Monique Arkesteijn

Delft University of Technology | TU

Purpose - One of the long-standing issues in the field of corporate real estate management is the alignment of an organization’s real estate to its corporate strategy. A classification of alignment models shows, that as of yet no model exists that is able to design a real estate portfolio and makes use of scales for direct measurement of added valu...

Purpose – This article aims at providing case-based evidence to support the idea that an integral approach using life cycle costs (LCC) would lead to more in-depth argued adjustments towards sustainable and feasible school buildings. There is a gap between the investment in and the operating costs of public school buildings, caused by the splitting...

Although several strategy scholars have pleaded for a pluralistic approach, not many have empirically shown the actual implementation of pluralism in strategic real estate decisions. In this article we demonstrate the value of implementing pluralism for the design of a real estate strategy of a Dutch university campus. Three strategic projects – an...

Since 2008, after 35 years of a publicly supported healthcare real estate budget system, Dutch healthcare organisations have become financially responsible for the profits and risks of their real estate investment. Furthermore the Dutch healthcare system is in transition towards a regulated market system with growing competition between healthcare...

Purpose Corporate real estate management (CREM) is complex due to an increasing number of real estate (RE) added values and the tensions between them. RE managers are faced with trade-offs: to choose a higher performance for one added value at the cost of another. CREM research mainly deals with trade-offs in a hypothetical sense, without looking a...

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, office workers were obliged to work from home (WFH). Alongside known positive aspects of home-based telework, it is associated with reduced health and productivity impacts. Its success depends on employee and environmental characteristics. Objective: This paper fills the gap in knowledge on the mediating...

Internationally, the ambition to achieve a sustainable built environment is becoming urgent. On the university campus, this vision, combined with unparalleled access to innovative technologies for sustainable development enables/urges universities to implement more innovative solutions more often. As a prime test location, the university campus is...

Campus decision makers are increasingly expected to adopt ‘campus innovations’ (affecting real estate and different facilities), not only from the market and demand-led (external campus innovations), but also developed by the university's own scientists (internal campus innovations). The adoption of the latter can be driven and hindered by many uni...

At universities worldwide, the notion of a ‘smart campus’ is becoming increasingly appealing as a response to the multitude of challenges that impact campus development and operation. Smart campus tools are widely used to support students and employees, optimise space use and save energy. Although smart campus tools are supposed to support campus m...

Purpose Across the world, many universities are dealing with a pressure on resources, caused by both organisational developments and ageing campuses. Space utilization studies have a strategic role, providing information on how space is being used, thereby informing decisions about the type and scale of facilities that are needed. Design/methodolo...

Handbooks on strategic real estate management are generally based on four strategies for functional adjustment of the building: conversion, expansion, renovation and adaptive reuse. And on a strategic level, this classification in adjustment strategies does work for real estate in general. But when looking at Dutch primary schools as a specific typ...

Higher education institutions (HEIs) in both early and mature stages of sustainable development (SD) have been moving toward sustainability. Methods for assessing SD have been developed from global and regional contexts to support sustainability efforts. The purpose of this paper is to formulate guidelines as input to develop a sustainable assessme...

At universities worldwide, creating a ‘smart campus’ is gaining significance. This is a response to the increasingly dynamic use of the campus and the pressure on resources: energy, financial and human resources. The university community has become more mobile, student numbers more unpredictable and funding more uncertain. Consequently, campus stra...

Health is a trending topic in the office market, yet scientific research on healthy offices is scattered. This study undertakes a systematic literature review on the relationship between the interior space of offices and physical, psychological and social well-being. The review identifies the characteristics of interior office space that have been...

One of the long-standing issues in corporate real estate (CRE) management is the alignment of an organization’s real estate to its corporate strategy. In the last thirty years, fourteen CRE alignment models have been developed. In these models the objective is to become ‘more aligned’ and in some of them the target is maximum or optimum added value...

Even though extensive research into existing CRE alignment models has provided us with valuable insights into the building blocks, components and variables that are needed in the alignment process, these models still fall short in two ways. Most models pay little to no attention to (1) the design of new CRE portfolios and (2) the selection of a new...

Purpose This paper aims to underpin the importance of the availability (or absence) of campus management information (CMI) in supporting universities’ goals. Design/methodology/approach Four perspectives of campus management were used to develop a structured survey enquiring campus managers about universities’ goals, finances, users and spaces. It...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to generate knowledge about the use of smart campus tools to improve the effective and efficient use of campuses. Many universities are facing a challenge in attuning their accommodation to organisational demand. How can universities invest their resources as effectively as possible and not in space that will be...

The purpose of this article is to describe the effects of university governance on campus management based on the examples of the Netherlands and Poland. The study connected theory on campus management with a concept of five dimensions of university governance (autonomy, management, participation, accountability and transparency) into an innovative...

Purpose As corporations change their way of working, the importance of corporate real estate (CRE) management has increased. Hence, there is a need to structure the existing knowledge and to identify the latest developments in CRE research. This paper aims to identify the major developments and changed paradigms in CRE research in 2005-2015. Desi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how strategic corporate real estate (CRE) management varies across different types of organizational culture. Additionally, the authors examine how a set of well-established strategies is categorized by CRE executives and investigate whether there have been any changes in priorities of managers’...

“Everything is booked, but many rooms and seats are empty”. This problem was the basis of the ‘Smart campus tools’ research and is familiar to both users and campus managers alike. Smart campus tools were envisioned as a possible solution: providing real-time information on space use to campus users to help them use the campus better, whilst also c...

Purpose The objective of Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) is to optimally attune corporate accommodation to organisational performance. At universities the dynamic process to match supply and demand is often hindered by difficulties in the allocation and use of space. This is a challenge for the Dutch universities and perhaps also European...

Purpose This paper reports an analysis of the graphical representations of fourteen corporate real estate (CRE) models. It does this to establish the systematic, metatheoretical requirements for modelling CRE alignment which to date have been disguised in a multitude of models. Design/methodology/approach This metastudy of CRE alignment models u...

Purpose One of the long-standing issues in the field of corporate real estate management is the alignment of an organisation’s real estate to its corporate strategy. To date, 14 models for corporate real estate (CRE) alignment have been made, as well as four comparative studies about CRE alignment. Some of the CRE alignment models indicate that th...

This paper deepens the understanding of Corporate Real Estate (CRE) alignment through a meta-study of twenty existing alignment models. A qualitative hermeneutic method interpreted the models and their articles. This holistic analysis found alignment to be more complex and pluralistic than the individual models assumed. Four dimensions operating si...

Het ‘Smart tools on campus’ onderzoek is gestart naar aanleiding van een probleem dat bekend is voor zowel gebruikers als campus managers: gereserveerde maar (deels) ongebruikte of onderbenutte ruimte. Het lijkt erop dat smart tools een belangrijke bijdrage kunnen leveren aan het oplossen van voorgenoemd probleem en daarmee van toegevoegde waarde v...

In this book chapter Theo van der Voordt and Monique Arkesteijn discuss the differences between corporate and public real estate management i.e. the perspective of the end users, and real estate management i.e. the perspective of investors and developers. Furthermore an overview is presented of the legacy of the (C)REM section of the Department of...

This book presents a huge number of contributions about corporate and public real estate management, urban development management, design and construction management, and housing. The book is a Liber Amicorum for prof. Hans de Jonge to mark his farewell as professor of Real Estate Management and Development at the Faculty of Architecture and the Bu...

Om te toetsen of nieuwe of bestaande gebouwen passen bij de visie, missie en strategie van de organisatie is het noodzakelijk om toetsbare prestatie eisen te formuleren en deze eisen te kunnen vergelijken met de daadwerkelijke gebouwprestaties. Dit artikel beschrijft het model Prestatie Vastgoed waarmee de gewenste en feitelijke vastgoedprestaties...

Corporate or public organizations often own a real estate portfolio which has been acquired to serve certain organizational goals. However, some buildings in the portfolio might no longer serve these goals and could be sold or, conversely, buildings that could serve goals can be acquired. Choosing the combination of interventions that meets these d...

There is a gap between investment and operating costs of public school buildings in the Netherlands. This gap is caused by separated responsibility for the financing of the accommodation for the primary and secondary schools. Municipalities finance the initial costs of construction of these schools and school boards are responsible for the operatin...

Steeds meer gemeenten hebben gekozen voor de oprichting van een sterk gecentraliseerd vastgoedbedrijf. Dit zou moeten leiden tot efficiënter omgaan met vastgoed en tot meer mogelijkheden om ruimtelijke ontwikkelingen en sociaal beleid in de stad te sturen en te realiseren. Centralisatie van het vastgoedbeheer leidt er niet automatisch toe dat gemee...

Delft www.bk.tudelft.nl/re-h Assistant professor, Department of Real Estate & Housing, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. Monique teaches and investigates how to design corporate real estate strategies. She is the coordinator of the educational module Corporate Real Estate Management (crem) and also working as a freelance cons...