Navigating the Heat Transition: Effective Stakeholder Decision-Making in Dutch Low-Carbon Heating Projects

The Dutch government's 2050 initiative to transition all buildings from natural gas to sustainable heat systems underscores the critical role of stakeholder alignment in energy transition projects. Despite its importance, existing literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms required for effective stakeholder collaboration in heat...

Biodiversity Implementation in a Multi-Plot Context: Enhancing biodiversity in urban area development projects. A project developer’s perspective

Human activities are dismantling ecosystems and eliminating genes, species, and biotopes at an alarming rate. Habitat fragmentation caused by urbanisation and infrastructure is one of the main causes of the decline in urban biodiversity. Despite challenges, project developers can enhance biodiversity in urban areas by adopting nature-inclusive...

Collaboration during the energy transition in urban development: An exploratory research of the barriers and enablers for collaboration with an energy network operator in a cross-sector partnership in new urban area development projects

The importance of climate change is getting increasingly more attention from all stakeholders in urban development. This results in the energy network operator being increasingly involved in the partnerships needed to realize new urban area development projects. Current projects have been experiencing delays due to the electricity grid not being...

A Co-Design Tool for Medical Product Development

The client of this graduation project, Dune Innovation, aims to facilitate and execute a structured design process for medical device development. This is a complex task most notably during the early ‘discover’ phase, or fuzzy front end. In medical device development, the first stages of the design process are crucial in ensuring the adoption...