Sustainable value chains for bamboo working communities: Integrating the tenets of sustainability through the Rhizome approach

There is a growing demand globally for products which impact sustainability positively. Bamboo fulfills these criteria, since it is a highly renewable timber replacement material which does not cause deforestation. It simultaneously has the potential to create livelihood opportunities for both the urban and rural poor. The eco-friendly potential...

Sustainable value chains for bamboo working communities: Integrating the tenets of sustainability through the Rhizome Approach

There is a growing demand globally for products which impact sustainability positively. Bamboo fulfills these criteria, since it is a highly renewable timber replacement material which does not cause deforestation. It simultaneously has the potential to create livelihood opportunities for both the urban and rural poor. The eco-friendly potential...

When to apply different design for sustainable behaviour strategies

Increased focus in research on the environmental consequences of behaviour and product usage the last decade has resulted in a number of different design strategies. The strategies are meant to stimulate desired behavioural patterns or to avoid undesired ones. Although this provides understanding of how behaviour may be changed, there has been...

Practices of a "green" front end of innovation; A gateway to environmental innovation

Activities in the fuzzy front end of the innovation process (FFE) are the root of success for any company hoping to compete on the basis of innovations. Considering the importance of the FFE, it would seem logical to bring the environmental considerations already to the activities of the early stages of the innovation process in order to...

A Factor of Safety for Geotechnical Characterization

Development of a System Level Tool for Conceptual Design of Small Satellites

The process of developing a tool aiming for conceptual design of nano- and microsatellites is described. The various challenges and derived solutions are discussed. The final product offers systems engineers a fast way to analyze the feasibility of a particular design concept. The tool differs from existing tools in that it is specifically...

Emergency Towing Vessel, concepts for a new century of emergency towing

A knowledge based engineering approach to support automatic design of wind turbine blades

Constructing metropolitan landscapes of actuality and potentiality

The Flat City space syntax model (Read, 2005), has been developed to extend the functionality of the space syntax method into the ‘periphery’ (the metropolitan) of the contemporary metropolitan city, and to provide a method for describing and evaluating the form of contemporary urban landscapes. The Flat City model proposes that the environment...

Mapping urban and social space: Towards a socio-cultural understanding of the built environment

Workshop 2. Session 2.1: Planning and everyday life

Damage Survivability of a New Ro-Ro Ferry

Human error probability assessment for functional control groups in the process industry

Scientific Sail Shape design

Hydro-numeric design of winglet keels for Stars & Stripes