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Winiarczyk, Kevin (author)
Nowadays, air ducts components for ventilation used in offices, hospitals and schools are made from non-renewable materials mainly sheet metal and plastics. Continuing to feed the high demand of metals is a challenge and could result of depletion of natural resources. This raises the importance to look into renewable resources with a lower...
master thesis 2023
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Westerink, Bryan (author)
This research aimed to determine whether offsite construction leads to a lower environmental impact than onsite construction. Further, it is researched how the environmental impact of offsite construction can be reduced. This is of great importance as the construction industry has a significant environmental impact. Specifically, offsite...
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Grul, Wesley (author)
The Netherlands has faced rapidly increasing housing prices over the previous years. As a counter measure, the government is aiming to increase the construction of new houses from around 70 thousand annually to 100 thousand annually, to achieve 900 thousand new houses by 2030. At the same time the world is facing a climate crisis and the...
master thesis 2022
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Ruig, Nina (author)
The implications of a CE and the transition towards it are widely researched. However, there is a lack of research into the relevant geographical scales of CE. Thus, this research aims to present a framework that identifies the optimal geographical scale for the recycling of materials based on various factors. The framework is tested against a...
master thesis 2022
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Degens, Roel (author)
Energy storage systems can play a vital role in the implementation of a sustainable energy grid by allowing the wide scale implementation of fluctuating renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Therefore it is expected that in the coming years, the total amount of energy storage systems will drastically increase. Analysing the...
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Mangana, Danai (author)
Building construction is a material-intensive process known for depleting natural resources, mainly gravel and sand, used in concrete production. At the same time, building demolition generates large amounts of construction and demolition waste (CDW), primarily consisting of end-of-life (EOL) concrete, a significant waste flow occurring in...
master thesis 2022
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Griffioen, Noah (author)
The CONE-LCA framework is a promising framework that can be used to assess the impact of food items on human health and the environment. However, the nutrition-health assessment in the CONE-LCA framework quantifies the health impacts of food at the level of food items with the use of an indicator that is based on only few nutrients and otherwise...
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Roos zich noemende en schrijvende Lindgreen, Lucas (author)
In current LCA studies, the environmental footprint of transport processes is calculated using the weight of the product and the distance travelled. This cannot be considered accurate for returnable packagings that reduce in volume when empty. The weight of the freight as well as the number of trips needed varies and is not taken into account in...
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de Jonge, Rinke (author)
The global population is growing rapidly, so the construction sector must keep up by increasing the number of houses and improving the infrastructure. The construction sector is importance to support economic growth and social development within society. However, the conflict that arises here is that the activities of the construction sector are...
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van Helmond, Emily (author)
To mitigate climate change and to reach Dutch targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with 49% by 2030, emissions by the construction industry must be lowered. Developments regarding mass timber construction have increased the potential to do so. This thesis addresses the problem that the opportunity of reducing CO2 emissions by constructing...
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van den Boom, Gaudi (author)
This thesis studies the criticality of gallium, indium and silicon for a 1GWp production of III-V/silicon solar cells and assesses the environmental impacts and economic costs \& benefits of a recycling process for these solar cells. III-V/silicon is an emerging solar cell technology, that is expected to enter the market in between 2025 and...
master thesis 2021
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Makhlouf, Seba (author)
Thanks to the continuous development in its technology, solar photovoltaics is already on its way to substitute conventional energy resources as a sustainable source of energy. However, concerns regarding the environmental burden associated with the life cycle stages of the PV systems are increasing with the fast growth of the technology. This...
master thesis 2021
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Thunnissen, Emma (author)
Due to current consumption patterns, the world is subject to an environmental crisis. A Circular Economy (CE), “restorative by nature” (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2013, p. 14), could mitigate this crisis; however, implementing circularity principles into the lifecycle is not straightforward for many products, including composites. A snowboard...
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Bhatia, Satvik (author)
The growing need for sustainability and circularity in the construction industry has given rise to the demand for proper sustainability valorisation and evaluation methods. Investors and project owners need sound rationale for their returns on investment made into sustainability – in financial, environmental and social benefits achieved....
master thesis 2021
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Steunenberg, Kirsten (author)
In order to live more sustainably on this planet, the world’s population needs to transform the current take-make dispose society towards a society with more maintainable consumption patterns and more sustainable business models. A way to achieve this, is a circular economy in which value is maintained within the product cycle, by sharing,...
master thesis 2021
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Teunissen, Floris (author)
After the Dutch government committed itself to the Paris Climate Agreement, there has been some development in policies that are introduced to limit the emissions of greenhouse gasses. These policies are introduced in the Dutch Climate Agreement. Some of these policies aim to stimulate the adoption rate of the battery electric vehicle into the...
master thesis 2020
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van Kootwijk, Wouter (author)
As of 2016, governments globally adopted the task to achieve social, economic and environmental sustainability by committing to the targets from the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs incorporate a set of 17 goals and 169 targets accompanied with more than 200 indicators that can guide towards achieving sustainable development by...
master thesis 2020
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Viswanathan, Sharabheshwaran (author)
This thesis deals with the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the manufacture of an EXASUN X-Glass photovoltaic (PV) module to understand its true environmental impact. The methodology and general guidelines for conducting an LCA on a Photovoltaic (PV) system are developed, within the scope of this thesis. The LCA follows a standard framework,...
master thesis 2020
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Patel, Ruchik (author)
In the past few decades, we have witnessed unprecedented impacts of climate change. The increase in Green house gas emissions due to human activities has disastrous implications for earth including an increase in global mean temperatures, rise in sea level and melting of polar ice caps. Climate change has<br/>impacted all forms of human life on...
master thesis 2020
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Leemeijer, Kees (author)
The building sector is responsible for 40% of worldwide carbon emissions, of which 8% can be attributed to concrete construction. With an increased demand for housing, this percentage is bound to increase. This thesis sheds light on strategies for reducing the environmental impact of concrete construction by investigating the potential of...
master thesis 2020
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