Accessibility to primary health care in Belgium: an evaluation of policies awarding financial dif... more Accessibility to primary health care in Belgium: an evaluation of policies awarding financial different methods are used. Dewulf et al. BMC Family Practice 2013, 14:122
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021
Like any persistent challenge, the transition from a linear to a circular construction economy re... more Like any persistent challenge, the transition from a linear to a circular construction economy requires systemic changes. To divert from current practices that maintain the take-make-waste logic, we need new ways of doing and thinking within the value network of construction. In search for those enduring changes, a compass group advises the Flemish Living Lab on Circular Construction. This lab is a three-and-a-half-year project of study and experiment initiated by policy. During four participatory workshops, the compass group identified the most important system hurdles and necessary changes for achieving a circular construction economy, through subsequent steps of system analysis, translation and reflection. These outcomes have been synthesized and validated during the last workshop and are presented in this paper as a preliminary outcome of lab. Further, by bringing together forerunners of construction and co-creating together new knowledge, it is demonstrated how a well-guided co...
Summary This paper introduces an assessment method to quantify the generality and adaptability of... more Summary This paper introduces an assessment method to quantify the generality and adaptability of building layouts in a fast and non-predictive way. The generality of building layouts is an indication of the amount of different uses a building can shelter. Adaptability is a measure of how easily a building can be changed to accommodate new uses. Justified plan graphs analysis is an analytical graph-based method within Space Syntax theory that can be used to analyse the spatial configuration of building layouts. The generality of a layout can be expressed in terms its mean integration. The most innovative aspect of the assessment method is the use of weighted graphs to determine the adaptability of a building. Weighted links in the graph represent all possible connections that could be made between rooms by opening up existing walls. The scope of this paper is to present a proof of concept of the basic idea of the assessment method, based on the analysis of both a social housing unit...
Accessibility to primary health care in Belgium: an evaluation of policies awarding financial dif... more Accessibility to primary health care in Belgium: an evaluation of policies awarding financial different methods are used. Dewulf et al. BMC Family Practice 2013, 14:122
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021
Like any persistent challenge, the transition from a linear to a circular construction economy re... more Like any persistent challenge, the transition from a linear to a circular construction economy requires systemic changes. To divert from current practices that maintain the take-make-waste logic, we need new ways of doing and thinking within the value network of construction. In search for those enduring changes, a compass group advises the Flemish Living Lab on Circular Construction. This lab is a three-and-a-half-year project of study and experiment initiated by policy. During four participatory workshops, the compass group identified the most important system hurdles and necessary changes for achieving a circular construction economy, through subsequent steps of system analysis, translation and reflection. These outcomes have been synthesized and validated during the last workshop and are presented in this paper as a preliminary outcome of lab. Further, by bringing together forerunners of construction and co-creating together new knowledge, it is demonstrated how a well-guided co...
Summary This paper introduces an assessment method to quantify the generality and adaptability of... more Summary This paper introduces an assessment method to quantify the generality and adaptability of building layouts in a fast and non-predictive way. The generality of building layouts is an indication of the amount of different uses a building can shelter. Adaptability is a measure of how easily a building can be changed to accommodate new uses. Justified plan graphs analysis is an analytical graph-based method within Space Syntax theory that can be used to analyse the spatial configuration of building layouts. The generality of a layout can be expressed in terms its mean integration. The most innovative aspect of the assessment method is the use of weighted graphs to determine the adaptability of a building. Weighted links in the graph represent all possible connections that could be made between rooms by opening up existing walls. The scope of this paper is to present a proof of concept of the basic idea of the assessment method, based on the analysis of both a social housing unit...
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