Title
Integrating Environmental Sustainability in Construction and Real Estate Management Education
Author
Mlecnik, E. (TU Delft Real Estate Management) 
Qian, QK (TU Delft Design & Construction Management)
Straub, A. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management)
Ersoy, A. (TU Delft Urban Development Management)
Remøy, H.T. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)
Gruis, V.H. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)
Hobma, Fred (TU Delft Design & Construction Management)
Rooij, R.M. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy)
Vande Putte, H.J.M. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)
van Bortel, G.A. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)
Roeling, M.M. (TU Delft Environmental & Climate Design)
Contributor
Wall, Tony (editor)
Viera Trevisan, Laís (editor)
Leal Filho, Walter (editor)
Shore, Adam (editor)
Date
2024
Abstract
It is recommended to integrate specific management competencies in academic education to support the transition towards environmentally sustainable practices, particularly in the construction and real estate sector. This paper explores how architectural management education can integrate environmental sustainability within its current university programmes. In recent years TU Delft explored and experimented with various education initiatives to bring forward environmental sustainability knowledge and to connect with policy, societal and industry practices. This paper describes what we learned from both bottom-up and top-down initiatives implementing environmental sustainability in construction and real estate management education. Bottom-up educational initiatives show that knowledge about transition policies, stakeholder experiences, business models and management practices from a European perspective can help students across the globe to apply knowledge into their local context, reflecting on the overarching management principals across stakeholders, institutions, academic disciplines and cultures. Top-down initiatives show that the university has a vision on integrating sustainability in its curriculum, but that integrating environmental sustainability in construction and real estate management education is still challenging. Adapting the academic curriculum to integrate building and portfolio responses to environmental challenges might be a way forward and the experiences from numerous elective courses and educational initiatives can be a basis to identify the development of a future standard curriculum.
Subject
education
environmental sustainability
real estate management
architecture
buildings
construction
urban development
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55996-9_11
Publisher
Springer, Cham
Embargo date
2024-10-07
ISBN
978-3-031-55995-2
Source
Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices
Series
World Sustainability Series, 2199-7373, Part F2523
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
book chapter
Rights
© 2024 E. Mlecnik, QK Qian, A. Straub, A. Ersoy, H.T. Remøy, V.H. Gruis, Fred Hobma, R.M. Rooij, H.J.M. Vande Putte, G.A. van Bortel, M.M. Roeling