Creating a circular economy within the built environment is vital to achieve a more sustainable society. By replacing building components with more circular ones during new construction, maintenance and renovation, we can gradually create a circular built environment. There are many different possible design variants for circular building components. Yet, knowledge on which variants are the most most circular, and which are feasible to implement is lacking. In this dissertation, we aimed to d...

The neglect of significance, deterioration and consequent devaluation of the post-war mass housing neighbourhoods are major challenges, both in the field of heritage conservation and management and in urban planning and design. The reasons for their deterioration are different, and interlinked with the socio-cultural discourse, as well as the spatial characteristics of these neighbourhoods. This doctoral research addresses the challenges of those neighbourhoods, focusing on New Belgrade Block...

In improving the sustainability of our built environment, European institutions emphasize the importance of protecting and advancing cultural values. As most of the stock is not listed, nor is its heritage significance assessed, future sustainable developments risk neglecting present attributes, causing the loss of resources and their significance. This problem applies to 1965-1985 Dutch housing, comprising over 30% of the stock, with no clarity on its heritage significance. This thesis aims ...

This thesis brings forward the design dimension, and, more specifically, co-design, to the study of housing affordability. Co-design occurs when end-users and professionals work together towards a common goal. It is a process often applied in collaborative housing, an umbrella concept encompassing different housing forms based on collective self-organisation and collaboration, where residents choose to share certain spaces. The aim of this research is to assess if and how co-design processes ...

This dissertation develops an understanding towards governing social sustainability goals into area-based urban development projects. It draws on Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach to construct a capability-centered evaluation of how institutionalized governance processes around these projects ultimately affect people’s freedoms to do the things they value in their urban living environment. Presenting case studies from the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria, the approach adopted in this disse...

In 2002, Gunawan Tjahjono opened his inaugural speech at University of Indonesia with a reference to Vincent Van Romondt, the last remaining Dutch tutor of architecture in Indonesia, who had pioneered an approach that challenged Indonesians to think about the relationship between architecture and 'nationbuilding'. Since independence, the topic of 'towards an Indonesian architecture,' has received various interpretations, with numerous references to Van Romondt. Josef Prijotomo, one of the mos...

This issue of A+BE sets out to contribute to filling the current knowledge gaps concerning the recent socio-spatial transformation processes and their consequences in Lithuania. The thesis aimed to contribute answers to the following questions:

- What are the main features and drivers of socio-spatial change in post-socialist Lithuania?

- Why, despite the growing economy and improvements in the standard of living, Lithuania is facing major challenges related to extreme population decline and...

Bouwdeelkosten Bouwkundig en Bouwdeelkosten Installaties bieden actuele kostengegevens van de meest voorkomende bouw- en installatiedelen in nieuwbouw- en renovatiesituaties. De gegevens geven u snel inzicht in het kosteneffect van ontwerp- en uitvoeringsvarianten en de diverse alternatieven. De uitgave is een betrouwbare basis voor het maken van globale kostenramingen en snelle prijstoetsingen. Elk jaar worden de gegevens volledig geactualiseerd.

Bouwdeelkosten Installaties en Bouwdeelkosten...

Het boekje Gebouwschade bevat veel voorkomende schades en gebreken aan gebouwen en omliggend terrein en betreffen bouwkundige elementen, installaties en terreinonderdelen. Een schadebeeld bevat een foto, een korte omschrijving en reparatievoorstellen met kostenindicatie.

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De serie 'Taxatieboekjes' biedt gemakkelijk hanteerbare kostengegevens, waarmee snel en betrouwbaar de (her)bouwkosten van gebouwen en de herstelkosten van gebouwschades kan worden bepaald.

De serie 'Taxatieboekjes' bes...