Assistant Professor of Building Economics

Architecture & the Built Environment

Level: PhD degree
Maximum employment: Maximum of 38 hours per week (1 FTE)
Duration of contract: Tenure track 
Salary scale: €3259 to €4462 per month gross

In its 105 years of existence the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment has built up a solid international reputation for training architects and urban planners and guiding doctoral students. With some 3,000 students and around 600 staff members, including around 200 FTEs devoted to scientific personnel, our faculty is one of the largest educational programmes of TU Delft and is one of the most prestigious architecture faculties in Europe. The faculty has long been known for providing a thorough design education and conducting research in the field of the built environment. Around 30 Professors carry out work in a diverse range of academic areas, which together cover the entire field of the built environment. For more information, see bk.tudelft.nl.

The Department of Real Estate and Housing (RE&H) provides education and performs scientific research in the management of the built environment. RE&H helps to meet the growing demand for building engineers with the necessary knowledge and skills relating to the management aspects of the initiation, development, and design of the built environment. The department has an annual MSc student intake of about 80.

The field of building economics applies economic principles to planning, developing, financing, designing, constructing, using and operating buildings, areas and real estate stocks. The Assistant Professor specialises in applying economics theories and concepts to the workings of the real estate market and its three interrelated markets: the space market, the asset market and the construction and development market. He/she will be able to identify, interpret and elaborate the economic considerations inherent to these markets and their influence on developments in the built environment. Together with three Assistant Professors/lecturers, he/she supports the main scientific disciplines of the Real Estate and Housing Department in the application and understanding of economic theories and concepts.

Job description

As Assistant Professor of Building Economics you provide scientific leadership in teaching and research in building economics. Building economics is addressed in various courses in the faculty, particularly in the MSc curriculum of RE&H, and organises an elective course 'Real Estate Valuation'. You are partly responsible for the content and structure of the building economics education programme.

You participate in the research programme 'Innovation and Management in the Built Environment' in which you:

• Acquire and conduct top-level research projects in building economics.
• Publish and edit articles in leading international scientific journals, conference proceedings and national professional publications.

You also lead research, emphasising the integration of financial value (value-in-exchange) and qualitative aspects of buildings (value-in-use), and the intersections of property stock, market conditions and real estate valuation.

A Tenure Track, a process leading up to a permanent appointment with the prospect of becoming an Associate or full Professor, offers young, talented academics a clear and attractive career path. During the Tenure Track, you will have the opportunity to develop into an internationally acknowledged and recognised academic. We offer a structured career and personal development programme designed to offer individual academics as much support as possible. For more information about the Tenure Track and the personal development programme, please visit www.tudelft.nl/tenuretrack.

Requirements

Applicants should have the following qualifications:

• A PhD obtained at an internationally recognised institution.
• Scientific research capabilities in the field of Building economics or related domains – (Real Estate) Economics and Finance or Urban Economics and Land Use - as demonstrated by international publications.
• Thorough knowledge of and the capabilities to further expand the field of building economics.
• Practical experience with the construction or real estate sectors relevant to the position.
• Teaching experience and the didactic and communication skills needed for knowledge transfer and project supervision.
• The ability to work at the management and administrative level required by the position.
• Demonstrated competence in written and spoken English, and the willingness to learn Dutch.

Conditions of employment

The position offered is a tenure-track position for a period of five years. Based on performance indicators agreed upon the start of the appointment, a decision will be made in the final year to offer you a permanent faculty position. TU Delft offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, free high-speed Internet access from home, and the option of assembling a customised compensation and benefits package (the 'IKA'). Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. TU Delft sets specific standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. If you have less than five years of experience and have not yet obtained your teaching certificate, we allow you up to three years to complete this.

Information and application

For more information about this position, please contact Philip Koppels Msc, phone: +31 (0)15-2788497, e-mail: p.w.koppels@tudelft.nl.To apply, please send a detailed CV, publication list and details of two references along with a letter of application by 16 April 2014 to Prof. Hans de Jonge, HR-BK@tudelft.nl via the Apply button below. When applying for this position, please refer to vacancy numberBK2014-06. A guest lecture will be part of the selection procedure.