Preliminary design of a marina in San Antonio Este: For recreational and touristic uses, and a nautical connection with San Antonio Oeste

This design report presents the outcomes of a multidisciplinary project undertaken by a team with diverse backgrounds in civil engineering. The project focuses on a preliminary design for a new marina in San Antonio Este, Argentina, with the purpose of serving as a recreational spot and a terminal for a nautical connection to San Antonio Oeste....

The effectiveness of hempcrete in the reduction of the environmental and financial costs of residences: A case study in the Netherlands

The aim of the current graduation project is the investigation of the potential of using hempcrete for the construction of residences in the Netherlands. The research focuses on the prefabricated block form of the material and investigates different aspects that can play a major role and eventually affect the choice for the selection of the...

Mosaic Garden City: redefining the relation between people and nature by structuring water management through landscape infrastructure in an informal settlement, Kampung Tamansari in Bandung

Slum population has increased continuously in global south. It expands onto precarious land such as floodplains, lagoon areas and so on leading to deficiency of basic facilities. Bandung is the third most populous city in Indonesia with around 26,000 slum dwellings. Kampung Tamansari in Bandung is the densest informal settlement located along...

Meat substitution in the Netherlands: How to further accelerate the green protein transition from an innovation perspective

The research studies the Dutch meat substitution sector from an innovation perspective by applying theories from the field of sustainability transition studies: functions of innovation systems theory and multilevel perspective. This is done in order to gain in-depth knowledge on how the development of the Dutch meat substitute innovations system...

The Salt Project

A research into greening the desert with seawater which proposes the construction of a seawater infrastructure in which seawater is separated into fresh water and salt. The fresh water is used for growing crops in greenhouses, the salt is used for creating architecture. The developed typology is that of a salt factory in which salt building...

Exergy analysis of the Car as Power Plant

The Master’s programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. The Green Village, a project of the TU Delft, developed a solution for a new renewable energy system: The Car as Power Plant. The concept of the Car as Power Plant is that fuel cell cars not only can be used as an efficient and...

UN Headquarters for Sustainability in New York City

The United Nations Environmental Council (UNEC) will be the sixth UN Council and will deal with all the global issues concerning sustainability, searching at the same time all the political, economical and technological information that can be connected with sustainability development. It will be a central organization that consists of four...

United Nations Headquarters for Sustainability / United Nations Environmental Council

The United Nations Environmental Council, the new, 6th Council, will be in charge for the coordination of sustainability issues, such as waste problems, energy problems and securing biodiversity on the planet, aiming to marshal the existing fragmented running programs (such as UNEP) and coordinate these issues on a global level. In other words,...

Building for sustainability - the United Nations Environmental Council

Graduation project on the building design for a new UN council in New York City: the proposed United Nations Environmental Council (UNEC), next to the current UN Headquarters. The building contains a mixed programme of functions: the Council's conference room, auditoria, offices and exposition areas. Sustainable building solutions are integrated...

Implementing Sustainability in the Built Environment

There is a growing desire for sustainable design, both with firms and their clients in the built environment. However sustainability is not always integrated into designs in the same uniform manner, or at the same level. Barriers and carriers exist that influence the design and its level of sustainability for consulting engineering firms....