Agile risk management: Enhancing the risk management process in projects through agile principles, methods and tools

A construction project is inherently complex, involving numerous stakeholders, lengthy timelines, and intricate relationships, leading to significant risk potential. The increased complexity of construction projects and the fact that a large percentage of projects are still delivered with significant delays and cost overruns has led to the...

Dynamic Performance Evaluation of Two-axis Lathes

With the increasing demand for extended service life and increased precision and accuracy of precision mechanics across various industries, machine tool manufacturers face the challenge of increasing the performance of their machines. To achieve this goal, the performance of the machines must be evaluated, points of improvement must be...

Towards a more connected Europe: An exploratory research on overcoming interorganizational incompatibilities in cross-border railway projects

As a subset of Large Infrastructure Projects (LIPs), cross-border projects are characterized by their technical complexity, lead time, diverse actors involved and immense coordination and collaboration challenges due to the participation of organizations coming from different nations and institutional frameworks. As researchers recognize, these...

The deployment of hydrogen in the Netherlands: Policy advise to accelerate the hydrogen transition in the heavy industry

In the Netherlands, it is envisaged that hydrogen will play a crucial role in the energy transition. Especially in this heavy industry, hydrogen will become essential to make this sector sustainable. In general, three types of hydrogen are used: grey, blue, and green hydrogen. This study focuses on green hydrogen, as it is produced without CO2...

Digital Solutions for a Circular Facade Economy: A conceptual framework for a Facade's Product Passport to Facilitate decision making at its End of Service(EoS)

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...

Incorporation of sustainability in construction project development: An analysis into the application of industrial ecology for the building environment

Despite its importance for the functioning of society, the building environment is a major contributor the global GHG emissions. Although there is an increasing attention for the transition towards sustainability, this sector seems to struggle in realising this transition. As a result, environmental conditions are still exceeding (some of the)...

Synthesizing an implementation framework for responsible research and innovation

The concept of Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) seems to gain initial momentum. The lack of collective meaning however, results in a plethora of publications, which describe RRI from ad hoc perspectives. To provide a robust foundation for scholars and practitioners seeking to implement RRI, we aim to integrate those perspectives...

Fully controlled photonic spin in highly confined optical field

As an intrinsic attribute of light, the spin angular momentum (SAM) of photons has aroused considerable attention because of the fascinating properties emerging from light–matter interactions. We show that a diffraction-limited focal field with a steerable photonic spin structure in three dimensions can be produced under a 4π microscopic...

An Analysis of the State of Framework Development for Reasoning in Smart Cyber- hysical Systems

Smart CPSs (S-CPSs) have been evolving beyond what was identified by the traditional definitions of CPSs. The objective of our research is to investigate the concepts and implementations of S-CPSs, and more specifically, the frameworks proposed for the fuzzy front end of their reasoning processes. The objectives of the paper are: (i) overview of...

Organizing servitization: Developing a framework to guide the transition for manufacturing firms

Since the early 1990s an increasing number of manufacturing firms such as IBM, Xerox and MAN are adding services to their products to meet the competitive pressures of product commoditization, stagnating sales and more demanding customers. This transition process is referred to as servitization. It appears that many manufacturing firms are...

Developing an assessment framework for energy storage technologies at a distribution level in the Netherlands

Electricity production and demand is expected to change significantly due to the transition towards a renewable energy system. Electricity produced from wind and solar energy, and the development of electric vehicles, µ-CHP and heat pumps have strong impact on the distribution grid. To maintain the high level of reliability of the distribution...