Urban Voices: Citizen Voice: An innovative Open-source Map-based tool for effective public participation

Cities around the world constitute complex systems, as sets of sub-components that are connected and interact with each other. Due to this inherent complexity, there are numerous emerging challenges that need to be tackled. In those complex environments, various-interest groups collaborate and compete to achieve their goals and interests,...

Marginal gains for major improvements: A user-centered cycling shoe to increase performance for elite short-course triathletes

The domain of triathlon seems promising for Cadomotus, a company specialising in helmets, bags, and shoes. Right now, they are known for high-end ice-skating equipment, but the triathlon market seems a great fit and they want to expand further there. A new triathlon specific product would solidify Cadomotus in the market as truly understanding...

Data-informed design experiments: Assessing the effectiveness and appropriateness of design for behaviour change

Our society is facing a number of great challenges which will require all of us to significantly change our lifestyle in the coming years. To support people in those transitions, next to systemic changes, new design interventions have to be crafted that intentionally aim to redirect behaviour for the common good. As changing behaviour...

Designing a Method to assess the Effectiveness of Direct Referral Processes for Elderly Patients with a Social Indication from the Emergency Department of a Hospital

To tackle increasing health care costs and increase quality of health care the prevention of unnecessary admission by direct referral for elderly with a social indication from the hospital to other care institutes is perceived successful by stakeholders. No method to assess the effectiveness was present in literature. A six-step assessment...

Understanding Construction Productivity: by defining critical factors affecting productivity from a site execution perspective in the process industry

In general most megaprojects are finished over the budget and later than initially expected. Despite all industries seem to struggle with achieving the desired performance, the lowest performance is found in projects executed in the oil and gas sector. Furthermore the productivity rates in construction industry are the lowest among other...

Support Policy Instruments for Offshore Wind Power in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the developing of offshore wind power (OWP) systems is one of options for electricity generation from renewable energy sources (RES-E) for the transition to a sustainable energy system. In 2015, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) announced that around 6500 MW of total offshore wind capacity required in the...

Low Exergy Renovation: Optimizing retrofitting of buildings through exergy analysis on single houses and up-scaled design solutions

Improvement on effectiveness provided by an exergy analysis used in a renovation design. An exergy analysis of the Prêt-à-Loger house (TU Delft, Green Village) is done with dynamic calculations using TRNSYS software. From this analysis an exergy optimized version of the renovation concept is provided, with insight on the potential effectiveness...

Including CO2 emissions from the maritime sector in an EU-wide emission trading system. An assessment of the effectiveness and feasibility of various design options for an emission trading system.

Research indicates that the maritime sector is accountable for approximately 3% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, annually, and a trend of vastly growing amounts of CO2 emissions is projected for the future. Despite this significant share in the global warming problem, CO2 emissions from the maritime sector are not significantly...