Water injection for dredging sediment in reservoirs – insights from preliminary experiments

Water systems to identify country houses landscapes: a method to organise heritage landscapes based on form, meaning or use

This paper advocates a new approach to group green heritage objects, like country houses and suburban villas, based on landscape features [1].<br/>Since the seventeenth century country houses and suburban villas were designed in relationship to important landscape elements, creating groups of country estates in so called country estates...

Opportunities and barriers for asset managers integrating energy flexibility

It is expected that future buildings will be able to manage their demand and generation not only according to local climate conditions and user needs, but also related to changing grid requirements. This development will introduce new challenges regarding asset management, which so far have not been explored. <br/>This innovation adoption...

Refitting Vacancy for the Creative Industry: A Strategy to Create and Maintain a Creative Community

The high vacancy rate in the office building market in the Netherlands is mainly explained by an overproduction of office space. The demand is expected to decrease further due to aging of the population, a changing economy and the decreasing need for space. A possible new end-user is the creative industry. The different working standards of this...

The changing role of Dutch property developers in urban development

In recent years Dutch real estate developers have been subject to some societal market trends that force them to change roles (Heurkens, 2013). The decreased demand for office space, limited debt funding, challenging user demands, stalling public investments, and increased competition from new companies, necessitate developer to deploy more new...