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...

Supporting strategic decision-making on the future campus with space utilisation studies: a case study

Purpose: Across the world, many universities are dealing with a pressure on resources, caused by both organisational developments and ageing campuses. Space utilization studies have a strategic role, providing information on how space is being used, thereby informing decisions about the type and scale of facilities that are needed. Design...

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,...

Identifying the influence of university governance on campus management: lessons from the Netherlands and Poland

The purpose of this article is to describe the effects of university governance on campus management based on the examples of the Netherlands and Poland. The study connected theory on campus management with a concept of five dimensions of university governance (autonomy, management, participation, accountability and transparency) into an...

Information to support strategic campus management in universities

Purpose: This paper aims to underpin the importance of the availability (or absence) of campus management information (CMI) in supporting universities’ goals. Design/methodology/approach: Four perspectives of campus management were used to develop a structured survey enquiring campus managers about universities’ goals, finances, users and...

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...

Smart campus tools: Adding value to the university campus by measuring space use real-time

Purpose: The objective of corporate real estate management is to optimally attune corporate accommodation to organisational performance. At universities, the dynamic process to match supply and demand is often hindered by difficulties in the allocation and use of space. This is a challenge for the Dutch universities and perhaps also European...

Smart campus tools: Executive Summary

Campuses, Cities and Innovation: 39 international cases accommodating tech-based research

The relationship between (technology) campuses and cities was a central theme in Flavia Curvelo Magdaniel’s doctoral research, which was defended and published in September 2016. During her PhD study she collected data of thirty-nine technology campuses, which has been considered worth a spin-off publication. <br/><br/>This publication contains...

Technology campuses and cities: A study on the relation between innovation and the built environment at the urban area level

This thesis examines the development of technology campuses and their role in stimulating innovation. The main result of this thesis is a model for understanding and managing the relationship between the built environment and innovation at the urban area level. This model developed mainly throughout an inductive approach in two core studies. The...

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...

Developing knowledge cities: Aligning urban, corporate and university strategies

The successful development of knowledge cities increasingly depends on collaboration between urban and regional authorities, knowledge institutions and businesses. Policy makers and business strategists do acknowledge the interrelated objectives of these actors in the knowledge economy and their different roles in a common network. They also...