How can you create added value with the learn/work environment? In response to this question, René Stevens developed the Real Estate General Performance Survey (RE-GPS). It is important to have a holistic vision, in which a conductor ensures that the various parts of the learn/work environment are tuned to each other in such a way…
Accommodation management is about strategic business assets that can contribute more than just efficiency. Benefits, costs, effectiveness and efficiency are inextricably linked. They can be distinguished, but cannot be separated. When benchmarking facility costs (NEN-EN 15221 Facility Management), lower costs are often assessed as positive in advance. Facility costs are proportional to the other expenses…
Just like consumer lifestyles and business styles for organisations, the educational concept or style of education has a direct relationship with (school) accommodation. Last winter we wrote the Dutch article ‘The education is certainly good!’. In short, this article boiled down to the following: “As (future) parents, we often assume that education is certainly going…
In the project Eunoia II (Beautiful thought) the artist Lisa Park puts her feelings on display. With biosensors and a brainwave sensor (EEG) headset, she made the invisible energy of emotions visible. Lisa believes that what is inside us, more than 60% of water in the human body, will create vibrations/energy within ourselves. So we…
Check out this wonderful animation about the Golden Key or Golden Ratio by Jonathan Quintin. The golden ratio is the golden thread that weaves its way through the tapestry of creation, uniting diverse and contrasting elements into a harmonious whole. The beauty of 1:1.618… (PHI or the Fibonacci Spiral), sacred geometry & universal order. Connecting…
In this SPRYG Real Estate Academy Webinar ‘Inspiring workplaces that promote value creation’ (in Dutch), René Stevens explains the operation of the Real Estate General Performance Survey® (RE-GPS) business model. The relationship between the Strategic Alignment Model, the Real Estate Dupont Analysis and the Real Estate Norm is discussed. A Real Estate GPS system to…
René Stevens gave a guest lecture ‘The Architect as Business Optimizer’ to the first-year Architecture students of the Eindhoven University of Technology – where innovation starts. “Added value of the built environment is a result of the mix of features (performance) that are relevant to the occupant: Functional performance + Esthetical performance + Technical performance…
René Stevens, general manager and business architect at ATELIER V, will be the moderator of the SPRYG Summer College 2016 ‘Inspiring Workspaces’. The program consists of: Trends in offices and workplaces Wouter Oosting is Senior Director Workplace Strategies & Design, CBRE Netherlands. He gives you an overview of current research into global trends in offices…
Alignment of Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) + Facility Management (FM) + Information Communication Technology (ICT) + Human Resource Management (HRM) = VALUE CREATION. Coherence between strategic ambitions and deployment of the corporate resources: real estate / FM / ICT / HRM promotes dialogue about mutual coordination and consistency. At natural moments, such as performance…
Is the price of real estate equal to the subjective value attributed to it? Is the value of real estate equal to the (market) price? Or in plain language; is the value of real estate equal to what the fool gives for it? A clearer distinction is made between price and value through the use…