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A.F. Thomsen

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In the last decades, considerable work has been done regarding service life prediction of buildings and building components. Academics and members of the CIB W080 commission, as well as of ISO TC 59/SC14, have made several efforts in this area and created a general terminology fo ...

Housing Pathology

Towards a Holistic Pathological Approach of Residential Buildings

Housing pathology is the holistic approach to identify, investigate and diagnose housing deficiencies, specify preventive measures and remedial interventions and evaluate their effects. In analogy with health as the core condition for the quality of human life, the health of hous ...
What is the average lifespan of dwellings? Though of decisive importance for the provision, maintenance and management of housing stocks, and despite a choice of research papers about the subject, the last word about this question is far from said. At first a distinction should b ...
Obsolescence, defined as the process of declining performance of buildings, is a serious threat for the value, the usefulness and the life span of built properties. Thomsen and van der Flier (2011) developed a model in which obsolescence is categorised on the basis of two distinc ...

Richard Turkington and Christopher Watson (eds.): Renewing Europe’s housing

Policy Press, UK, 2015, 328 pp, £70.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-44731-012-9

Nieuwe Bouwwet deugt niet

Wetsvoorstel kwaliteitsborging voor de bouw

Minister Blok stuurde medio april zijn omstreden wetsvoorstel Kwaliteitsborging voor de bouw naar de Tweede Kamer. De consumentenorganisaties verenigd in de Woonalliantie wijzen het wetsontwerp als geheel af.@en

Ringers

Rise, decline and reuse of a chocolate factory

The Ringers factory in Alkmaar

A life cycle analysis using the Thomsen and Van der Flier model