Projects
LCC ECOTOOP: Life Cycle Costs as economic success factor Tetra Design, Maintenance and Planning of Residential Real Estate Ghent University
Within the PROJECT, the focus is on residential buildings in co-ownership. Alie gathered relevant technical knowledge about the building envelope, supplemented by the new specific management-related knowledge developed in this PROJECT, is translated into simple deployable tools and matrices according to the needs of the different target groups of the PROJECT:
- template valuation of buildings instead of maintenance and residual value; ...
Planning without borders: investigating characteristics and outcomes of strategic planning in international public administrations. Ghent University
Consistently ranking among the most popular managerial approaches worldwide, strategic planning has become a centerpiece of public managers and policymakers’ toolbox to help answer fundamental questions about their organization, its aspirations and the capabilities needed to meet those aspirations. Strategic planning’s popularity can be explained by the assumption that it contributes to public service performance. Evidence to validate this ...
Regional economic policy in Belgium: origins, evolution and impact on the economic structures. KU Leuven
Strategic interactions in the marine spatial planning game. Observation, interpretation, integration Ghent University
This PhD research aims at analysing strategic behaviours of one or more stakeholders, related to the development and enforcement of marine spatial planning (MSP) in Europe. The analysis of the position of nature conservation (NC) in the MSP process was taken as a starting point for the exploration of strategic interactions between stakeholders at sea. The assumption that NC is at the center of MSP development was elaborated. Through ...
Operating room planning and scheduling under uncertainty: Modeling, analysis and optimization KU Leuven
In hospitals, the operating theater usually accounts for the largest source of revenues and incurs a similarly large part of the hospital’s total expenses. It also has a major influence on the performance of the whole hospital. Therefore, the efficient planning and scheduling of the operating rooms (ORs) is imperative. This dissertation aims to provide important insights for efficiently planning OR capacity and scheduling surgeries in a ...
Research and development project on the spatial planning issue in the Rupel region in the context of developments within Flanders Technology & Innovation University of Antwerp
SYTADEL – Logistics data space in Flanders applied to synchromodal planning University of Antwerp
Greenways as a New Planning Strategy in the Pearl River Delta, China KU Leuven
The term of greenway is a derivation from greenbelt and parkway, which refer to linear green open spaces that serve for ecological, recreational, cultural, aesthetic, or other purposes compatible with the concept of sustainable land use. In the 1990s, the greenway movement in the world arose as a response, driven by basic human needs, to urbanization. In the diverse contexts, greenways have been an adaptive ...