Urban Design Interventions for Creative Nightscapes in Rotterdam

Nocturnal cultural spaces in Rotterdam are under pressure of gentrification. The decline in night club spaces, also results in a decline in cultural innovation and experimentation. In current redevelopment plans for creative clusters such as Schieblock, show the replacement of the creative industry by homogeneous residential neighbourhoods or...

Revitalizing the urban life: Design a three-dimensional public space system by combining top-down and bottom-up approaches through serious gaming in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, China

Sustainability and Circularity Challenges in Aerospace Engineering Education: for the sustainability transition

The aerospace industry and TU Delft have set stringent climate goals for themselves and with each passing year, these goals seem all the more implausible. While sustainability in the aerospace industry is envisioned as futuristic, circular, net-zero aircraft, the change rarely comes from the grassroots. Although these technological solutions are...

Conceptualizing and measuring the firm-level transition risk in the auto sector

Auto sector corporations are increasingly disclosing climate targets given the need to transition, which presents risks. However, institutional investors have yet to develop knowledge in climate science to assess the risk concretely. Instead, they rely on qualitative measurement such as the Environmental, Social, Governance factors for climate...

The decarbonisation of process heat in the German food and beverages industry: A study quantifying the techno-economic potential of High-Temperature Heat Pumps in the German food and beverages industry, the GHG emission abatement potential, and evaluating the economic and political framework conditions for industrial decarbonisation

Industrial decarbonisation has largely stagnated over the last years in Germany. A large share of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions stem from the combustion of natural gas for producing higher temperature process heat. High-Temperature Heat Pumps (HTHPs) are an emerging technology that can upgrade waste heat with electrical input to high...

The public interior: A Social condenser in Hong Kong

Since the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the opportunities for political conversation are diminishing, censorship has been gradually imposed on different means of mass media. In the face of the gradual loss of freedoms, the people of Hong Kong have demonstrated an atmosphere of solidarity through social movements and physical...

Urban Material Flow Analysis of Plastics: A Case Study for Leiden

Global plastic production increased from 200 million metric tons in 2002, to 359 million metric tons in 2019. It is estimated that plastics in the marine environment weigh more than 150 million metric tons and by 2050 could even outweigh the mass of fish in the ocean. Over half of the world population (55%) nowadays lives in urban areas and...

Cost-conscious designing of Dutch transportation infrastructure projects: A first explorative research into the ‘control’ based factors for reducing the front-end cost escalations

Cost overruns in infrastructure projects has been a well-known phenomenon for almost a decade. As per the generally accepted definition, the industry has been measuring cost overruns as the cost exceedance with respect to the approved contractor’s budget. But researchers are realizing the fact that the decision-to-build is generally taken long...

The first step of a roadmap for realizing bottom-up innovation within an operating business: An MVP tooling designed for the business group Pon Equipment and Pon Power Solutions (part of Pon Holding)

The world around us is changing faster than ever before. Companies need to keep up with the fast pace of the rapidly changing business landscape to stay competitive. To achieve this, they have to find ways to continuously innovate and search for new opportunities. The company Pon Holding believes that continuous innovation can be achieved by...

From risk assessment to adaptation pathways: an improvement of the Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis for the Limari basin in Chile

The Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) framework incorporates the uncertainties of climate change that impact project planning, socioeconomic justification, and engineering design into a step-wise and collaborative planning process to guide a technical analyst to low-regret risk- and cost-effective solutions; Research has been...

Maximizing Water--Food--Energy Nexus Synergies at Basin Scale

In this short paper, we show how solutions for mitigating resource security in one sector can be found in another. We demonstrate—by means of a case study in Burkina Faso and Ghana—how investing in the electricity grid in the south leads to increase food security in the north. A new nexus framework was developed (‘MAXUS’) which was built to...

Empowering idea owners to innovate: Implementing an innovation toolkit at KLM

The mission statement of KLM claims it wants to become the most ‘customer-centric, innovative and efficient European network carrier’, emphasizing the importance of innovation in the corporates’ long-term strategy. Becoming truly innovative requires KLM to unlock all its innovation potential of their employees to secure that all internal...