Appraisal: From Theory to Practice

This book documents the state of the art and the emerging operational perspectives in the field of the appraisal discipline. It covers a wide range of topics, including energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, socio-economic evaluation of regional and urban transformations, real estate and facility management, risk management. It also discusses the potential role of appraisal in minimising unexpected consequences; the role of evaluators in urban development projects as well as the contribution of several methodologies with respect to the overall planning and design processes; the need to manage the complexity of the current decision contexts, while at the same time promoting efficient and effective evaluation processes; improving the quality of discussion and communication of the outcomes of evaluation processes; as well as the appropriateness of current regulation and policy regimes (EU, national, regional etc.). It comprises a selection of thebest papers presented at the SIEV 2015 conference "Appraisal: Current Issues and Problems", which was held in Bari, Italy, in July 2015, and brought together architects, engineers, urban planners, decision-makers and government representatives.

Covers energy, economic as well as environmental issues Presents the state of the art in the fields of urban development and appraisal Offers a special focus on European planning cultures

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Appraisal of Manufacturing Buildings through the Depreciated Replacement Cost Approach.- Do Real Estate Cycles Exist and, If So, Are They Predictable?.- The Mass Appraisal Tool: Application of a Pluri-parametric Model for the Appraisal of Real Properties.- New Bottom-Up Approaches to Enhance Public Real/Estate Property.- A Strategic Environmental Assessment of a Possible Direct Road Connection between Veneto Region and Central Europe.- An Integrated Model for Ex-Ante Evaluation of Flood Damage to Residential Building.- Forms and Functions of the Real Estate Market of Palermo. Science and Knowledge in the Cluster Analysis Approach.- The Value of Intellectual Capital in Shipping Companies.- Compensation for Land/Property Owners Hosting a Wind Farm. The Italian Case.- Valuing the impact of social housing renovation programs: an application of the Social Return On Investment (SROI).- Decision support methods for public-privatepartnerships: an application to the territorial context of the Apulia Region (Italy).- Gaps and overlaps of urban housing sub-market: hard clustering and fuzzy clustering approaches.- Designing adaptive reuse strategies for cultural heritage with Choice Experiments.