Worldwide (status, development and) impact assessment of geoportals

At this moment, numerous (catalogue) geoportals have been established and it is expected that many more geoportals will be implemented in the future. To the best of our knowledge, not many status, development and impact assessment studies have been performed with regard to all these initiatives (certainly not on a worldwide scale). It is very...

HERMES Case: Rational monitoring of ASR on bridges

HERMES Case: Risk management using a checking role

Dynatrack: A survey of dynamic railway track properties and their quality

Example application of reliability assessment of coastal structures

During the last few decades the believe that absolute security could be provided has been recognized to be mistaken in many branches of engineering. This happens as a consequence of the imperfect predictability of load intensity, structural characteristics and structural behavior, as well as a consequence of human gross errors during the design...

Discussion paper: Issues related to conducting a global studio

The purpose of this paper is to initiate discussion and guide a proposed workshop on issues in cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary design studios, with a focus on assessment. This paper overviews issues associated with the implementation and coordination of the Global Studio, a recent cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional teaching...