Underused buildings - Decision-making

The costed option appraisal is a method of determining the most profitable development options for any given building. In short, the technique involves estimating the value of a property after restoration and subtracting the cost of (...)

The Wellington Rooms, a grade II listed building – originally used for high society dance balls and latterly as the city’s Irish Centre – was closed in 1997 and subsequent regeneration proposals have failed to get off (...)

To develop, visualise and discuss possible solutions and new ideas for the re-use of the former prison ‘KPD’ in Maribor the municipality in cooperation with the local university organised a student workshop and idea (...)

The city of Brussels has developed three main activities to find out abandoned and unoccupied buildings for a systematic inventory of vacant buildings. The database assembles relevant information about these buildings and provides a geographic (...)