Sustainability Integration in Engineering Practice: A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment Study for the Case Study of a Wing Rib

Having seen exponential growth in demand for air travel, the aviation industry has found itself trying to find a balance between economic growth, technological development, and environmental sustainability. This saw a shift in attention towards materials such as fiber reinforced composites, predominantly thermoset in the past with higher...

Local Hero: Rethinking Urban Transformation towards a Local Micro-Economy

Efficiency optimisation of the prototyping process for injection moulding

This research provides a recommendation for Sonion, a company specialised in the development and production of hearing aids, on the production of moulds for the injection moulding machine. <br/><br/>The goal was to develop a process that reduces the cost and the time to manufacture an injection mould while maintaining a similar accuracy as in...

Climate customized façade: A prefabricated façade system customized for Ecuadorian climate regions

The Ecuadorian construction sector lacks thermal comfort standards, causing building’s design to disregard the existing variations between the climatic regions in the country. Indoor comfort levels are generally poor, encouraging the use of unsustainable cooling and heating systems. A building´s envelope plays an important role in the energy and...

Robotic assembly of interlocking CNC-cut sheets into a wall component: Redesign the CNC-cut elements of the wall component in order to reduce the robotic automatic assembly time

There is a large pressure on the construction industry in the Netherlands because there are not enough skilled employees and 1 million new homes need to be built before 2030. TheNewMakers (TNM) want to radically change how buildings are being constructed in order to speed up the building process. TNM is applying their LEGO inspired building...

Ori-act: Toolbox for urban re-activation

Ori-act is a toolbox using the principles of origami and cnc milling in order to provide inhabitants of depreciated neighborhoods in Rotterdam the means to build a physical platform to carry out their initiatives to reactivate their neighborhood.

Digital Fabrication of a Timber Bridge: Design, optimisation, fabrication and testing at global and connection level

Rapid developments of both new (digital) fabrication techniques and innovative software facilitate the possibility to design, check and construct objects with great complexity and uniqueness without a large price tag. After new techniques slowly entered the field of architecture, the next step is to apply them in civil engineering to design load...

Architecture for Emergent Craftsmanship: Digitally manufactured, mass customized and reconfigurable workshops for makers

This project relates to 4th industrial revolution and the digital era and nswers the needs of todays craftsmen. Recent times prove that production of goods becomes decentralized while factories and mass production is being replaced by mass customization and digital craftsmanship. Todays artists and designers often collaborate and create co...

CAST Formwork System: A redesign and evaluation of the CAST formwork system concept

In the graduation project of Remmerswaal, N. (2015), a concept for a new building system for the Indonesian kampung was developed: The CAST formwork system. The development of the concept was based on several identified problems of the Indonesian construction sector. The project concluded with a first design of the CAST formwork system, in this...

PO-Lab: InDetail

Tra-digital Hybrids: Using digital fabrication to create a hybrid design for developing countries

Can improved technology make a difference in under-served communities to improve the existing build environment in a cultural sustainable way and make possible endogenous solutions? The technical research paper highlights the technical research done to answer this particular question. The research, that focuses on technical solutions to serve...