Anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment of Sol-Gel Derived Anti-Reflective Coating for Greenhouse Glass

Innovation has become one of the global aspirations of this era being the main driver not only for economic growth but also for sustainable development and improvement of human wellbeing. Although novel technology can bring benefits and opportunities, it may cause unintended and undesirable consequences to environment and society. In order to...

Future-proof woningcorporatie: Toekomstroute voor een flexibele woningcorporatie

Self-driven MRDH: A Method to Assess the Impact of Automated Vehicles on Urban Liveability in the Rotterdam The Hague Metropolitan Region

This project aims to build a spatial method to assess the impact of automated vehicles (AV) on liveability in the urban environment. The method is based on the tools of scenario construction, transect analysis and urban section, and is tested in the Rotterdam The Hague Metropolitan Region (MRDH). The goal of the method is to enable the urbanist...

Applying a life cycle perspective to research on metal recovery from electronic waste using bioleaching

The Master’s programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. Waste electronics and electrical equipment (WEEE) constitute a growing waste stream which is becoming more problematic in its management. Unsafe disposal contributes to environmental pollution and threatens human health as well...

Using Serious Gaming To Make Operations Safer On Anchor Handling Tugs

To an observer, it might appear that anchor handling is a fairly simple straightforward and profit making business. However, with deep-water drilling and fluctuations in price of oil, the operation is becoming riskier than ever before. Besides, operational and environmental constraints, the crew also has to deal with pressures of time and money....

Urban fast charging stations: A design of efficient public charging infrastructure for large numbers of electric vehicles in cities

How could urban areas provide public charging infrastructure for the rapidly increasing number of electric vehicles? The objective of this research is to develop a tool that helps municipalities and market players to understand the need for public charging infrastructure, and to design an efficient solution for charging large numbers of electric...

Crane accidents and safety regulation in the Dutch construction industry

The responsibility for safety in the Dutch construction industry is changing. The former Health and Safety act contains a lot of detailed requirements. However, the new law sets out generic safety targets instead of prescribing safety equipment and measures. Companies have more freedom to choose how the regulatory requirements are met. This...

Connected design: A scenario based design for transit oriented development in the Vlietzone The Hague

The Vlietzone is a large natural area at the edge of The Hague (South-Holland, The Netherlands). Surrounded by the highway A4 and A12 and the river Vliet it forms a secluded area. The municipality has selected this location for future expansion. It is the only large area availably within current city boundaries where expansion is allowed...

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of architecture

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of Architecture, is a project about corrupt well intended top-down pretentions. A project about when utopia becomes dystopia. About when the built environment becomes out of tune with experienced and desired reality. Accumulating to the point of large scale vacancy and crisis. The focus of the project...

Duurzame transformatie - Een tweede kans voor industrieel erfgoed

Onderzoek naar de mogelijke duurzaamheidsingrepen bij het duurzaam transformeren van industrieel erfgoed. Hierbij wordt gekeken naar de motieven van de opdrachtgever om in te spelen op duurzaamheid en de haalbaarheid van duurzame transformatie. Uiteindelijk worden scenario's met bijbehorende aandachtspunten geformuleerd. - Research on possible...

De-fragmenting Athens: Drosscape as a device for integration between the metropolitan and the local scale

The city of Athens underwent a rapid expansion that initiated in the 1950s and 1960s because of the transition from the agricultural to the industrial economy. Today, the capital of Greece is undergoing different transformations due to the shift from the industrial to the postindustrial and informational era. These observations could lead us to...