Valuation of heritage buildings is usually performed by architectural-historical experts, who use a typology of heritage values based on conservation philosophy. Increasingly, social and spirituality values are included in heritage assessment frameworks. What happens to valuation systems when external …

There is a shortage of housing and people with a lower income suffer most from this. Vacant buildings are transformed to provide quick housing for them, but it is not sure whether this provides a comfortable home, both from an indoor climate and a meaning making perspective. Existing material about completed …

How to find out what students, starters, and other new households of transformed buildings need to create a home environment with a comfortable climate without losing meanings attributed to the home?

QUOTES “The new ethics: the internet has brought about a generation of socially and environmentally aware consumers with an inclusive mindset towards gender, sexual, racial and cultural identity. Always online, they are exposed to different identities making for an intersectional generation that values …

Large cities in the West respond to an ever-increasing shortage of affordable housing by accelerating the process of urban densification. Amsterdam, for instance, aims to increase its housing stock by 10 percent in the next 15 years as its population is expected to grow by 20 percent. As in other cities, …

Modern airport management is challenged by the task of operating aircraft parking positions most efficiently while complying with environmental policies, restrictions, schedule disruptions, and capacity limitations. This study proposes a novel framework for the stand allocation problem that uses a divide-and-conquer …

In het project Koppelkansen hebben inwoners van Appingedam, Kantens, Stitswerd en Loppersum meegedacht over hoe de versterkingsoperatie kan worden benut voor de verduurzaming van de huizen. Het project werd geleid door twee onderzoekers van het Kenniscentrum Noorder- Ruimte (Hanzehogeschool Groningen), …

QUOTE “Dagelijks worden meer dan 800.000 pakketten afgeleverd bij consumenten van online retailers. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat wanneer online retailers zich niet houden aan de beloofde levertijd, de consument in het vervolg minder snel kiest voor die online retailer omdat deze als ‘’onbetrouwbaar’’ wordt …

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in het kader van het Erfgoedportalproject, in opdracht van de archeologische dienst van de gemeente Zutphen. Het doel van dit project is het beschikbaar maken van het culturele erfgoed van de stad Zutphen aan bewoners en andere belangstellenden. Één van de beoogde onderdelen …