De huidige bouwsector kent een hoge milieubelasting. Dit komt door de winning van, de voor productie van bouwmaterialen, benodigde grondstoffen. Bij de winning van deze grondstoffen wordt veel fossiele brandstof verbruikt. De productie van halffabricaten (bijvoorbeeld gewalste profielen) veroorzaakt …

Adviesburo Smeets b.v. adviseert woningcorporaties bij groot-onderhoudswerken om tot de juiste aanbestedingsmethode te komen. De wens is om adviezen die nu gebaseerd zijn op ervaring van medewerkers sterker te maken door middel van een instrumentarium welke het advies ondersteunt. De hoofdvraag voor …

The demographic, economic and societal changes in the near the future will have its impact on the quality of life and the build environment in vinex-suburbs. This project near Utrecht proposes a re-urbanization of the Vinex. Through reprogramming, based on a balanced scenario, self-organization and transformation …

To ensure stability for ships, ballast water is often used to correct or adjust the list or trim of a ship. After loading the ballast water is often carried across the ocean and discharged in an area with another aquatic environment. As a result, invasive species can end up in the water and effect the …

Change agent capacity-building compendium.Due to increasing globalization, technological advances and sociological changes, the world is becoming more complex than ever. Complexity has gone from large systems, to organizational and individual levels. Today it concerns all aspects of society. The will …

Particuliere woningbezitters overwegen met regelmaat hun woongebouw te verbeteren, bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van duurzaamheid, energieverbruik of toekomstbestendigheid. In een gebouw met een vereniging van eigenaars (VvE), waarbij het eigendom van het gebouw is gesplitst over meerdere (rechts)personen, …

”Landscape as House” is about animating my families landscape through a new form of topographic living: a frag-mented house embedded into forests, meadows and the village. This house creates a life constituted of movement through landscape, on the scale of a farmers ground, with rooms inhabiting its …

Autonomous driving in public roads requires precise localization within the range of few centimeters. Even the best current precise localization system based on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) can not always reach this level of precision, especially in an urban environment, where the signal …

In product design engineering education, classes in engineering mechanics are often difficult, unrewarding and unsatisfying for both students and lecturers. Within the Product Design Engineering program at Rotterdam University of Applied Science, a new approach has been developed and tested, leading …

This research is part of the international FRAMES project, a cooperation between the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, and Denmark to share knowledge and experiences with the Multi-Layer Safety approach. The shared data is used to build sustainable strategies and improve the capacity of …