The use of knowledge transfer in campus real estate management about sustainability: An explorative study

The Dutch national climate agreement mentions important goals related to sustainability. The task is to reduce CO2 emissions by 49% in 2030 compared to 1990 and by 80 to 95% in 2050. To achieve these goals, every sector, including public real estate like universities, needs to contribute. This study focuses on the 14 Dutch universities....

A campus as a solution for the main location of the Landelijke Eenheid in Driebergen: Towards a campus assessment framework that will support the organization

Recently, campus strategies have become popular in managing portfolios of real estate. The growth of business and employment on campuses has continued unabated in recent years, leading to the conclusion that campuses are a popular location and an engine for new and innovative activity. Because of the thirteen added values that a campus can offer...

Smart Campus Tools 2021: Gaining insights from universities and other organizations to support the back-to-campus movement following COVID-19

On January 30, 2020, the WHO Emergency Committee declared a global health emergency based on increasing reports of Chinese and international cases. The unprecedented impact of COVID-19 has also affected education systems around the world. This means that more than 1.6 billion students, representing 91% of all students in the world, have felt the...

The Osservanza: an integrated adaptive reuse project

Historical campuses enabled post-Age of Enlightenment organizations’ operations and allowed them to adapt with times, supporting their processes of adaptive reuse transformation throughout the institutions’ recursive managerial cycles. However, the radical reforms which concerned these organizations since the second half of the 20th century,...

Developing a Smart Tool for Campus User Alignment

Context Digitalisation enables students to study virtually everywhere. However, demand for study space on the campus remains high and is even increasing. Additionally, students place higher demands on the quality and availability of facilities (Valks, Arkesteijn, den Heijer, & Van de Putte,  2016, p. 15). However, recent research on Dutch...

Gamified Campus Engagement

Gamification is the process of integrating game mechanics into non-game contexts - a website, an application, an online community - to motivate par- ticipation and engagement. Several studies have highlighted the benefits of gamification in several applications. However, its potential benefits in the campus environment still need to be...

Wi-Fi network-based indoor localisation: The case of the TU Delft campus

The current trend towards the use of smart tools within universities open up new opportunities. Insight in the location and daily rhythms of users within the building form valuable input for many decision-making processes within campus management. Unlike the outdoor environment, where the position is easily obtained through omnipresent satellite...

Exploring student housing as opportunity for vacancy at TU Delft campus

The need for student housing in the Netherlands is increasing due to the current economy and government measures. Furthermore, based on the annual report of TU Delft of 2010, a scenario has been sketched that shows a relatively large vacancy on campus. This research combines these two problems and explores whether vacant campus real estate, in...

Strategic Management of University Real Estate supported by BIM: An application to the real estate of the Greek University A.U.Th.

In this research the case of the Greek university Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is addressed, focusing on the university's real estate property, as one of its corporate resources. In this sense, real estate decision making is related with the performance of the organization. The main research question has been formulated as: "In which...