Department of Property welcomes Professor Hilde Remøy for international seminar on adaptive reuse

The Department of Property at the University of Auckland Business School welcomed Professor Hilde Remøy from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, for an online research seminar held on Tuesday 14 July 2026.

Professor Remøy presented on the topic Adaptive Reuse of Existing Real Estate: Decision Support Frameworks. Her presentation examined adaptive reuse as an essential strategy for achieving a sustainable built environment, arguing that this requires approaches that go beyond traditional financial real estate metrics to incorporate broader social and environmental impacts across the lifecycle of buildings.

Drawing on case studies from the Netherlands, Professor Remøy discussed the financial, societal, and environmental implications of adaptive reuse across temporal dimensions and multiple spatial scales, and their implications for real estate and urban value. The session also explored how adaptive reuse and heritage transformation can be supported through decision-making frameworks within complex governance contexts.

Professor Remøy is Professor of Real Estate Management and Head of the Real Estate Management section at TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. Her research focuses on sustainable real estate, adaptive reuse, and circularity in the built environment, with particular emphasis on the value, lifespan, and transformation of existing buildings. She has led major European and national research projects and published extensively, including several books on building adaptation. A former president of the European Real Estate Society, she is also an editor of the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate.

The seminar attracted strong participation from academic staff and doctoral researchers, who joined online for the presentation and the discussion that followed. The session formed part of the Department of Property's ongoing seminar series, which connects the department with leading international scholars in property and urban research, and reflected the department's continued commitment to fostering international academic exchange.