Decision-making framework for enhanced thermal resilience of façade-retrofits

Climate extremes are becoming increasingly frequent and intense worldwide, with greater pressure on ecosystems, the built environment, and humankind. Heat waves, in particular, are overheating indoor spaces and thermal comfort as one of the major comfort requirements of buildings is disrupted or, in the most extreme situations, lost. In extreme...

Fabrication of high temperature carrier-selective passivating contact solar cells for application in monolithic perovskite/c-Si tandem devices

Crystalline silicon (c-Si) homojunction architectures like aluminum back-surface field (Al-BSF) and passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC) dominated the solar cell market for the last decades. Recently, carrier-selective passivating contact (CSPC) designs have shown that they can effectively reduce recombination losses and exhibit efficiencies...

The coastal environment as a laboratory: Architecture and embodied experiences

The long-stretched shadow of my body touches the footprints in the sand in front of me. It is a cold winter afternoon and the sun is already setting. I hear the rhythm of water pulling back and passing under another wave of water. The beach is full of people many of whom presumably visit this place for the same reason as I: “uitwaaien”. While...

On the Application of Shannon Wavelet Inverse Fourier Techniques: An Extension to Asian Option Valuation and European Option Pricing under the SABR Model

This work is on the extension of the SWIFT method to option pricing problems where the sum of lognormals occurs. The SWIFT method (ShannonWavelet Inverse Fourier Technique) is extended to the valuation of geometric Asian options and arithmetic Asian options with a Lévy process as underlying price process and the valuation of European options...

Unit Root Testing for AR(1) Processes

The purpose of this study is to investigate the asymptotics of a first order auto regressive unit root process, AR(1). The goal is to determine which tests could be used to test for the presence of a unit root in a first order auto regressive process. A unit root is present when the root of the characteristic equation of this process equals...

Is project success a coincidence or can it be enforced? A comparative study on the critical success factors of the Stadsbrug Nijmegen project and similar civil engineering projects in the Netherlands

RAMSSHEEP analysis: A tool for risk-driven maintenance. Applied for primary flood defence systems in the Netherlands

Introduction Floods are a threat to millions of people who live in lowlands like the Netherlands. Therefore the Dutch government has been given re-quirements for primary flood defence systems like dikes. The current condition of most of these dikes does not fulfill to these requirements based on flood risk analyses of RWS. The most logical step...

Snoezelen, a way to physical relaxation

Research on costs of armour units: Breakwaters IJmuiden, the Netherlands

Waihi Beach to the future: An objective review

Waihi Beach is a village consisting out of 2300 inhabitants, located in the Bay of Plenty on the North Island of New Zealand. It can be seen as a 9 km long tombolo beach. Dunes used to protect most of the land, but have decreased in size through natural erosive processes and through urban development in the dune areas. The long and short-term...