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Karadedou Isoua, Nefeli (author)In response to the European Commission's 2020 Renovation Wave strategy aiming to double the annual rate of energy renovation for buildings by 2030, this thesis addresses the challenge of optimizing retrofitting planning using planning optimization algorithms. Despite the economic and practical hurdles identified in existing research, limited...master thesis 2024
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Mountaki, Dimitra (author)The growing threat of climate change highlights the necessity for long-term solutions in the construction industry. Buildings account for a large share of worldwide energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, so there is an urgent need for creative techniques to improve energy efficiency and reduce their ecological footprint. This thesis...master thesis 2024
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Kat, Lotte (author)The interior layout of apartments is made in the early design stage of an architectural project when the decisions can significantly impact the building's performance. During the early design phase, the ability to impact an architectural project is the most important, and this phase serves as the foundation of subsequent design phases. Proper...master thesis 2023
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Müller, Lisa-Marie (author)Across the world, countries are facing housing shortages and the Netherlands is no different. The increasing demand for new housing exceeds the growth rate of the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Current solutions remain small in scale and therefore unsustainable. Multi-family housing is the optimal typology to address the...master thesis 2023
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Kantawala, Naeem (author)The Netherlands aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 49% before 2030, with the built environment contributing 15% of these emissions largely due to the heavy reliance on natural gas to meet space heating demands. To phase out natural gas, alternatives such as heat pumps and district heat networks are being considered. However, adapting...master thesis 2023
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Stripp, Sebastian (author)Current building operations can be improved through smart predictive operation based on weather and use patterns in order to save energy with minimal impact on the building fabric and daily use. The existing literature has investigated implementations, and potential savings through combining with variable tariffs, however, this thesis addresses...master thesis 2023
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van Eijk, Jordy (author)Acoustics combined with digital fabrication has been investigated for multiple years. Most research in this area has focused on the combination of acoustics and additive manufacturing. This is mainly due to the ability of this technique to create any geometry, which allows for very high absorption. However, it has the downside that additive...master thesis 2023
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Pavlidou, Stella (author)In an urban context that needs to be constantly adapted to global crises, population movements, climate change and economic crises, designers and engineers strive to configure solutions that respond to multiple criteria. Within this framework, the concept of generative design is gaining more and more ground in the construction field, allowing...master thesis 2022
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Aboueimehrizi, Maryamsadat (author)Early design choices in building shape and fenestration significantly influ- ence the yearly daylight performance of office buildings. Annual daylight performance must be analyzed at the conceptual design stage to support building form and fenestration design decisions. However, the simulation modeling and daylight calculations necessary for the...master thesis 2022
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Zanotto, Irene (author)The impacts that the construction industry has on the environment has become an element of concern worldwide. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) claims that building activity has the potential to dramatically alter land’s surface (Sikra, 2017). This is mostly because many construction projects include destroying vegetation and digging,...master thesis 2022
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Alberts Coelho, Alexsander (author)The building stock and the construction industry combined are responsible for a large share of greenhouse gases emissions. At the same time, every year tons of wood, paper and agricultural residues are wasted instead of recycled and upcycled into the production chain. In the fabrication field, the relevance of additive manufacturing processes is...master thesis 2022
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Baruah, Namrata (author)In building design, the structural design is usually incorporated in the latter stages of the design, and the computational tools currently available focus more on converging and optimizing a single solution rather than providing an opportunity for the designer to explore design ideas. Incorporating structural design in the initial design phases...master thesis 2022
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Anil, Eren gozde (author)As the global population rise, climate conditions get more and more unpredictable, natural resources deplete; cities need to take action in order to sustain healthy living conditions as well as to ensure food safety. Currently, cities are solely dependent on external sources and suburban areas for natural resources and food as well as waste...master thesis 2022
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moutou, danai (author)This study intended to combine façade energy renovation strategies with circular design to improve energy performance and overall sustainability and circularity of the existing building stock. BIM technology can facilitate energy renovation projects by following circular design principles. A BIM library can offer most of the benefits of...master thesis 2022
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Nikumbh, Parikshit (author)Environmental noise has become a large health concern in Europe with at least one in five people exposed to levels considered harmful to health. Additionally, prolonged exposure to excessive levels of noise has a negative economic impact.<br/>The rapid development of urban areas makes the effect of noise pollution even worse. However, architects...master thesis 2022
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Pluimers, Thijmen (author)The Dutch government has set the goal to disconnect all houses from the natural gas network that runs through our country. This to decrease emissions and meet the goals set in the Paris Agreement in an effort to halt the global mean temperature increase. To provide heat to the houses they will need to be heated with electric energy. This heating...master thesis 2021
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Holla, Abhishek (author)In the Dutch government attempting to become fully circular 2050, VMRG, a Dutch Metal Façade Association, has initiated several pilot projects. Two of the most prominent ones are Cirlinq, an asset management platform for documenting building facades, and FaSA (Façade Service Applicate), a collective of stakeholders aiming to use drones and image...master thesis 2021
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Mousavi, Kiana (author)Designing energy-efficient facades can have a significant impact on reducing the building's energy consumption while providing comfort for the occupants. While highly-insulated buildings have good thermal insulation and high airtightness, they deal with the risk of overheating issues. Dynamic insulation, a technology consisting of porous...master thesis 2020
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Rouwenhorst, Tessa (author)The MOR prototype is a smart passive building with a central building management system to control and optimise the operation of the active and passive building systems and therefore reduce the energy consumption of the building and improve the users comfort conditions (MOR Team, 2019b). During the competition, the systems in the prototype were...master thesis 2020
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Fortich Mora, Fredy (author)As urbanization increases around the world, high-rise buildings will continue to become a more prevailing typology, nonetheless, due in part to cumbersome computational simulations, rarely do designers have enough information during the early stages of design, which is the time when their choices affect the most the efficiency of their building....master thesis 2020