3D spatial infrastructure for the Port of Rotterdam

This report presents the investigations, developments and the result of the project 3D spatial data infrastructure, funded by Next Generation Infrastructures, Maasvlakte 2.

Reciclagem do Grande Hotel Beira Mozambique: An open building intervention for socio-economic empowerment in Mozambique

Poor economies find themselves in an almost no-win situation: They would benefit from improving the economic situations of the very poor by making them self-supporting and economically productive. However, the very poor are occupied by daily survival and thus cannot afford themselves to improve. This paper describes the status quo of a...

Shrinking Cities and Path Dependency

When cities started shrinking, governments felt they had to do something. Where the main reason for shrinking was the closing down of traditional industry, economic policies were the first to be introduced: first by subsidising and reorganising existing companies, later by trying to create a more diverse employment structure. Gradually it was...

3D Spatial Information Infrastructure for the Port of Rotterdam

The maintenance of the complex infrastructure and facilities of Port of Rotterdam is based on large amounts of heterogeneous information. Almost all activities of the Port require spatial information about features above- and under- ground. Current information systems are department and data oriented and cannot reflect the new process- & project...

A Place to be Proud of: Heritage and Social inclusion in Shrinking Cities (Germany and United Kingdom)

Many old industrial areas of Europe and beyond have seen population numbers fall. When the numbers of households also starts to drop, demand for housing decreases. This may result in high numbers of empty dwellings, especially when either the houses themselves or the areas in which they stand are unattractive. In countries like Germany and the...

Learning to build on history: The regeneration of low income housing estates in England and Germany

When dwellings become obsolete or even vacant, the usual response by landlords or politicians would be: tear them down. However by doing so, part of the local history, which is also the history of the people still living there, will be destroyed. In Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, people in the Ruhr area, which was facing the closure of coal...

Design after decline: How America rebuilds shrinking cities. Brent D. Ryan

3D Spatial Data Infrastructure

Evaluation of micro-structural damage caused by needle penetration testing

The needle penetrometer (NP) is a nondestructive, cheap and simple device which can be used indirectly to obtain the uniaxial compressive strength of extremely weak rocks. It requires little sample preparation and can be used in the field and laboratory and applied in natural and man-made structures where sampling is not allowed. The...

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Heritage and its role in revitalising the housing market

Due to the demise of traditional industry large industrial estates, often at central locations, become available for reuse. Municipalities have reacted by trying to attract new users who would need a lot of space, like big shopping centres, while strengthening the urban economy. However, these attempts have not always been successful. Also,...

Anaerobic Oxidation of Ammonium Is a Biologically Mediated Process

Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation Discovered in a Denitrifying Fluidized-Bed Reactor

Anaerobic oxidation of ammonium is a biologically mediated process

Design of a ceramic zeolite membrane

Anoxic ammonium oxidation

Financieringsmogelijkheden voor nieuwe vormen van woningbeheer: Een onderzoek naar de financiering van woonprojecten met andere eigendoms- en beheersverhoudingen