Ageing-in-place is the preferred way of living for older individuals in an ageing society. It can be facilitated through architectural and technological solutions in the home environment. Dementia poses additional challenges when designing, constructing, or retrofitting housing facilities that support …

Presentation in workshop A1.2 'A design strategy for energy measurements in historic buildings'.

Ageing-in-place is the preferred way of living for older individuals in an ageing society. It can be facilitated through architectural and technological solutions in the home environment. Dementia poses additional challenges when designing, constructing, or retrofitting housing facilities that support …

The design of healthcare facilities is a complex and dynamic process, which involves many stakeholders each with their own set of needs. In the context of healthcare facilities, this complexity exists at the intersection of technology and society because the very design of these buildings forces us to …

In de jaren ’60 van de vorige eeuw is een deel van de Drachtstervaart gedempt, waardoor boten niet langer het centrum van Drachten konden bereiken. Tijdens het dempen van de vaart is een kokerriool geplaatst die als berging dient voor de riool overstorten. Er zijn plannen ontstaan om de vaart weer open …

Na de aanleg van een parkeergarage is wateroverlast ontstaan in Venlo. Om uitsluitsel te geven over de mogelijke invloeden van variabelen op het grondwater zijn deelvragen geformuleerd. Daarnaast is een beeld verkregen van geologie, hydrologie en de civieltechnische ontwikkelen in Venlo. De bestaande …

The media are an integral part of how advanced societies are controlled. After almost a century of ‘broadcasting’, a new media logic can be seen to have emerged. It is not centralized, nor does it appear to depend on manipulative power (such as the priming and framing of news and thereby the agenda …

Purpose eHealth projects in the Netherlands have various backgrounds. First, the number of persons aged 65 and over will have increased by 400,000 between 2008 and 20131. Over the same period, the potential workforce will have decreased from 4.2 persons at present to 3.6 persons for each 65 plus. Second, …

Assessing the effectiveness and progress of efforts to ‘build states in order to build peace’ (Call and Wyeth, 2008) is inevitable for several reasons. Politicians want to know what is being achieved with the resources that they have allocated to the state building endeavours abroad. They want to judge …