Integrating railway network development with hierarchically lower modalities of public transport: A case study on the Amsterdam – Lelystad corridor

Urbanization, a desire for a reduction of CO2 and a need for a more efficient use of space are likely to greatly increase demand for rail travel in the coming decades. To improve railway capacity, extra infrastructure can be built, or existing track can be optimized. A silo analogy provides an interesting idea for an integral approach to network...

Designing Construction Management: The application of design thinking by construction managers in a construction-driven FEED phase of oil & gas projects

“Who of us would not be happy to lift the veil behind which the future is hidden and to focus our thoughts on the unknown future” (Shepherd & Williams, 2015). What if we already know our unknowns, would it not be a piece of cake to deliver construction projects of high quality within time and budget? In order to predict the unknown future,...

Sponge City Project

The report starts in Chapter 1 with an introduction to the Sponge City Programme (SCP) in China and the project area which is the ErQi International Business District in Wuhan. In this chapter, the problem statement, our collaboration with Arcadis and our project goals are also introduced. Chapter 2 delves into our methodology to tackle the...

Social-Ecological-Technical systems in urban planning for a circular economy: an opportunity for horizontal integration

The Circular Economy (CE) is receiving interest worldwide as a way to overcome the currently dominating linear and wasteful production and consumption models of our society. Currently the implementation of CE thinking into practice is still in an early stage. As the main hubs of consumption and to a more limited extent also, production,...

An integrated approach to flood risk management and spatial quality for a Netherlands’ river polder area

Reservoir stratigraphy and architecture of glacial tunnel valleys reservoirs: Examples from Ordovician of North Africa and Pleistocene of North America

Upper Ordovician glaciogenic rocks from Block-NC186, in the Murzuq Basin, SW Libya, represent important hydrocarbon reservoirs. The producing reservoirs are found in glacial incisions filled by the Melaz Shuqran and Mamuniyat formations. These formations present complex reservoir architecture and high sediment heterogeneity. Understanding the...