Integrating Environmental Sustainability in Construction and Real Estate Management Education

Book Chapter (2024)
Author(s)

E. Mlecnik (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)

K. Qian (TU Delft - Design & Construction Management)

A. Straub (TU Delft - Design & Construction Management)

A. Ersoy (TU Delft - Urban Development Management)

H.T. Remøy (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)

V. Gruis (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)

F. Hobma (TU Delft - Design & Construction Management)

R.M. Rooij (TU Delft - Spatial Planning and Strategy)

Herman Vande Putte (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)

G.A. van Bortel (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)

M. Roeling (TU Delft - Environmental & Climate Design)

Research Group
Real Estate Management
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55996-9_11
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Publication Year
2024
Language
English
Research Group
Real Estate Management
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Pages (from-to)
159-175
ISBN (print)
978-3-031-55995-2
ISBN (electronic)
978-3-031-55996-9
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Abstract

It is recommended to integrate specific management competencies in academic education to support the transition towards environmentally sustainable practices, particularly in the construction and real estate sector. This paper explores how architectural management education can integrate environmental sustainability within its current university programmes. In recent years TU Delft explored and experimented with various education initiatives to bring forward environmental sustainability knowledge and to connect with policy, societal and industry practices. This paper describes what we learned from both bottom-up and top-down initiatives implementing environmental sustainability in construction and real estate management education. Bottom-up educational initiatives show that knowledge about transition policies, stakeholder experiences, business models and management practices from a European perspective can help students across the globe to apply knowledge into their local context, reflecting on the overarching management principals across stakeholders, institutions, academic disciplines and cultures. Top-down initiatives show that the university has a vision on integrating sustainability in its curriculum, but that integrating environmental sustainability in construction and real estate management education is still challenging. Adapting the academic curriculum to integrate building and portfolio responses to environmental challenges might be a way forward and the experiences from numerous elective courses and educational initiatives can be a basis to identify the development of a future standard curriculum.

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