Stimulating Sustainable Corporate Real Estate: Developing a Sustainability Reference Model for the Preference-based Accommodation Strategy

Environmental sustainability has become an urgent matter on the Dutch political agenda, which will affect the built environment in the near future. Consequently, organizations have to adapt their real estate to new regulations for building performance and their own sustainability goals. The Preference-based Accommodation Strategy (PAS) is a...

Performance-based maintenance contracts for offshore wind farms: A decision-making flowchart to structure the sourcing process for the post-warranty O&M phase of offshore wind farms

The pioneers in the early 21th century who built the first big offshore wind farms now have to compete with the quickly improving renewable energy technologies and see their farm being out-dated (See also: Dvorak, 2013 & Wind Energy Update, 2013). At present, wind farm owners face difficult decisions when finding the right O&M contract...

Enhancing the Resilience of a Semiconductor Supply Network via Modeling and Simulation of Business Continuity Strategies for Alternative Sites: A Case Study of Building a Resilient Supply Network at Infineon

Enhancing supply chain resilience is of vital importance in today’s business to manage and mitigate the risks, especially in the semiconductor industry challenged with long cycle times and short product life-cycles. Transferring production from a primary site to an alternative site after a disaster is one of the strategies to ensure resilience...

Involving Patients in Data Decisions

Data from health wearables promises to deliver value to all stakeholders by improving the quality of care, while making them more convenient and cost-friendly. However, many companies are collecting data now without a clear purpose, expecting it to pay out tomorrow. They handle the data as a currency, with similar risks and benefits, and often...

Designing and Testing a Strategy Game

A persistent problem in Corporate Real Estate Management CREM) is the issue of aligning an organization’s real estate to its organizational objectives. In this thesis a decision-making model has been designed for the Delft UT in order to provide the organization with a solution as to how they can renew their portfolio of lecture halls. In order...