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Paulien Beeckman

  • category
    junior researcher
  • research group
    Architectural Engineering
  • keywords
    architecture
    planning & development
    engineering

Paulien Beeckman is a PhD researcher at VUB Architetcural Engineering. In 2023, she completed a one year research project on sustainable innovation in the social housing sector. Now she is working on her research on conversion of office buildings to housing.

Paulien Beeckman is a PhD researcher at VUB Architectural Engineering. She obtained her master's degree in Architecural Engineering in 2022 within the Bruface program (VUB-ULB) after which she completed a research project on Sustainable innovation in the social housing sector. in 2023, she received funding by FWO to start a PhD titled: The repurposing of our built environment: Circular reconversion of office buildings to housing under the supervision of prof. dr. ir. arch. Waldo Galle and prof. dr. ir. arch. Niels De Temmerman. This research focuses on the reconversion of offices to housing and how the use of circular strategies could make these projects more affordable.