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Al Ka'abi, Marwa (author)This research aims to investigate how we can facilitate the digital transition into the metaverse at the scale of Rotterdam, through architecture and technology by <br/>understanding the gaps in metaverse enabling technologies and the infrastructure<br/>required to power the metaverse and its creation process.master thesis 2023
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Smits, Quinten (author)Rapid and uncontrolled urban growth has resulted in fragmented cityscapes, leading to the loss of a sense of place in cities like London. The relentless march of modernization and compulsive development has given rise to illegible spaces, where once-distinctive landmarks are being replaced by generic high-rise buildings and shopping malls. This...master thesis 2023
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van Slingerland, Aloy (author)The rapidly growing infrastructure sector has a detrimental effect on climate change. The infrastructure sector is responsible for approximately 10% of worldwide emissions. <br/>In the past years, sustainability became more important in the procurement of infrastructure projects. One of the ways to implement sustainability in infrastructure...master thesis 2023
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van Leeuwen, Lucia (author)The world is facing environmental change, mainly due to human actions. To prevent serious environmental, economic, and societal impacts of climate change, all United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) member countries have committed to limit global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial level by 2050....master thesis 2023
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Meinderts, Jens (author)The Dutch highway network contains more than 3.000 kilometers of roads. Along these roads are thousands of overhead objects such as viaducts and traffic sign gantries. It is essential to have recent and accurate data on the clearances under these objects. This data is important for maintenance and routing oversized transports. Obtaining...master thesis 2023
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Gomez Chica, Tatiana (author)Programmes in the Dutch infrastructure sector can contribute to overcoming the industry’s lagging performance and the increasing amount of renovation of work it is currently facing. Additionally, they have the potential to integrate the fragmented supply chain while facilitating better coordination of the projects being executed more effectively...master thesis 2022
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Kanters, Mark (author)The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of implementing circularity in infrastructural construction projects. As a very polluting sector, circularity is becoming a more and more popular theme in the construction industry. Driven by both governmental regulations of reaching a full circular economy in 2050 and intrinsic motivation,...master thesis 2022
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Osmankulova, Janel (author)This project is grounded in notions of fragmentation, camouflaging, invisibility, idiosyncracies, and oddities in infrastructures. <br/><br/>Understanding infrastructures as one of a number and reproducible elsewhere in the territory gives way to understanding my project as an addition to the distributed, dispersed, and fragmented...master thesis 2022
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WONG, YIN WAH (author)As the world’s largest intertidal area, the Wadden Sea Region has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2009 .In addition to the scenic and ecological values, the Dutch Wadden Sea also serves as an infrastructure to safeguard the coastline of the mainland as a climate buffer, where it is good to live, work and recreate.<br/>The...master thesis 2022
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Charaf, Hend (author)Mashhad has been geopolitically an important city in the region and a trade and connection hub to Central and East Asian countries. It is also the second-largest Muslim pilgrimage city after Mecca. It is a global city for which religion shaped the identity and influenced the spatial configuration of the city.<br/><br/>Religion, politics and...master thesis 2022
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Prins, Nina (author)Purpose - This development project is focused on the combination of project scheduling and risk mitigation for large infrastructure projects. The aim of this project is to develop a model that can automatically restructure the network schedule to enable that delay is mitigated as much as possible while the effects on multiple project criteria...master thesis 2022
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Vintges, Mark (author)Urbanization is a worldwide trend that drives an immense increase in air traffic demand. The worldwide aviation network makes global business possible which generates economic growth, creates jobs and facilitates international tourism and trade. Many of the world's transport hubs like The Greater London Area have allocated this demand over...master thesis 2022
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Klein, Simon (author)A trend towards a more relational type of contracting can be noticed in the Dutch infrastructure industry. These so-called relational project delivery models are supposed to deal with the current challenges of regular cost and time overruns, the growing demand and the adverse relationship between contractor and client in traditional projects,...master thesis 2022
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Kim, Hyungsoon (author)The project can be defined at the intersection of urban landscape, architecture and infrastructure as a resolution of not only social flows but also the systems and elements of the material flows, which once shaped London. It aims to formulate new social urban programs where the distinction between the site, the architectural edifice or the...master thesis 2022
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Hereijgers, Sjef (author)This past century the demand for raw materials has risen sharply. This demand is expected to rise even further, which is not sustainable. Changing the linear model of consumption to a circular model can help to decrease levels of raw material demand. The application of serviceoriented business models, called ProductService System (PSS) can...master thesis 2021
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Harale, Kunal (author)The European construction sector is responsible for the consumption of almost 32% of total raw material for realizing its projects (Benachio, Freitas, & Tavares , 2020). On a national level, this amount results to almost 50% for the Dutch construction industry (Nellssen, et al., 2018). The ever-growing population stresses the need for...master thesis 2021
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Verdoes, Jesse (author)The Banality of Death addresses the way the city of Mashhad deals with death. It is an attempt to architecturally translate and expose the tensions that arise between traditional values and the modern transformation of the burial process by the design of three extended rest-stops along the Bagcheh Highway that act as mediators with the goal of...master thesis 2021
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Bruh, Katherina (author)The project uses architecture to speculate how we might make the invisible metropolis of the cotton industry hidden within the region on Xinjiang, China, visible alongside its negative production externalities and its practice sustainable. This project understands cotton in its current global state of production, consumption and price point can...master thesis 2021
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Meneses Di Gioia Ferreira, Lucas (author)The Xingu River Basin sits within the Amazon Biome and integrates its deforestation belt. It is home to a multitude of endemic species and indigenous nations which are now threatened by the disruption of the river’s water pulse caused by the construction and operation of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam. As we face our planet’s ecological...master thesis 2021