject of an ongoing debate between, on the one hand, those in favour of deregulation and reducing the administrative burden and, on the other hand, new quality demands that require government intervention. Currently in the Netherlands, both sides...

Energy saving goals require reform of building regulations and control

Quality of social housing in the Netherlands and England