Transformation Zero: From office towards an energy-neutral residential building

With this master thesis, the possibilities are explored to transform the former tax office in Utrecht towards an energy neutral residential building. The Dutch office market is facing a structural vacancy of 4.2 million square meter, that will even increase in the coming decades due to new ways of organizing labour, such as: flex working. The Dutch housing market on the other hand has to deal with a shortage of housings for students and starters in the run to 2025, due to a population growth of 6.6%. Transformation is a solution for both problems. It involves the rezoning of structural vacant office buildings to residential buildings. The Dutch government established in 2008 a climate agreement ‘Lenteakkoord 2008’, in which sustainable developments should lead mid-2020 to energy neutral buildings. This target is unlikely to be achieved for transformation developments. This is mainly due to the lack of knowledge in the field of transformations from structural vacant office buildings to energy-neutral residential buildings. In this graduation research are the possibilities explored to see if it is possible to transform vacant office buildings to energy neutral residential buildings. In order to ensure the feasibility of this graduation thesis there is searched for a practical case that meets the current problems and characteristics on the office market, so the boundary conditions are set. The former tax office in Utrecht at the Gerbrandystraat 20 revealed to be ideally suited and is therefor chosen as a case study for this graduation research. Main objective ‘The transformation of the former tax office in Utrecht towards an energy neutral residential building. Research question (How) Is it possible to transform the former tax office in Utrecht to an energy-neutral residential building?

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transformation
energy-neutral

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2012-11-06

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