Business districts account for the largest part of energy use in the Netherlands. However, these districts have up to now received little attention with regard to their energy use and efficiency. The mid-sized manufacturing industry is characterized by high energy intensity and …
Implementing innovations and extending the core business increases both project opportunities and threats. Securing profit margins requires construction companies to redevelop their risk management process to prevent threats and promote opportunities. This research provides a renewed risk management methodology based …
This paper is about the determinants of the household energy consumption in the social housing sector in the Netherlands. Research has shown that there is a large variation in the energy use of households of similar dwellings due to the …
After five years of recession, a lot of initial anticipations and aspirations were negated. Among these, the exploitation plans for the expansion locations of municipalities. The poor housing, retail and office markets are ruining private and public parties, but in …
Congestion on urban main roads occurs due to a limited infrastructural capacity as compared to the supply of vehicles. Two action plans exist to reduce the magnitude of congestion issues on urban main roads: reducing the supply of vehicles and …
The purpose of this research is to determine the influence of the surrounding environment of train stations on Dutch travelers’ origin train station choice behavior. The area surrounding the stations is characterized according to TOD theory. The research data was …
Automated driving could highly benefit society by improved safety, traffic flow and increased environmental savings. To enable this, vehicle users should release their driving control to automated driving systems. However, it is not granted that vehicle users are willing to …
The Dutch government has a growing interest in (1) the prevention of cluttering, (2) better efficiency and intelligent use of space and (3) improvement of spatial quality. Thus, the government created the ‘Mooi Nederland’ (‘Beautiful Netherlands’) policy, in which the …
After the Second World War the goal was to produce a lot of dwellings for the people. In this moment in time the quantity was important. Now the visions are changing and the (sustainable) quality of the houses that are …
Homeownership has lot of benefits but due to the financial crisis since 2007 the focus is already moved towards the risks and responsibilities associated with homeownership. With foundation damage the security of a solid foundation falls apart which has a …
Both vacancy and transformation of existing buildings are of all ages. However the last few years the market is changed into a so called replacement market. The office stock in use is fairly stable, there is no demand for expansion. …
In the Netherlands, vacancy of retail properties is a relatively new problem in contrast to vacancy in the office market, which has been on the agenda for years. The main reason for this development is the web shop-march. The service economy …
Transforming Climate-KIC innovation projects into startups is a challenging solution for the problems that innovation projects currently face in reaching the goal of commercializing new products and services. This research identifies these problems by conducting interviews with innovation project managers, …
Since the air pollution situation in Europe is getting worse, some measures should be taken. More than a fifth of the greenhouse gas emissions is due to traffic-consumption and therefore this research will make an attempt to optimize the transport …
Transforming the CANVAS business model sheet into a social and dynamic business model structure, as tool for housing associations’ board, is a challenging ambition for the problems the organization is currently facing. Regarding the broad available research perspective, and besides …