The DCM section is now seeking an assistant professor to join the team as we expand into the emerging area of digital transformation of the AEC sector.  The successful candidate for this Tenure Track position will be part of the DCM team, and  pursue its mission: to develop useful academic concepts, tools and principles for the management of the design, construction, and maintenance of architectural (re)developments to meet the demand for a high performance, flexible, sustainable and circular built environment.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated potential for developing research leadership in relevant areas that can contribute to more sustainable and circular ways of designing, constructing and renovating the built environment.  More specifically, you will have a good understanding of key and related concepts of business models (e.g. value propositions and value co-creation, revenue streams and customer segmentation, partner networks, design thinking etc.) in the context of disruptive innovation.  You should demonstrate awareness (and preferably a track record) of research on product-service systems and performance (or outcomes)-based value creation in technological and business ecosystems in the production of the built environment.  It is vital that you connect the theories or theoretical perspectives with practice, and therefore able to relate your research expertise with current industry and technological developments and challenges.

The ideal candidate will also work naturally in a transdisciplinary research and educational context that builds on meaningful engagements with industry and societal stakeholders.  You will build your personal academic profile, recognized by the international academic community and communities of practice. To this end, you will:

• publish in authoritative international journals, play a role in international conferences and networks, and collaborate with the professional community in developing applications of your academic findings.
• initiate and co-author proposals for research grants and funding, and be responsible for particular courses, educational tasks and coordinating activities in teaching in both the BSc. and MSc. Programmes within the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.

A Tenure Track is a process leading up to a permanent appointment with the prospect of becoming an Associate and/or Full Professor.  It offers young, talented academics a clear and attractive career path.  In Delft, you will have the opportunity to develop into an internationally acknowledged and recognised academic, for which you will be supported by a structured career and personal development programme.  For more information about the Tenure Track and the personal development programme, please visit: www.tudelft.nl/tenuretrack

Applicants for either of the two positions should have a PhD degree obtained at an internationally recognised institution, with research skills in fields relevant to the AEC industry in general, and business model innovation relevant to the AEC industry in particular.  We are open to a broad range of fields including e.g. economics, engineering, innovation studies, management and organisational studies, science and technology studies, and studies of sociotechnical and sustainable transitions.  Applicants should also demonstrate an interest in the areas that the section is seeking to grow influence in (as described in the job description above), evidenced in the academic peer-reviewed publications.  In addition, the applicant should have thorough knowledge of and clear ideas for expanding the field of design and construction management.  Practical experience with managing AEC projects or processes will be highly valued, as well as experience in teaching academic courses and supervising graduation research projects.  The applicant should also be able to show management and administrative skills required for the position, and demonstrated competence in written and spoken English, and the willingness to learn Dutch.

Fixed-term contract: five years, with the prospect of a tenured position.

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 on offering you a permanent faculty position. TU Delft offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible workweek and a system for assembling customised compensations.  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, for which it also offers state-of-the-art training. Inspiring, excellent (applied) academic education and research is our central aim.  If you have less than five years of experience and have not yet obtained an internationally recognised University Teaching Qualification (UTQ), we allow you up to three years to complete this.

Technische Universiteit Delft

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is a multifaceted institution offering education and carrying out research in the technical sciences at an internationally recognised level. Education, research and design are strongly oriented towards applicability. TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety and economic vitality. At TU Delft you will work in an environment where technical sciences and society converge. TU Delft comprises eight faculties, unique laboratories, research institutes and schools.

Faculty Architecture & the Built Environment

Architecture and the Built Environment

The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment is now searching for two assistant professors to join the interdisciplinary field of Design and Construction Management.  TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment strives to make significant contributions to solving some of the world’s most pressing societal problems.  It does so by conducting original design, engineering and management research in and for the built environment, and by providing Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD programs to students from all over the world.  The faculty’s internationally-renowned position (ranked 3rd in world and 1st in the Netherlands according to the QS subject rankings 2018 and 2019) highlights the excellent facilities, offering an interdisciplinary network for its 500 employees and 3.000 students.  The faculty generates ideas, solutions, and knowledge for and with all relevant industries in the pursuit of a sustainable, resilient and enabling built environment. With its academic research and education programs, the Department of Management in the Built Environment (MBE) helps to meet the growing demand for architects, urban planners and building engineers with knowledge and skills related to managing design, planning, and (re)development processes in the built environment.

Design and Construction Management (DCM)

The Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector faces higher performance demands for its products and services, in part due to the need to address the grand societal challenges of sustainable development.  In the context of rapid urbanisation, there are tensions between the provision of decent affordable housing and facilities on the one hand, and the urgency to address the environmental and ecological crisis on the other.  To respond to these challenges, the Design and Construction Management (DCM) section is undertaking research and education around new ways of reconfiguring work processes in designing, constructing and renovating the built environment to create a circular economy that emphasises greater responsiveness, reliablity, quality and resource efficiency in the through-life delivery of built environment projects.  These new ways of working also call for technological innovation and a fundamental rethink of the business models that govern the sector, in order to facilitate more integrative methods of connecting people and technologies to drive better built environment and societal outcomes.The DCM section’s ambition to address social, environmental and technological change by radically transforming the ways we produce future built environments is realised by engaging with four challenging themes: (1) technological change and its impacts on ways of designing, constructing and managing built assets; (2) institutions, institutional work and institutional change; (3) how people cope with change, and (4) configurations of systems in producing the built environment.