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Kocken, Maik (author)<b>Purpose</b>. Dutch universities must cope with evolving demand when aligning their real estate, facing uncertainty due to dynamic trends and a relatively static portfolio. The result is a strategy moving towards a resilient, shared and centralised campus, emphasising multi-purpose spaces. This shift involves shared building use, a strategy of...master thesis 2024
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Lagendijk, Dennis (author)Industrialised Construction gains traction as it is seen as a solution to create resource efficiencies in the Built Environment. In practice, this increase in industrialisation leads to an increase in standardisation efforts. Meanwhile, the Circular Economy is incrementally being introduced to the Built Environment. Circular Building is often...master thesis 2024
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Wu, Zhengyu (author)Have microdistricts changed Chinese people’s living ideologies? The appearance, spatial relationships and community organizations of Chinese Microdistrict have changed dramatically over the decades since the 1950s when the Soviets first introduced this concept. Meanwhile, the rapid urbanization and commercialization of the real estate market...student report 2024
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Kalb, Annelotte (author)On January 1st 2024, the Environment and Planning Act (EPA) took effect in the Netherlands. This legislation aims to simplify existing environmental legislation for spatial projects by combining them into one. An important pillar of the EPA, specifically of the environmental permit, is public participation. However, the safeguarding of this in...master thesis 2024
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Schmitz, Ruben (author)To combat global warming, it is crucial to eliminate CO2 emissions by 2050, especially since a third of global emissions are attributed to the building and construction industry. This sector's carbon footprint comprises operational emissions from daily activities and embodied carbon throughout a building's lifecycle. However, as buildings become...master thesis 2024
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Amrani, Khalil (author)The circular economy is an economic model in which resources are circulated in a closed loop by adopting the R-strategies (e.g. reuse, recycling, and reduce) to minimize waste and pollution. Repurposing vacant buildings, known as adaptive reuse, is in line with the principle of circular economy, as it contributes to the reuse of the built assets...master thesis 2024
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Zantinge, Daniël (author)In the coming years, the Netherlands is expected to face various climate change-related challenges. Until 2030, the Dutch government has set the goal for the development of nearly a million dwellings (De Jonge, 2022), whereby 600,000 dwellings are being carried out in areas prone to flooding (Deltares, Bosch Slabbers, & Sweco, 2021;...master thesis 2024
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Broekman, Jelmar (author)The construction industry is responsible for the emitting carbon, nitrogen, and particulate matter, which is harmful to the environment and contributes to global warming. Municipalities in the Netherlands plan to reduce emissions in inner-city developments to zero before 2030, for which a transformation of the already...master thesis 2024
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van Staveren, D. (author), Arkesteijn, M.H. (author), den Heijer, A.C. (author)Purpose: Corporate real estate management (CREM) is complex due to an increasing number of real estate (RE) added values and the tensions between them. RE managers are faced with trade-offs: to choose a higher performance for one added value at the cost of another. CREM research mainly deals with trade-offs in a hypothetical sense, without...journal article 2024
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Mlecnik, E. (author), Qian, QK (author), Straub, A. (author), Ersoy, A. (author), Remøy, H.T. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author), Hobma, Fred (author), Rooij, R.M. (author), Vande Putte, H.J.M. (author), van Bortel, G.A. (author), Roeling, M.M. (author)It is recommended to integrate specific management competencies in academic education to support the transition towards environmentally sustainable practices, particularly in the construction and real estate sector. This paper explores how architectural management education can integrate environmental sustainability within its current university...book chapter 2024
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Taylor, Zac (author), Aalbers, Manuel B. (author)The expansion of Residential Real Estate Investment Trusts (R-REITs) represents an important frontier in the financialization of housing and cities. This paper advances the literature on institutional real estate investment and corporate landlordism by analyzing how and where the 15 largest, publicly-listed R-REITS and REIT-like funds in Germany...journal article 2024
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Franke, Stijn (author)The global imperative to embrace a circular economy, underscored by concerns over climate change, resource depletion, and urbanization, has spotlighted the need for sustainable practices and waste reduction, within the built environment. This master's thesis within the context of the circular economy delves into the challenges faced by the real...master thesis 2023
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Frackers, Jesse (author)It is observed that both cost and environmental impact are underemphasized criteria in the investment decision-making process of Institutional Real Estate Investment Funds (IREIFs). The limited adoption of Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) within IREIFs' Performance Management Systems (PMS) hampers improved investment...master thesis 2023
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Zhang, Jasmine (author)The quest for environmentally conscious practices has become a paramount concern in the real estate sector, with a growing emphasis on reducing carbon emissions, as they are found to be responsible for a significant 36 percent of total global energy consumption. Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) play a crucial role in advancing energy...master thesis 2023
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Zomerdijk, Koen (author)This thesis concerns modeling residential real estate selling prices in a hedonic price model framework on a small spatial-temporal granularity. The research addresses the challenge of sparse spatial-temporal real estate data, i.e. many combinations of location and time with few or no transactions, by employing spatial dynamic factor models ...master thesis 2023
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Jansen, Dirk (author)Land subsidence poses significant damage risks to residential real estate, including pile rot, differential settlements, pluvial flood risk, and dewatering risk amounting tens of thousands of euros. In the Netherlands, the number of affected houses has surpassed one million and is estimated to reach two million, accounting for a quarter of all...master thesis 2023
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Müller, Thijs (author)The productivity and sustainability issues in the construction industry are leading to the consideration of systemic innovations such as modular construction. The industry's complex and fragmented structure resulting in an established practice of aligning knowledge with specific tasks impedes the adoption of such innovations. This phenomenon,...master thesis 2023
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Wardenaar, Neva (author)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....master thesis 2023
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Franssen, Anneke (author)Public cultural real estate is a type of real estate that is publicly accessible that beholds a (mix of) cultural function(s) such as libraries and cultural centres. Besides their primary function, e.g. lending books in the case of a library, they can also have the objective to behold an additional social function. Multiple cases in the...master thesis 2023
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van den Bogaerdt, Rik (author)Over the last decade, shared mobility has more often become a part of urban development. Studies are increasingly pointing at mobility hubs as a vehicle to deliver shared mobility, often from a viewpoint within the mobility sector. However, shared mobility hubs have to a lesser extent been studied in relation to urban development. As far as the...master thesis 2023