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 …

Nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst van TU/e Urban Labs met stakeholders uit onderzoek, onderwijs en de praktijk.Nieuwe opgaven vragen om lerende organisaties. Hoe vind je ruimte in een (drukke) dagelijkse praktijk om te blijven leren en nieuwe kennis te verwerven.

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, …