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Kwan, Yuen-ling. "Office decentralization in Hong Kong, 1981-89, with particular reference to the financial sector /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1990. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13008894.
Full textKraatz, Anthony M. "Office park." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2005. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
Full textFarkas, Tibor. "Daylighting in office buildings." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25150.
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Cummin, Lesley D., and Andrew H. Popik. "Repositioning Manhattan office buildings." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72747.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 129-131).
by Lesley D. Cummin and Andrew H. Popik.
M.S.
Liu, Mei-fong. "A study of office decentralization in Sha Tin New Town /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13349880.
Full textLai, Kwok-leung Horace. "Union office in West Kowloon reclamation area." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31985774.
Full textWong, Sik-kin Simon. "An analysis of the Hong Kong office property market." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19740694.
Full textWei, Yu-Hua S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The market of medical office buildings." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77128.
Full textCataloged from department-submitted PDF version of thesis. This electronic version was submitted and approved by the author's academic department as part of an electronic thesis pilot project. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103).
This paper is to define the demand and supply factors and to develop a system to forecast the future development of medical office buildings. At this juncture of time when the health care industry is facing historical changes due to demographic shift, economic challenges and legislative moves, understanding the market mechanism of medical office buildings that provide easy accesses for medical service to aging population, carry lower costs for health care system, and promote the preventive care in medical practices has never been more critical. Medical office buildings as a real estate product type have unique market and development mechanism. They house medical services and have commercial and retail real estate characteristics. To understand the demand and supply of medical office buildings, health care industry that provide medical services, population consuming medical services and real estate industry develop and manage the physical space need to be observed. By using panel regression to analyze historical economic, population and health care employment data across metropolitan areas, we can establish a system that explains the medical office building market. We further quantify the future medical office building demand based on the forecasted economic data and the model established in this paper. The future development of medical office buildings is intricately tied to many factors including the trends predicating the scale and speed of the development. Using the historical events as guidelines and the system established, this paper presents positive outcomes for the demand of medical office buildings under different scenarios.
by Yu-Hua Wei.
S.M.in Real Estate Development
Ericsson, Jacob, and Erik Waldén. "Conversion of office buildings to dwellings." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-190052.
Full textSveriges fastighetsmarknad är, under den rådande högkonjunkturen, en attraktiv investeringsmarknad med en fortsatt ljus framtid. Stockholm står, enligt fjolårets siffror, för en tredjedel av transaktionsvolymen i landet och är fortsatt den största och mest intressanta investeringsmarknaden i Norden. Samtidigt som intresset att investera i Stockholms kommersiella fastighetsmarknad är högt, står regionen inför toppnoteringar i befolkningstillväxt vilket sätter press på produktionen av nya bostäder. Antalet nybyggnationsprojekt i Stockholm är otillräckligt för att nå upp till marknadens efterfrågan, vilket uppmuntrar till andra alternativ att producera nya bostäder. I dagens fastighetsbestånd för kontossegmentet finns flertalet äldre byggnader med dålig ekonomi och avkastningskrav. Detta kan bero på fastighetens byggnadstekniska förutsättningar, planlösningar och läge. För fastigheter av detta slag kan ombyggnation till bostadsrätter vara ett lönsamt alternativ. Här står fastighetsägare inför ett val att antingen genomföra en renovering för att mäta marknadens krav för anpassningsbara kontorsytor, eller att konvertera till bostadsrätter. Denna rapport presenterar en ekonomisk lönsamhetsanalys i att konvertera befintliga kontorsfastigheter till bostadsrätter för utvalda delmarknader i Stockholm. Transaktionspriser för bostadsrätter, kontorsfastigheter, samt schabloniserade marknadsvärderingar av kontorsfastigheter ligger som grund för analysen. Denna presenteras i en generell områdesanalys som verifieras med två fallstudier av fastigheter i utvalda delmarknader. Med hänsyn till de höga bostadspriserna utgör Stockholm en gynnsam marknad för konvertering av detta slag. Störst lönsamhet har påvisats i delmarknader vilka är ett AA- eller A-läge för bostäder samtidigt som det är ett C- eller D-läge för kontor.
Kwong, Kwok-tung Vincent. "A new general Post Office." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25954751.
Full textReader, James Weatherston. "Hydrographic office & chart Information centre." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25946432.
Full textChau, Yuet-chu. "A future newspaper office building." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B26398278.
Full textLeung, Wai-yip. "Indoor air quality and heating, ventilation & air conditioning systems in office buildings /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18734315.
Full textKwan, Pui-man, and 關佩文. "Building energy conservation and environmental assessment for office buildings in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45008097.
Full textKara, Deniz. "Implementing productivity based demand response in office buildings using building automation standards." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10944/.
Full textCampbell, Ronald. "Intelligent buildings : fact or fiction?" Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336647.
Full textTreloar, Graham J., and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "Energy analysis of the construction of office buildings." Deakin University. School of Architecture and Building, 1994. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040617.170806.
Full textBlakstad, Siri Hunnes. "A Strategic Approach to Adaptability in Office Buildings." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-26.
Full textThis thesis, “A Strategic Approach to adaptability in office buildings”, is the result of a doktor ingeniør-project financed by a NBI project called “Buildings in a life cycle perspective”. The work was carried out at the Department of Building Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Fine Arts at NTNU in the period 1997 - 2001.
The main objective of this work is to develop and present knowledge about adaptability in office buildings and how this knowledge can be enhanced. Adaptability is thought to be important in order to reduce mismatches between buildings and their user organisations. Mismatches will occur in the Building – User Relationship over a period of time. The level of mismatch will vary, but at one point the mismatch exceeds the acceptable mismatch level, and major adaptations in the building, in the use of the building, or in how the user organisation finances and procures real estate, are needed. The acceptable mismatch level will vary from situation to situation, but there will always be some level of mismatch in the Building – User Relationship, and minor adaptations must be carried out continuously.
As opposed to many of the earlier works that have dealt with these issues, this work is mainly focused on adaptability, not only on flexibility. Adaptability is here defined as “the ability to change, responding to internal or external changes”, and it is seen as something that approaches the problem “from the top”. Flexibility, on the other hand, is seen as more solution-oriented, giving possibilities for change within a limited set of alternatives. Flexibility is still seen as important, but as one of several ways to achieve physical adaptability, together with partitionability, multifunctionality, and extendability. This work is also more based on a social-constructivist approach to the problem, and on the socio-technical relationships between buildings and users, rather than on technical solutions.
The main reason to engage oneself in the study of adaptability in office buildings is that we have seen the changes that have taken place in offices during the last 100 years, and that we expect these changes to accelerate. During the history of office buildings there has been a large variety in office layouts and workplace design. The use of the building and the workplace ideals may change, but the actual building is more durable. Thus, most buildings will meet a change in requirements during their lifetime, to which they have to be adapted. Some existing buildings adapt readily to change, others are more difficult to alter. The building will be adapted if the value of adapting the building into new or future use is thought to be greater than the value of the alternatives and the cost of adaptations. This value can be both financial value and value of use.
The value of use is most clearly seen in the Building – User Relationship (BUR). This is a dialectic relationship between buildings and users, where the two sides are believed to mutually affect each other. When the organisation changes, the building must be adapted in response to a new situation. On the other hand, the organisation will adapt itself to the possibilities and constraints in the building. The BUR is not necessarily only concerned with one user. It can also be seen as the relationship between the building and several users or between the user and several buildings. Major and continuous changes and adaptations will happen in both cases, and the same approach, with some adaptations, can be used.
Because the BUR is thought to be constantly changing, there is always a mismatch between supply (what the building can offer) and demand (what the organisation needs). This mismatch must be managed in order to create the best possible fit between the building and the user organisation.
To manage the mismatches, one has to consider planning and decision-making under uncertainty. An understanding of the direction and the future on the demand side (the user organisation), as well as a strategy for developing the supply side (the building) must be developed. The interface between the two has to be managed in a long-term perspective. In order to deal with this, a strategic way of managing the mismatch is chosen, and the Strategic Approach to adaptability is based on a strategic iterative decision-making process. The metaphor of design has been used to explore and explain the iterative decision-making process, which is based on interaction between the phases of awareness, analysis, and action.
The main ingredients in the Strategic Approach are:
1. A “mindset”, which is a way of thinking about changes in the Building – User Relationship. This mindset includes knowledge about organisations and buildings and how they change and affect each other.
2. Strategic, iterative decision-making based on a process of awareness, analysis, and action. This decision-making process can be applied in different situations. Two situations of special relevance to the Building – User Relationship have been described in this work: The management of BUR mismatches, which is the continuous process of adapting buildings and user organisations to each other, and the Strategic Approach used in the building’s life cycle, from initiative concept, programming, design, and construction, to use and operation.
3. Some tools can be applied within the strategic decision-making process to aid decision-making. For ex. assess uncertainty, for financial analysis, to anticipate the future, to evaluate buildings, to structure planning processes, for visualising, or for problem solving. In this work, two tools have been described in detail: scenarios and layering.
4. Measures are actual solutions that can be applied (a) to the building, (b) to the use of buildings, or (c) in finance and contracts, to enhance adaptability. Actual measures are outside the scope of this work, where the main focus is on strategic decision-making and the Building – User Relationship. They are, however, mentioned when appropriate, i.e. in the description of design strategies and of layering.
This study is mostly explorative, and an interpretative research approach has been used. This means that concepts and theories have been developed during the enquiry. An iterative research process with empirical and theoretical studies was used. The research instruments were interviews, workshops, and case studies, as well as a final example case, which is used to demonstrate the Strategic Approach in practice.
4 cases are presented: Dagbladet, a major retrofit process of a building complex with several buildings of different ages, which focused on a layered and phased retrofit process. Gjensidige, a new corporate headquarters for a large insurance company, which in its new building focused on strategic decisions and end-user involvement.
Office XX, an experimental building with technical solutions that encourages flexibility and give possibilities for easy assembly and disassembly of the building or parts of it. And finally K-bank’s new headquarters, Colosseum Park, which was developed as a commercial multi-purpose office building.
The Strategic Approach is finally applied to an example, in order to show how it could have been used in practice. A description of the real sequence of events is compared to an idealised version of the example; a simulation of the Strategic Approach used in the Consultants Inc. project”. The study shows that Consultants Inc. might have benefited from using the approach. The next step will, however, be to test the Strategic Approach in a pilot case and monitor the long-term effects on adaptability and BUR mismatches.
The main results from this work have been:
- That a Strategic Approach based on an understanding of the dynamics in the Building-User Relationship, and a strategic decision-making process has been developed, as well as some tools and methods which can be applied within a Strategic Approach. Some of this is developed in this project. Other issues are based on previous works, but used within the framework, the Strategic Approach developed in this project.
- That a Strategic Approach has been shown to be important and necessary to improve adaptability in office buildings.
Zhang, Ke. "Life cycle costing for office buildings in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39098.pdf.
Full textKhajehpour, Siavash. "Optimal conceptual design of high-rise office buildings." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60544.pdf.
Full textGrajewski, Tadeusz Roman. "Spatial configurations and interaction patterns within office buildings." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408397.
Full textSannaty, Venoo Kamesh. "Strategies for Energy Efficient Office Buildings in India." Thesis, KTH, Samhällsplanering och miljö, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-100769.
Full textPoon, Kwok-hing Francis. "Analysis of financial return of office sector in Hong Kong (1979-1988)." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31979671.
Full textCostanzo, Vincenzo. "Cool Roofs for improving thermal performance of existing EU office buildings." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/3822.
Full textChan, Kin-fai. "Office development for the future C.B.D." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25945166.
Full textDiaz, C. "Climate-responsive design for non-domestic buildings in warm climates : optimisation of thermal mass for indoor cooling." n.p, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/.
Full textLai, Kwok-leung Horace, and 勵國樑. "Union office in West Kowloon reclamation area." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985774.
Full textChiang, Yat-hung. "Property investment in a portfolio context : analysis of risk and return of office property investment in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19050239.
Full textLee, Kai-Yip, and 李繼業. "Indoor air pathogens and HVAC systems in office buildings." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31255929.
Full textKwong, Kwok-tung Vincent, and 鄺國棟. "A new general Post Office." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31983406.
Full textDuran, Ozlem. "Evaluation of retrofitting strategies for post-war office buildings." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/32268.
Full textChau, Yuet-chu, and 周月珠. "A future newspaper office building." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982748.
Full textKhasreen, Mohamad Monkiz. "Carbon dioxide emissions of office buildings in Scotland : life-cycle assesment of new-build offices." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2701.
Full textXu, Nora (Nora Lan). "Active participation of buildings in the power sector : the case of small office buildings." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103567.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140).
Under the broad context of decarbonization of the energy sector, commercial buildings are well-suited for providing ancillary services to the electricity grid and poised to transform from passive consumers to active electricity market participants. A data-driven multi-zonal thermal response model is formulated and fit to EnergyPlus simulation data from a Department of Energy Small Office Reference Commercial Building for the months of June, July and August. When validated and tested against EnergyPlus simulation data, the thermal response model performs well. The thermal response model is then used in a co-optimization of energy and ancillary provision for a small office building with a variable air volume system from [9] using summer wholesale electricity and ancillary services prices from ISO-NE. Under six different price cases, the individual small office building provides maximum hourly regulation and spinning reserve capacities of 3.2 and 4.4 kW respectively and daily total regulation and spinning reserve capacities of 51 and 46 kW respectively. When scaled up over similar building stock in New England, small office buildings can provide up to 9.5% of ISO-NE's daily regulation requirement and 8% of the daily spinning reserves requirement. From an economic perspective, a small office building's potential summer ancillary services' revenues are not sufficient to drive investment in installation of a building automation system, variable air volume system and associated metering. However, buildings may invest in the necessary equipment for energy cost reductions and to participate in other demand response programs. Increasing building participation rates in ancillary services markets requires addressing the principal-agent problem, building-specific concerns such as program controllability and convenience and targeted policies aimed at increasing availability of clear aggregator-enabled building participation avenues.
by Nora Xu.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
Mustafaraj, Giorgio. "Thermal behaviour model identification for three different office buildings." Thesis, Brunel University, 2008. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5336.
Full textGiatas, Shawn. "The Technological Evolution of Three Office Buildings Over Time." Digital WPI, 2013. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/301.
Full textBrittle, John P. "Passive system integration for office buildings in hot climates." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/23912.
Full textKantola, Dunja. "Socially Sustainable Office Buildings - A better business for everyone." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-416343.
Full textOduyemi, Olufolahan Ifeoluwa. "Life cycle costing methodology for sustainable commerical office buildings." Thesis, University of Derby, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/581569.
Full textMcKinley, Alan D. (Alan Duncan) Carleton University Dissertation Engineering Electrical. "The characteristics of electronic communications traffic in office buildings." Ottawa, 1993.
Find full textPun, Kok-hing Ali. "The evolution of a strategic office centre in Tsuen Wan under the implications of PADS : the possibility of Tsuen Wan to become an office centre /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25940466.
Full textIsmail, Lokman Hakim. "An evaluation of bioclimatic high rise office buildings in a tropical climate : energy consumption and users' satisfaction in selected office buildings in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491107.
Full textLiusman, Ervi. "Rental adjustment in the office market : empirical evidence from Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25940168.
Full textMa, Chi-fai Jeff. "Hong Kong Mail Centre." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25948933.
Full textMoore, Thomas. "Qualitative and quantitative aspects of user controllable lighting systems." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2001. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250352.
Full textWong, Sik-kin Simon, and 黃錫堅. "An analysis of the Hong Kong office property market." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31954820.
Full textKorolija, Ivan. "Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system energy demand coupling with building loads for office buildings." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/5501.
Full textLai, Yuen-kwan, and 黎婉筠. "A comparative study of tenant mix between shopping centres in residential buildings and office buildings." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009363.
Full textLai, Yuen-kwan. "A comparative study of tenant mix between shopping centres in residential buildings and office buildings /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40988442.
Full textLiu, Mei-fong, and 廖美芳. "A study of office decentralization in Sha Tin New Town." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31258049.
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