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Mlecnik, E. (author), Qian, QK (author), Straub, A. (author), Ersoy, A. (author), Remøy, H.T. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author), Hobma, Fred (author), Rooij, R.M. (author), Vande Putte, H.J.M. (author), van Bortel, G.A. (author), Roeling, M.M. (author)It is recommended to integrate specific management competencies in academic education to support the transition towards environmentally sustainable practices, particularly in the construction and real estate sector. This paper explores how architectural management education can integrate environmental sustainability within its current university...book chapter 2024
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Stocker, Volker (author), Lehr, William (author), Smaragdakis, G. (author)The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the ‘real’ world and substantially impacted the virtual world and thus the Internet ecosystem. It has caused a significant exogenous shock that offers a wealth of natural experiments and produced new data about broadband, clouds, and the Internet in times of crisis. In this chapter, we characterise and...book chapter 2023
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Timmer, W.A. (author), Bak, Christian (author)This chapter focuses on airfoils for wind turbine blades and their characteristics. The use of panel codes such as XFOIL and RFOIL and CFD codes for the prediction of airfoil characteristics is briefly described. This chapter then discusses the requirements for wind turbine blade airfoils and the effect of leading edge roughness and Reynolds...book chapter 2023
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- Veddeler, C.B. (author), Kuijper, J.A. (author), Gath-Morad, Michal (author), van der Wal, I.A. (author) book chapter 2023
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Schulze Balhorn, L. (author), Hirtreiter, E.J. (author), Luderer, Lynn (author), Schweidtmann, A.M. (author)Artificial intelligence has great potential for accelerating the design and engineering of chemical processes. Recently, we have shown that transformer-based language models can learn to auto-complete chemical process flowsheets using the SFILES 2.0 string notation. Also, we showed that language translation models can be used to translate...book chapter 2023
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Leliveld, André (author), Bhaduri, Saradindu (author), Knorringa, Peter (author), van Beers, Cees (author)This chapter sets the scene for the Handbook on Frugal Innovation. First, it describes the origins of the concept of frugal innovation and its emergence as an academic field of interest. Then, main drivers behind frugal innovation are explored. From the scholarly discussion on frugal innovation major themes are distilled that inform the...book chapter 2023
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Li, Jie (author), Cesar, Pablo (author)Virtual reality (VR) is the experience in a simulated interactive virtual space. It provides synthetic sensory feedback to users' actions that can physically and mentally immerse the users. Social VR is one type of VR system that allows multiple users to join a collaborative virtual environment and communicate with each other, usually by...book chapter 2023
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Taylor, Zac (author)Re/insurance plays a multifaceted and increasingly powerful role in the expansion of financialised forms of climate risk governance. While re/insurance markets are global(-ising), they are also geographically uneven, contingent, and provisional. This chapter reflects on this tension by examining how catastrophe capital markets evolve through...book chapter 2022
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Dewilde, Caroline (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author)The nature of housing as a service (fulfilling basic needs) and a capital-intensive commodity (houses and the ‘underlying’ land have exchange value) hampers comparative understandings of ‘housing policy’, and its relation to social policy research. On the one hand, housing is a pillar of social policy, addressing social problems in the urban...book chapter 2022
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Sušnik, Janez (author), Masia, Sara (author), Jewitt, G.P.W. (author)Water, energy, and food (WEF) systems form a complex interconnected network, operational at scales from the household up to the global. These scales, like the nexus sectors themselves, and mutually interconnected, with lower-level characteristics help drive higher-level resource management, and vice versa. This chapter highlights recent WEF...book chapter 2022
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Yarce Botero, A. (author), Quintero Montoya, O.L. (author), Lopez Restrepo, S. (author), Pinel Pelaez, N. (author), Hinestroza Ramirez, J.E. (author), Nino-Ruiz, Elias David (author), Anderson Flórez, Jimmy (author), Rendón, Angela María (author), Alvarez-Laínez, Monica Lucia (author), Heemink, A.W. (author)This chapter book presents Medellín Air qUality Initiative or MAUI Project; it tells a brief story of this teamwork, their scientific and technological directions. The modeling work focuses on the ecosystems and human health impact due to the exposition of several pollutants transported from long-range places and deposited. For this objective,...book chapter 2021
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Giunti, Guido (author), Claes, Maëlick (author), Zubiete, Enrique Dorronzoro (author), Rivera-Romero, Octavio (author), Gabarron, Elia (author)Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the world's most common neurologic disorders. Social media have been proposed as a way to maintain and even increase social interaction for people with MS. The objective of this work is to identify and compare the topics on Twitter during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Data was...book chapter 2021
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van Nes, A. (author), Yamu, Claudia (author)In this chapter, we discuss the application of space syntax in consultancy for urban planning design and practice. First, we present the scientific challenges to tying general understandings and theories to urban planning and design practice. Some elementary principles for communicating results from research and theories to practitioners are...book chapter 2021
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Wagner, Ben (author), Kuklis, Lubos (author)This chapter provides an overview of the main problems associated with basing public regulatory decisions on unverified data, before sketching out some ideas of what a solution might look like. In order to do this, the chapter develops the concept of auditing intermediaries. After discussing which problems the concept of auditing intermediaries...book chapter 2021
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Bobbink, I. (author), Gramsbergen, E.H. (author)De inrichting van het Nederlandse landschap moet wederom op de schop. Dit keer niet om de delta door ontginning bewoonbaar te maken of door ruilverkaveling efficënter in te richten voor de landbouw, maar om het land in deze tijd van klimaatverandering en bevolkingsgroei bestendiger en leefbaarder te maken voor mens, flora en fauna. Door...book chapter 2021
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Poplavskaya, K. (author), De Vries, Laurens (author)At the forefront of energy transition, aggregators unlock value in front of and behind the energy meter. The business models of aggregators are changing rapidly, influenced by changes in technology, the market design, and regulatory framework. This chapter provides an overview of the leading aggregators in Europe and their underlying business...book chapter 2020
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Lantsoght, E.O.L. (author), Bonifaz, J. (author), Sanchez, T.A. (author), Harris, D.K. (author)This chapter deals with the methodology for diagnostic load testing. All aspects of diagnostic load testing that are shared with other load testing methods have been discussed in Part II. In this chapter, the particularities of diagnostic load testing of new and existing bridges are discussed. These elements include loading procedures,...book chapter 2019
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Lancel, K.A. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author), Maat, Hermen (author)Can shared experience and dialogue on social touch be orchestrated in playful smart public spaces? In smart city public spaces, in which physical and virtual realities are currently merging, new forms of social connections, interfaces and experiences are be- ing explored. Within art practice, such new connections include new forms of affective...book chapter 2019
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Offerman, S.E. (author)A growing world population and rising levels of prosperity are driving up the global demand for energy and materials and are increasing the negative impact on the environment. Challenges related to energy use, materials consumption, and climate change are closely intertwined. On the one hand, producing materials consumes about 21% of global...book chapter 2019
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Konstantinou, T. (author), Dimitrijević, Branka (author)The reconsideration of the existing building stock is motivated by society’s efforts towards sustainability and resilience. The building sector has a considerable role to play in doing so. The process of refurbishment is complex, since aspects such as design decisions, existing construction, energy efficiency, and user behaviour need to be...book chapter 2018
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