What is it about?
The real estate situation in several European countries globally exposes the need for changing the housing strategies in accordance with the housing market’s volatility and peoples’ needs. Better understanding of migration and logistics flows, related to city dynamics and associated risks to enable good facility management and forecasting of supply and demand for service and products in cities, have to be key element of housing strategies.
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Why is it important?
The inhabitants’ need for housing, facility management, social services, health services, etc., changes during the lifetime. For inhabitant’s independent living, housing and services are important prerequisites during their entire life. Ageing communities and empty residential places force us to understand the logistics flows related to city dynamics in a way to answer on it by enabling better facility management and forecasting of supply and demand for services and products.
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This co-authored article was made during the research project “OSCAR – Value for User and Owner of Buildings” (2014-2018), with a main intention ‘to develop competences, methods and analysis tools for optimizing building design in a way to contribute to value creation for owner and end-user throughout its life time’. Smart urban growth was one of the topics investigated.
Associate professor Knut Boge
Norges miljo- og biovitenskapelige universitet
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This page is a summary of: Increasing attractiveness by LCC facility management orientation, IFAC-PapersOnLine, January 2015, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.06.073.
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