Possible integrated coastal interventions in Playa Unión and Puerto Rawson: An area prone to coastal erosion

Playa Unión and Puerto Rawson are facing severe coastal erosion and increasingly the negative effects. Since the first half of the 20th century there have been signs of erosion, but also of sedimentation. However, the coastline in the project area is retreating over the years. The situation has recently been declared an emergency. Furthermore,...

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Mobility as a Service applied in residential areas: Stated Choice experiment in the context of Dutch cities

This research has the goal to analyse the influence of neighbourhood characteristics on people’s willingness to adopt Mobility as a Service (MaaS) instead of the car for new residential areas. It estimated the influence of a reduced parking comfort, MaaS-hub availability and aditional quality of the overall neighbourhood on the willingness to...

Risk Allocation in DBFM Projects: Providing Practical Guidance in the Risk Allocation Process of DBFM Projects

The risk allocation in DBFM projects is currently a hot topic, whereby multiple contractors have withdrawn from the procurement of these projects. This research provides a practical guidance in the risk allocation process of DBFM projects, consisting of design principles of literature and lessons learned from practice. The design principles that...

Topologically Optimised Cast Glass Grid Shell Nodes: Exploring Topology Optimisation as a design tool for Structural Cast Glass elements with reduced annealing time

Cast glass is a promising structural material that has seen increasing use in the build environment over the last year. It offers a great freedom of shape for designers and engineers, beyond the two-dimensional float glass that is still primarily used. Despite this, cast glass in practice has only been used for solid bricks, mimicking...

Decreasing the LCoE of Offshore Wind Farms by Improving the Layout Optimisation Process: A research into the benefits and implications of including foundation costs

The design of a combined treatment solution for positional obstructive sleep apnea

Obstructive sleep apnea is an increasingly common disease caused by soft tissue collapsing in the upper airway during (supine) sleep. During apnea, a patient lacks oxygen, resulting in a disturbed sleeping pattern and life threatening symptoms. No combined treatment exists yet with both high efficiacy as patient compliance combined. Literature...

Stressed skin design in offshore modules

Offshore wind power provides an alternative to fossil fuels while negating the effect of visual and auditive distortion of onshore wind turbines. Located several kilometres offshore, the transmission cable resistance becomes substantial. To limit the losses, the voltage in the cables is increased in a substation. As this structure is often the...

Autonomous Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance of a Nonholonomic Four Wheel Steering Robotic Platform

INTERACT is a space technology demonstration experiment in which an advanced wheeled mobile robot (WMR) will be tele-operated from space. The experiment consists of a navigation phase and a manipulation phase. To cope with adverse communication conditions and limited means for control, an autonomous navigation algorithm needs to be developed for...

Garfield Park Cemetery

The project discussed in this book is a design for a cemetery in one of the most suffering parts of the city of Chicago, reporting on parts of the design process, as well as the final result: an enclave within the American city, and a blending of architectural and landscape design. The project was done under the banner of Complex Projects, at...

A Market Entry Strategy for Shell LNG fuel targeting the commercial road transport market in the UK

This thesis study aims to deliver a ‘market entry strategy’ for Shell to enter the UK road transport market with its new LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) product. The project includes the delivery of a B2B marketing strategy, a pricing strategy and a ‘route-to-market’ strategy.

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