Una reunión educativa con el bambu (An educational meeting with Bamboo)

The thesis is a research driven design study of a multiple floor/"high-rise" building with a structure of Laminated Guadua bamboo in Guayaquil Ecuador. Dealing with earthquakes, context, structure and sustainability issues. The Thesis is strongly oriented to structure, the industry and the state of the industry itself but always driven by...

Performing life cycle assessment and life cycle costing on a DFF 3007

The shipping industry emits large quantaties of CO2, NOx and SOx. The regulations regarding these harmful emissions become stricter. For ship owners there are different solutions to reduce emissions. Among others they can switch to cleaner fuels or install exhaust gas treatment systems. This report provides an insight in the calculation of the...

Life cycle assessment of pollutants from ships: The case of an Aframax tanker

A Visual Life Cycle Analysis - for architects and policymakers

The impact of urbanizing 400 million people in China in 20 years - a comparative analysis of common structural materials with bamboo as a promising alternative for (semi) high-rise developments. Transport, End of Life scenarios and Lifespan are essential factors in a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). The Building Energy Use itself is becoming less...

Efficiency and Feasibility of the Disassembly Process for Curtain Wall Systems

This research focuses on “Disassembly” as the environmentally preferred approach to curtain wall systems’ EoL. The process of disassembly can maximize material recovery and facilitate reuse of components. The resulting environmental benefits vary from limiting the need for virgin materials and saving manufacturing energy to reducing the final...

Design of Sustainable Bridges

In the upcoming years a few hunderds of pedestrian bridges in Rotterdam have to be replaced. At Agentschap NL and at Ingenieursbureau Gemeente-werken Rotterdam (IGWR) there is the desire to take sustainability into account when replacing pedestrian’s bridges. There was however not much information available yet about the criteria that make a...

Reuse of hollow core slabs from office buildings to residential buildings

The subject of this thesis is the reuse of hollow core slabs from office building to residential buildings. It was written as final part of the master Civil Engineering of the TU Delft. The occasion for this particular topic is the short functional lifetime of buildings compared to the technical lifetime of their concrete load bearing structure....

Compost, biogas and biochar in Northern Ghana: Climate impact and economic feasibility in the context of voluntary carbon markets

The Master’s programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. In some areas of Sub-Saharan Africa appropriate organic waste management technology could address development issues such as soil degradation, unemployment and energy scarcity, while at the same time providing climate benefits....

Vepa: An Exploration towards sustainability and the development of an eco-efficient office storage unit

Through the use of eco-label guidelines, eco-design guidelines, and LCA-based environmental impact and sustainability indicators like Eco-costs, the Eco-cost to Value Ratio (EVR) and ReCiPe points, a boundary and baseline for new product development can be set to which an improvement can be measured. In addition to this the LCA based indicators...

Materializing with Cradle to Cradle

For a truly sustainable society the Cradle to Cradle guidelines are a useful guide. Different technical and bio materials are integrated in design options. System designs are compared with a Life Cycle Assessment. To test innovative constructions some prototypes have been made and are tested for strength and deformation. Outcome is an extruded...