Renovation techniques for fatigue cracked orthotropic steel bridge decks

This dissertation presents the research into renovation techniques for orthotropic steel bridge decks. These techniques are needed to solve fatigue problems in the decks of these bridges, as several fatigue cracks have been detected in the deck structure of these bridges the last decade. A well-known example of fatigue cracks are those observed...

Policies for improving energy efficiency in the European housing stock

According to EC forecasts, if energy efficiency could be increased 1% annually until 2010, two-thirds of the potential energy saving in the EU could be achieved. This would comply with 40% of the EU's Kyoto obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8% on the 1990 level by 2010-12, by cutting 200 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year....

Energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies in urban renewal

Sustainable housing policies and the environmental potential of the existing housing stock in Europe

What is the environmental potential of the existing housing stock in the EU and the accession countries? How prepared are the countries to face the challenge of the existing housing stock? This article describes policies and policy instruments currently used to encourage sustainable renovation in Europe based on the national progress reports of...

Maashavensilo Rotterdam: A new urban junction

The search for the most eco-efficient strategies for sustainable housing transformations

Sustainable housing policies for the existing housing stock in Europe

The future of the restoration

The title 'The Future of Restoration' implies that there is a future lor restoration. Putting this even more strongly, the future of restoration is becoming increasingly important. Not only are monuments our witnesses to the past but these witnesses have much to tell about the organisation of life of work in the past, about how structures were...

Urban heritage, building maintenance: Iron & steel

In the 1ge century what had been the traditional building techniques up to th at time were considerably changed owing to the use of cast iron and later wrought iron and steel. In fact, the industrial revolution, initially based in England, would not have been possible without these materiais. Not only the development of the product, in which the...

Urban heritage, building maintenance: Foundations

What do we understand by the term 'foundations'? This general idea may embody the literal ' groundwork' that provides support for a building and may possibly include the entire structural works that serve to pre vent subsidence. Remarkably, in this definition the word 'groundwork' incorporates both the 'ground' itself and the structural 'works'....

Urban heritage, building maintenance: Concrete

Concrete as a conglomerate of sand, stone and a binder, is a very old material indeed. In the Roman period earth from Puozzoli, together with lime and water could bind the sand and the stones to form a conglomerate that has an affmity to our modem concrete. Later, in the more northem areas of Europe, the use of trass, plus water for a reaction,...

The Future of the former 'werkplaatsen gebouw'

This book shows the essentials of the work of students on a theoretical commission to renovate 'het werkplaatsengebouw' for new functions. The students from the TU Delft, the PT Krakow and the FH Münster tried to find the best adaptations to give the building a new life. 'Het werkplaatsengebouw' is situated on a peninsula in the city of...