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Business style determines the choice of an office building. “Independent office space, excellent accessibility, from 200 m2, completely finished with ceilings, concrete floor, toilet and parking space on site.” You would expect that many potential users would be pushing to take up residence in this market-based office building. Reality is different. Apart from the question…
“Show me your home and I’ll tell you who you are”. That this wisdom also applies to offices, according to new research by Motivaction International BV and Atelier V, to which ‘De Zaak’ has exclusive access. Office buildings say a lot if not everything about an organisation and its employees. Do you want to radiate…
Most companies see accommodation as a necessary evil. It only gets management attention when the organisation is doing badly and is looking for cost reductions; if people grow so fast that accommodation cannot be obtained, or if there is too little maintenance reservation, which has created a (financial) mismatch with the real estate market. The…
Nowadays there is a lot of attention for so-called ‘innovative’ office concepts. These give, because of the new interior with the latest IT gadgets, a boost, but you quickly get used to the new. It then feels like a corset that forces you to work in a different way. Usually, there are insufficient strategic considerations.…
More professional Marketing is indispensable for the real estate world. In the current market conditions, it is painfully clear how conservative the Dutch real estate world is. The ultimate wisdom still applies: location, location, location. In the projects that are being developed, more attention is paid to the ego of designers, developers and municipalities than…
Plans for new constructed neighbourhoods and restructuring of existing ones are characterized by collections of buildings and functions. But they do not determine the character of the neighbourhood, it is the people who live there who do that. They share each other’s lives there and want to meet each other. Strangely enough, development plans pay…
The economic recession is a fact. It means death in the office development pot. But aren’t there any positives? Does it not provide a chance for a quality improvement in the office area? Possibly, but on the basis of a carefully considered score, says architect and business administrator René Stevens. This is how ‘buildings with…
In my daily practice at Atelier V, it appears that it is the enthusiasm of the client and his team that breathes life into a soulless set of requirements. It is the things that are not in a brief, but that you read between the lines, the things that people want and that they feel,…
A trade-off between renting or buying is only meaningful if both the influence on the return on the property and the return on the company’s equity is taken into account. Which of the two forms of financing is best differs from case to case. This article lists a number of important ingredients and trade-offs that…
IFMA Holland held its first public meeting in March 2000. During this meeting, it became clear what this new professional association for the Netherlands stands for international orientation in the field and concrete information transfer. A report of the latter in particular. Stevens has encountered an increasingly critical stance where real estate is at issue.…