Project Manager’s Influence on Safeguarding Sustainability Goals and Ambitions: A Qualitative Research on Understanding the Project Manager's Ability to Influence Design Teams toward Safeguarding Sustainability Goals and Ambitions during the Design Phase of Building Projects

Sustainability has gained significant importance in the building industry due to its impact on energy consumption, resource utilization, waste generation, and CO2 emissions. The responsibility for ensuring sustainable building construction often falls on project managers, tasked to lead teams and successfully deliver building projects. Project...

Redevelopment of the Riverfront of Rosario: Civil Engineering Consultancy Project

This study aims to create a redevelopment plan for the riverfront of Rosario by proposing a new spatial plan. This redevelopment plan is based on four themes that fall in line with the vision of the municipality in order for the riverfront to reach its full potential. These four themes are accessibility, safety, innovation and sustainability...

Piece small jacket removal vs. single lift jacket removal: Development of a method for deciding on optimal jacket removal methods

Marine contractors as Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) have made decommissioning part of their core business. Being the owner of two of the largest semi-submersible crane vessels (SSCVs), the choice for single lift jacket removal is straightforward. However, jackets in the Northern North Sea have a weight and height exceeding the crane capacity...

Ciclo Sampa: A generalised bicycle network design applied to Sao Paulo

Nowadays the city of São Paulo has to deal with a lot of traffic jams. Extending the road network is no option and the public transport network cannot keep up with the capacity either. A solution must be found in another type of transport: cycling. The current bicycle infrastructure is not sufficient in terms of connectivity. In this research, a...