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Navigating lock-ins for adaptation

A case study of grid capacity planning in the Dutch energy transition

Lock-ins are typically seen as barriers to sustainability transitions, particularly in the energy sector, where they can impede the radical changes needed for decarbonization. This study, however, argues that lock-ins can also act as catalysts for innovation within grid operators ...
Hospital planning and design projects are known for their complexity, partly attributed to the many stakeholders involved. This study aims to understand how a Dutch hospital project, with transformative change goals for its future healthcare delivery, dealt with their stakeholder ...
Digital transformation in projects disrupts how project-oriented organizations recognize and value skills and expertise of new data-savvy talents. Existing research on digitalization in projects has focused mainly on technologies that can help organizations and people achieve, wi ...
Understanding the current status and historical path dependencies of infrastructures is crucial for planning future interventions in sustainability transitions. However, studies that examine the interplay between sustainability transitions and civil infrastructures remain limited ...
Wicked challenges such as energy and material shortage have prompted educators in AECO disciplines to adopt CBL methods. This paper explores the potential and limitations of using BIM as an education platform to address these challenges within an inter-disciplinary setting. Throu ...

Change to Care

Transforming Our Education and Focus on Students’ Identity Development

At TU Delft, we are not just educating engineers; we are shaping the future of engineering and engineering education. We are empowering our students to become the kind of leaders who can navigate complexity, embrace change, and build a better world, also under VUCA conditions. In ...
Cross-domain coordination and nexus thinking are increasingly recognized as vital for addressing complex sustainability challenges in infrastructure systems. Transitions in one infrastructure system often reshape others through socio-technical interactions, revealing critical int ...

Organising digital twin in the built environment

A systematic review and research directions on the missing links of use and user perspectives of digital twin in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector

There has been growing interest in the adoption of advanced digital technologies in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector, as shown by the increasing number of review studies on the adoption of Digital Twin (DT) in the sector. While previous reviews on DT in ...
The transition to a circular economy in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry requires coordinated supply chain transitions. Digital tools, such as data-sharing platforms and BIM-based circular design tools, offer potential but remain underutilized, parti ...
The construction sector is increasingly recognized as a critical domain in the pursuit of a circular economy (CE) (Adams et al. 2017). In the Netherlands, the landfilling of construction and demolition waste (CDW) is already minimized, underlining the transition outcome to CE, bu ...

Reshaping the past, Building the future

The interconnectedness of ESG values and digital functions within real estate developments

The real estate industry is increasingly challenged to integrate sustainability into its operations, more specifically by the growing importance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) values. Simultaneously, the advancement of digital functions is reshaping industries wor ...
Interorganisational collaboration has been a longstanding, central topic of interest to researchers and practitioners in construction management. Early studies have approached collaboration through factors- or indicators-oriented modes of theorising, with more recent studies zoom ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most dicussed topics of today and are being used to support solving complex problems. AI has given opportunities for efficiency, control, safety while raising issues around trust, optimism and responsibility. One of the prominent ...
Despite the importance of motivation in driving the formation of collaborative risk management, the existing literature lacks recognition of stakeholders’ motivations to participate in the collaborative risk management of mega infrastructure projects. By combining interview data ...
Automatic design tools are being developed to assist designers handle tedious work at scale. However, knowledge gaps still exist in harnessing deep learning models to learn from human experience for more efficient design generation while keeping the data understandable and intero ...
In an age where research productivity has become a valued measure, it is encouraging to read a book that calls for researchers to slow down and embrace ethnography in order to dwell in the throes of everyday life. As the editors rightly point out, ethnographic research enables us ...
Amidst the disruptive backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are navigating toward a new normal, leveraging digital technologies to reconfigure business processes and operational practices. This study delves into the transformative effects of digitalization on project m ...
The recent research focus on circular construction supply chains challenges the integration of supply chain processes. There is a need to build simulation tools for construction, facility management, deconstruction and reuse of building components. This paper introduces a model-b ...
To close the loop for the circular economy (CE) transition in the construction industry, forward logistics (FL) and reverse logistics (RL), as enabling operations for CE, are important topics to be addressed. However, current research mainly focuses on either FL or RL, with a lac ...

Questioning Collaboration in the Circular Built Environment

Multi-cycle, Multi-scalar and Multi-level Perspectives in the Renovation Sector

Research on the circular built environment has to date focussed mainly on technical aspects of circularity in the built environment, emphasising the development of methods, tools, and frameworks to facilitate technical solutions that can narrow, slow, close, and regenerate materi ...