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Backx, Stephan (author)The Netherlands is currently in the process of transitioning from a linear economy to a circular economy, in accordance with the ”Nederland Circulair 2050” policy. To increase the circularity of buildings, several approaches can be integrated. In this research, the so-called Design for Deconstruction and Donor Structural Framework concepts are...master thesis 2020
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Alfaro Monge, Luis Carlos (author)Siltation affects navigation in harbors and waterways by reducing the water depth. To regain depth and safeguard navigation, dredging is required. Water Injection Dredging (WID) is one of the available hydrodynamic dredging techniques, in which pumps on a vessel inject water at high flow velocities and low pressure into the bed and fluidize the...master thesis 2020
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Li, Wei (author), Li, Zong Kun (author), Ge, W. (author), Zhang, Hexiang (author)The environmental impact of dam breach has the features of complexity and uncertainty. There is a lack of systematic and comprehensive research on the environmental impact of dam breach in China. Considering such fuzziness of environment evaluation and the lack of precise data, this work chooses the method of multi-index comprehensive...journal article 2020
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von Greve-Dierfeld, Stefanie (author), Lothenbach, Barbara (author), Vollpracht, Anya (author), Wu, B. (author), Huet, Bruno (author), Andrade, Carmen (author), Medina, César (author), Thiel, Charlotte (author), Gruyaert, Elke (author), Vanoutrive, Hanne (author)Blended cements, where Portland cement clinker is partially replaced by supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), provide the most feasible route for reducing carbon dioxide emissions associated with concrete production. However, lowering the clinker content can lead to an increasing risk of neutralisation of the concrete pore solution and...journal article 2020
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He, Jun (author), Li, Xiang (author), Li, Chuanxi (author), Correia, José A.F.O. (author), Xin, H. (author), Zhou, Man (author)Owing to the superior mechanical performance and material efficiency, the combination of prestressed concrete (PC) slabs and corrugated steel webs (CSW) as PC girder with CSWs (PCGCSW) is extensively applied to railway and highway bridges. To overcome the shortcomings of traditional balanced cantilever construction (TBCC) of PCGCSW, reduce...journal article 2020
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Bleuel, Dominique (author)This thesis ‘A decision support model for analysing the reuse potential of hollow-core slab floor components’ describes the development of a decision support model to investigate the reuse potential of a structural building component. For this research, the hollow-core slab floor component is chosen as the structural building component to be...master thesis 2019
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Beukers, Eveline (author)In the last decade, an increasing amount of people has become aware of the negative impact their behaviour has on the environment. However, most consumers are not aware of the negative environmental impact of the products they purchase and possess. Research has been done on different aspects of products for a circular economy, such as product...master thesis 2019
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de Wit, Charlotte (author)On-the-go food packaging has a significant negative impact on the environment. The awareness of this long existing problem is rising among consumers and policy makers. Although over decades many professionals in various areas of expertise have worked on improvements and tried to find solutions, these solutions all involve trade-offs. An ideal...master thesis 2019
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Nijman, Rens (author)The life cycle of a building has a tremendous impact on the environment. This is due to its energy demand, production and transportation of building materials, and its maintenance. Actually, the building industry is one of the most polluting industries that contribute to climate change. In the Netherlands alone, this sector is chargeable for 50%...master thesis 2019
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Booms, Elise (author)This research investigated in which ways the material environmental impact of the main load-bearing structure of a high-rise building can be reduced. To determine this material environmental impact, the shadow price for each material and product has been determined by using ten environmental impact categories. One of these categories is global...master thesis 2019
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Gupta, Ankur (author)In Europe, 1/3rd of all the products reaching recycling facilities can be sold as secondary materials, and this can be a high-quality replacement for low-quality new products. Circular Material Use rate shows how much material demand was catered by reused or recycled content. The Netherlands was estimated at 29% in 2016 is the highest among all...master thesis 2019
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van Maastrigt, Joris (author)The re-use of building components and structural elements is an underdeveloped practice which could be an important strategy in the global paradigm shift towards a circular economy. Steel is one of the most important structural building materials which combines incredible strength, favourable mechanical properties and excellent durability...master thesis 2019
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Gonçalo Melo, Leonardo (author)In this thesis two different approaches for the construction of environmental extensions compatible with the MRIO database EUREGIO are compared alongside with the latest liter- ature on consumption-based accounts. To date, few studies have focused on the provision of sub-national accounts at the NUTS2 level of detail and never production-based...master thesis 2019
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van der Kooij, Jim (author)The Dutch government set two environmental goals by 2050. One of them is being climate neutral and the other one is to have a circular economy. In order to meet both goals in the best environmental conditions, extensive environmental research is required. This thesis is one of these researches and its main focus is on the climate neutral goal by...master thesis 2019
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Lam, K.L. (author), Zlatanovic, L. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an established methodology to assess the potential environmental impacts of products and processes. We reviewed 49 recent LCA studies (2010-2019) on wastewater nutrient recovery to synthesise some current methodological practices. Their scopes, variations, nutrient recovery accounting, uncertainty and sensitivity...conference paper 2019
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Wu, Meimei (author), Ge, W. (author), Li, Zongkun (author), Wu, Zening (author), Zhang, Hexiang (author), Li, Juanjuan (author), Pan, Yipeng (author)Despite the rapid development of risk analysis in dam engineering, there is a relative absence of research on the environmental impact of dam break. As a systematic theory, set pair analysis has a good effect in dealing with uncertainties, although the result is relatively rough and easy to distort. A connection degree of five grades and a...journal article 2019
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de Boer, W.P. (author), Slinger, J (author), wa Kangeri, Arno K. (author), Vreugdenhil, H.S.I. (author), Taneja, P. (author), Addo, Kwasi Appeaning (author), Vellinga, T. (author)Long-term sustainable port development requires accounting for the intrinsic values of ecosystems. However, in practice, ecosystem considerations often only enter the planning and design process of ports when required by an Environmental Impact Assessment. At this late stage, most of the design is already fixed and opportunities to minimize...journal article 2019
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van Dongen, Karel (author)The objective of this research project is to verify whether 3D printing of concrete (3DPC) reduces the environmental impact by increasing the structural efficiency. During the literature study, numerous articles were identified that claimed an increase of structural efficiency by using 3DPC to reduce material use. Some of these articles suggest...master thesis 2018
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Kitsakis, Dimitrios (author), Dimopoulou, efi (author)The needs of modern, heavily urbanised societies, require, on the one hand, the most efficient exploitation of land by individual stakeholders and, on the other hand, have set up a variety of restrictions and regulations for the public benefit. Such restrictions are steadily growing in number and apply in various areas. Given the technological...conference paper 2018
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Hildebrand, L. (author), Konstantinou, T. (author), Kosanović, Saja (author), Klein, T. (author), Knaack, U. (author)Buildings are characterised as some of the greatest consumers and pollutants of the planet. However, the genesis of environmental design, in the context of its modern meaning, as shown in this paper, is not so much based on initial requests to reduce the negative pressure on the environment, but more on the tendency to ensure the continuity of...book chapter 2018