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Cortes Vargas, Tania (author)Context<br/> The “take-make-dispose” linear model has proven to be highly unsustainable during the past decades. A circular economy has emerged as a model that is restorative by design, and a response towards the high material and energy intensive linear model. However, a transition to a circular built environment implies a radical change in...master thesis 2019
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Gerding, Ditte (author)The purpose of this master thesis is to gather information from current practices and make recommendations to facilitate implementation of circularity in the building process. The past years, circularity has become a popular term in the built environment. This approach prefers a more circular way of perceiving the building process. Literature...master thesis 2019
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Huitema, Lianne (author)With tackling the problems of resource depletion and waste, the currently booming topic of a circular economy (CE) comes up. This concept goes beyond the processes of reusing and recycling products and looks at the entire material and energy loops of products. The current economy, or linear economy, is still the status quo where products are...master thesis 2018
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Vancso, Dora (author)Our world and environment is facing a multitude of complex and intertwined environmental problems. Man made climate change, caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and causing an array of negative environmental effects. The raw material input and throughput currently necessary to sustain our human activities which create large...master thesis 2018
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Landsman, Oda (author)Festivals are a growing trend, and although being a temporary event, most festivals have vast material flows with a large negative impact on the environment. The Dutch festival Lowlands, a three-day event, for example uses 300.000 kwh of electricity generated by diesel-fuelled generators, 10.000 m3 water and 500.000 kg of solid waste (Amsterdam...master thesis 2018
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Groet, Imme (author)Cities today account for approximately 75% of the global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The process of urbanization increases emissions and places an increasing pressure on resources and livability in urban areas. While challenged with the effects of climate change, governments show increasing interest in integrating sustainable development in...master thesis 2018
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Potemans, Astrid (author)A circular economy has gained attention as a potential solution to the tension between the increasing demand for and the limited supply of materials. The construction industry consumes a great amount of global resources and generates a great amount of waste, and can contribute to the shift towards a circular economy by means of a more circular...master thesis 2017
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Kane, G.M. (author)Up to 40% of medical equipment in the developing world is broken, largely due to lack of repair and maintenance. This report investigates the possibility of improving repair by making use fo remote communication technologies. Research is performed at a User Interaction and Systems level and combined to create the design of a remote servicing...master thesis 2016
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Urra Llanusa, J.C. (author)This project has been developed within the context of a startup company that aims to improve the problem of limited stroke recovery of the upper limb in the Netherlands. The company's value proposition consists of addressing this problem by means of artificially assisted therapy. The specific mission of this project has been to reconsider the...master thesis 2016
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Gao, Y. (author)Circular economy is an economic model aiming at decoupling economic growth from the consumption of finite resources. It attracts attention to system changes at all levels, and Taoyuan City Government devotes itself to the circular economy development as well. Nevertheless, the Taoyuan environmental protection park, with the early ambition of...master thesis 2016
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van der Laan, A.J. (author)This master thesis describes and evaluates the development of living units for adaptive reuse. In many cases buildings that lose their function over time are destined to be demolished to make space for new estate, however these buildings are often ideal for adaptive reuse. The project was initiated due to a lack of appropriate solutions...master thesis 2016
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Tseggai, S. (author)A wastewater treatment plant is redesigned as an ‘infinite mine’, from which the residues are used for a structural composite. The goal of the project was to make a construction material of uniform and consistent biomass waste streams, giving an impulse to reindustrializing Parkstad Limburg, former coal mining area in the south of the...master thesis 2016
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Djoegan, C.E.S. (author), Van den Reek, D.L. (author)Despite circular economy being a phenomenon more and more are familiar with, the actual implementation is practically unknown to most. Especially in the construction industry, a conservative industry in nature, the translation of a circular economy seems to be absent. This research makes this translation, in which the changes in the financial...master thesis 2016
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Van der Leer, J.G.G. (author)Waste is one of the core problems in sustainable city design. In current city planning waste management systems are often disregarded. However, concepts that deal with waste and resources within urban areas are getting more and more attention. ‘Zero waste’ is one of the most visionary concepts for solving waste problems. The concept of the zero...master thesis 2016
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Kazemi, A. (author)In recent years the concept of Circular Economy (CE) has gained momentum in business and the built environment. The reason for this boost, can be traced back to the recent economic crisis and the new wave of disruptive innovation in the construction industry. Besides, the current state of construction projects, linear construction, is full of...master thesis 2016
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Michael, C. (author)While the extracted resources on our planet become more and more scarcer, the construction industry keeps being the number one user of them and the number one waste generator. At the same time, a new type of Circular Economy has been presented where nothing can be considered as waste. This thesis is approaching this topic by examining ways of...master thesis 2016
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Ackermans, S.F. (author)This project aimed to research the perspective of companies on the relationship between sustainability and circular business models. This was done by first looking at how literature describes the relationship between sustainability and the circular economy/circular business models. With this as a basis, thirteen different multinational companies...master thesis 2016
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Dzjind, T. (author)Just in the last decade alone, over 300 Million Game Consoles have been sold globally. When all stacked up, the height is three times the distance to the moon. With even shorter lifecycles forecasted due to technological advancements (i.e. Virtual Reality), the pace in which consoles become obsolete will increase dramatically in the near future....master thesis 2016
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Shyam, S. (author)Mobile phones are undoubtedly an important part of our daily lives and activities. With the avid use and rapid upgrade patterns of mobile phones in current consumer lifestyle comes a wasteful disposal process. The high speed at which mobile phones are left for obsolescent makes the electronic waste problem that they bring with them a target of...master thesis 2016