Print Email Facebook Twitter Obsolescence – understanding the underlying processes Title Obsolescence – understanding the underlying processes Author Thomsen, A.F. (TU Delft OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation) Date 2017 Abstract Obsolescence, defined as the process of declining performance of buildings, is a serious threat for the value, the usefulness and the life span of built properties. Thomsen and van der Flier (2011) developed a model in which obsolescence is categorised on the basis of two distinctions, i.e. between endogenous and exogenous cause-effect relationships and between physical and behavioural cause-effect relationships. In this way, the model presents a classification of underlying factors of obsolescence. However, these underlying factors, more specifically the underlying cause-effect relations, are still a black box. In this paper, the box is further disclosed by tracking back the underlying processes, resulting in a series of prototypes of detailed hypothetic cause-effect mechanisms. Applied to the adapted model, the results are initially tested on an iconic chocolate factory. Conclusions are drawn about the results and more generally about the usability and the further development of the model. Subject life cycle analysisobsolescenceconversion non-residentialfeasibilitybuilding pathology To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:35e2ff53-8689-4e42-b101-db50eefc3b4a Publisher Delft University of Technology Source Reviewed papers of the 24th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES 2017) Event ERES 2017: 24th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society, 2017-06-28 → 2017-07-01, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 A.F. Thomsen Files PDF ERES17_Thomsen_tx2.pdf 712.6 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:35e2ff53-8689-4e42-b101-db50eefc3b4a/datastream/OBJ/view