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Scheltens, A (author), van der Voordt, Theo (author), Koppels, P.W. (author)Much of our industrial heritage lost its function in the transition from an industrial to a more service-based economy. Meantime, changing consumer preferences have shortened the functional and economic life cycle of buildings to such an extent that many have become vacant and obsolete. Developers tend to prefer to demolish such buildings and...conference paper 2009
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Hellegers, P.J.G.J. (author), Soppe, R. (author), perry, C.J. (author), Bastiaanssen, W.G.M. (author)This paper demonstrates that combining spatial land surface data with socio-economic analysis provides a number of indicators to strengthen decision making in integrated water and environmental management. It provides a basis to: track current water consumption in the Inkomati Basin in South-Africa; adjust irrigation water management; select...journal article 2009
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Faber, N.R. (author), Jorna, R.J. (author)Knowledge processes, such as knowledge sharing, knowledge use, knowledge creation or knowledge distribution are core components in sustainable innovation (Jorna, 2006), at both the individual and the group level. Knowledge creation refers to innovation and requires the possibility of learning (single loop, double loop or otherwise). A...conference paper 2010
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Van der Wal, P.J. (author)This research focuses on opportunities and opportunity management in the planning and realization phase of infrastructure projects. Opportunities are uncertain situations that can be exploited by the project team in order to create added value for the client and opportunity management is the systematic identification, evaluation and exploitation...master thesis 2011
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Van Meurs, W.M. (author)This research provides insight in the potential of local renewable heating systems. Local renewable heating systems are energy installations that make use of a renewable energy source and can supply heat, for space- and water heating, to the built environment in the direct vicinity of the installation. The main question of research that is...master thesis 2011
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Van Boeijen, A.G.C. (author), Stappers, P.J. (author)This paper presents the results of a qualitative study about how design students cope with culture in the i-do (international design opportunity) series of international design workshops in Hong Kong. We wanted to learn three things. (1) To what extent do the design students from different nations share common cultural values? (2) what...conference paper 2012
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Berghuis, M.E. (author)Based on the research to the opportunities in the civil engineering sector, there can be concluded that the amount and the types of the opportunities differs per project category. The most striking aspect in the elaboration of the different opportunities is that the most influential opportunities are (partly) driven by impacts on external...master thesis 2013
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Haagen, R.A.G.M. (author)A framework to assess business opportunities is being developed in this document. The framework is designed to solve the problem that the decision of managers to exploit a certain technology by means of a certain strategy is often based upon a feeling rather than a set of rational criteria. Therefore these decisions are hard to codify, discuss...master thesis 2013
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Remøy, H.T. (author), van der Voordt, Theo (author)Conversion into housing is a way of adapting and reusing vacant office buildings. Former research has shown possibilities for this type of conversion, and has delivered instruments for determining the conversion potential of vacant offices. While adaptation and renovation of outdated offices can prove to be a successful real estate strategy,...journal article 2014
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Bisschops, B. (author)According to current theory, corporate real estate departments should choose a limited set of personalized Key Performance Indicators that are based on their own strategy and context. In general, organizations are often found to lack an objective assessment and rationale for the selection of these KPIs. Although previous studies have made an...master thesis 2014
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Akerboom, S. (author), Scholten, D.J. (author)In the Netherlands, household end-users of electricity face several legal restrictions related to the use of their solar photovoltaic installation. The three main restrictions are the demands of the license of supply, unclarity as to program responsibility and regulated distribution tariffs. This paper analyzes these legal challenges further in...conference paper 2014
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Heim, N. (author)In order to realise more focus on quality in tenders the construction industry must move away from the low-bid arena characterised by specifications, qualifications, standards and management and inspection by the client. New procedures must be adopted to react on the need for harmonized procurement policies for public contracting authorities,...master thesis 2015
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Arecco, P.H.E. (author)Waterborne transport infrastructures play a crucial role in global integration, and ports are key components to materialise this amalgamation. However they are constantly challenged to keep fulfilling their functions in a changing environment. Port of Rotterdam, the largest port in Europe and the Western hemisphere too, faces those challenges on...master thesis 2015
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Geraedts, Rob P. (author), van der Voordt, Theo (author), Remøy, H.T. (author)Building owners and other stakeholders can adopt different strategies to cope with vacancy, such as consolidation, rent reduction, selling the building, renovation, transfor-mation and conversion to adapted reuse, or demolish and build a new building. This paper dis-cusses a new developed tool to cope with vacancy by adaptive reuse. It presents...conference paper 2017
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Krysiński, Dawid (author)The main goal of this paper is to identify barriers and opportunities for creating the circular business models in the EU C&DW sector. Having in mind this fact, author of the paper describes market, social, governance and regulatory failures which may limit opportunities for achieving market success in the EU C&DW sector. The presentation will...conference paper 2017
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Geraedts, Rob P. (author), van der Voordt, Theo (author), Remøy, H.T. (author)Building owners and other stakeholders can adopt different strategies to cope with vacancy, such as consolidation, rent reduction, selling the building, renovation, transformation and conversion to adapted reuse, or demolish and build a new building. This chapter discusses various tools to cope with vacancy by adaptive reuse. It presents an...book chapter 2018
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Jones, Brent (author)Services oriented architecture (SOA) has been used in several pilot fit-for-purpose LADM projects and is used successfully in deployed enterprise cadastral systems. This approach simplifies implementation, enables cloud operations, and now can work offline. Leveraging SOA and GIS delivers an extremely low cost entry point for developing systems...conference paper 2018