Loneliness among young adults is a growing concern worldwide, posing serious health risks. While the human ecological framework explains how various factors such as socio-demographic, social, and built environment characteristics can affect this feeling, still, relatively little is known about the effect …

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of secondary services and facilities provided by Human Facility Management (HFM) on the Work-Life-Balance (WLB) of employees working in office environments in the Netherlands and Germany. The study aims to explore the contribution …

This research was motivated by an interest in exploring the extent to which the Randstad region and the Netherlands as a nation have successfully attracted real estate investment firms to locate/base themselves there. The outsize professionally managed real estate market in the country relative to the …

Het landschap heeft de afgelopen decennia veel veranderingen ondergaan. Door schaalvergroting zijn veel houtige landschapselementen verdwenen in het landschap. Houtige landschapselementen zoals: heggen, hagen, houtsingels en houtwallen leveren tal van ecosysteemdiensten. Deze diensten brengen voordelen …

A large proportion of the global workforce migrated home during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. It remains unclear what the exact differences between home workers and non-home workers were, especially during the pandemic when a return to work was imminent. How were building, workplace, …

Due to the limited amount of space, occupier consultants who service clients looking for large warehouses will likely have to consider offering their service to smaller sized clients as well. This thesis aims to find out how this could be effectively done, by using a client assessment model.

The real estate market is a turbulent market where multiple trends and developments continuously affect real estate prices. Developments such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing E-Commerce market share caused an uncertainty in the high street real estate market. The average risk premium of Gross …

This study contributes to finding out how Digital Signage together with sensory perceptions should be placed within the design of physical clothing stores to optimize the guests ' experience. In terms of sensory perception, the focus was on the environmental factors of music and lighting, and the design …

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations have drastically started to reformulate the functionalities of their offices. The trend hybrid working has caused office buildings to have considerable low occupancy rates, as employees rather perform certain tasks at home and do not feel like the …

What factors played a role in the decision to locate at a Dutch Science Park, and what are the differences/similarities between the different science parks considered in this research?