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Climate change is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time. Since the built environment plays a
significant role in this problem, it is also one of the areas in which sustainable change can help to solve
the issue. At the moment, commercial buildings, offices in particular, are not used efficiently, with
almost half of all office space being vacant during the working day. This vacancy can be traced back to
a mismatch between user needs and market supply, which occurs when the office building cannot change
swiftly enough to match shifts in demand. Overall, this vacancy results in waste of space, money,
materials, and energy, which is not sustainable. A potential solution for this issue is to design and
construct more flexible office buildings, raising the question of whether flexibility can impact
sustainability in multiple ways. The existing literature about the relationships between flexibility and
sustainability is limited, and a clear overview of these relationships is yet to be established. This
research, therefore, aimed to fill this knowledge gap by addressing the main question: What role can
flexibility play with regards to the sustainability of office real estate?