Demolition in Europe: Volume, motives and research approach

What determines the life span of dwellings? Much is known about the initial phase of buildings. The vast majority of scientific knowledge is concentrated on the building initiative, the programming, design and in particular the construction. Knowledge about the utilization phase, including management, transformation and redesign is growing. But...

Environmental citizenship and participation. The role of education programs

Promoting effective environmental citizenship is one way to achieve sustainability - people should be encouraged to act to preserve the environment and the common good. The citizen’s qualities and attitudes will determine the evolution of our society at all levels. Individuals must develop a cultural capacity that in modern society turn them...

Drinking water treatment technologies in Europe: State of the art - vulnerabilities - research needs

Eureau is the European Federation of National Associations of Water and Wastewater Services. At the request of Eureau Commission 1, dealing with drinking water, a survey was made focusing on raw drinking water sources and drinking water treatment technologies applied in Europe. Raw water sources concerned groundwater, surface water, surface...

Systems of performance based requirements for housing in Europe

Measuring the evolution of online handling of building permits in Europe

Electronic customer related services of governments have expanded enormously. In many regulatory domains the use of ICT services has become common property. This applies also to the field of building regulations. Main theme of this paper is the possibility to apply online for a building permit. The developments in 18 European countries are being...

European Forest Management Tracking Sustainability: Current Lacks

During this decade forest companies have been diversifying their operations and product ranges from traditional forestry, timber and pulp and paper both to energy and biofuels and to RFID technologies, labels, wood and plastic composites, and biochemicals. Basic products and high tech products are developed side by side. Each company desires new...

The growing importance of an accurate system of building control

Systems of building control have a long history. Technical regulations and control seems to be the subject of an ongoing debate between, on the one hand, those in favour of deregulation and reducing the administrative burden and, on the other hand, new quality demands that require government intervention. Currently in the Netherlands, both sides...

Household perspectives on risk and homeownership across the EU (draft version)

Workshop 3. Session A. Abstract. Home ownership sectors in most European countries have experienced a strong growth in recent decades and by the mid-1990s the majority of EU households were home owners. Whilst a great deal of attention has been paid to the rise in home ownership per se, the extent to which households in different European...

Potentials for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by inducing modal shift in European long-distance passenger travel

Long-distance person transport contributes significantly to the GHG-emissions of all person transport. The EU aims for reducing the emissions by inducing a significant modal shift to the train, raising its market share to at least 50% on medium distances in 2050. This implies that the current share has to be multiplied by four. The paper...

Geoportals in selected European states: a non-technical comparative analysis

An Improved Greedy Algorithm for Subset Selection in Linear Estimation

In this paper, we consider a subset selection problem in a spatial field where we seek to find a set of k locations whose observations provide the best estimate of the field value at a finite set of prediction locations. The measurements can be taken at any location in the continuous field, and the covariance between the field values at...

Spectrum Sensing Using Energy Detectors with Performance Computation Capabilities

We focus on the performance of the energy detector for cognitive radio applications. Our aim is to incorporate, into the energy detector, low-complexity algorithms that compute the performance of the detector itself. The main parameters of interest are the probability of detection and the required number of samples. Since the exact performance...

Implementation of Dynamic Charging and V2G using Chademo and CCS/Combo DC charging standard

Dynamic charging of electric vehicles (EV) refers to charging the EV using variable charging power. This is important for applications where the EV is charged from intermittent renewable energy sources like wind or solar. Dynamic charging can be implemented using three standards - AC charging, DC charging via Chademo and CCS/COMBO. This paper...

Real Time Selective Detection of Experimentally Generated DC Series Arcs

Localization of series arc faults in dc microgrids is an important requirement to guarantee operational safety and uninterrupted power to end users. In the previous EPE-ECCE proceeding, a theoretical proof was provided for the selective series arc detection using a novel algorithm. In the current paper, the concept is validated by showcasing...

Online identification of continuous bimodal and trimodal piecewise affine systems

This paper investigates the identification of continuous piecewise affine systems in state space form with jointly unknown partition and subsystem matrices. The partition of the system is generated by the so-called centers. By representing continuous piecewise affine systems in the max-form and using a recursive Gauss-Newton algorithm for a...

Higher order exponential splittings for the fast Non-linear Fourier Transform of the Korteweg-De Vries equation

Non-linear Fourier Transforms (NFTs) enable the analysis of signals governed by certain non-linear evolution equations in a way that is analogous to how the conventional Fourier transform is used to analyse linear wave equations. Recently, fast numerical algorithms have been derived for the numerical computation of certain NFTs. In this paper,...

Subscript-Based Geospatial Migration Dynamics

Between 2013 and 2015, over one million migrants entered Europe. Many European countries were unprepared for and overwhelmed by the rapidly unfolding, chaotic situation. To better handle future migration waves, and allow quicker exploration of government policy effects and interactions, a geospatial-based system dynamics model of migration flows...