Food Utility Network

A public utility network that spans across Europe built off of existing infrastructure to preserve and distribute food waste prepared by chefs for free to all citizens.

Dwelling as cash machine: An explorative study towards dwelling-generated revenue to reduce housing expenses

Housing affordability is a growing problem in the Netherlands. Approximately 15% of all households has a housing cost overburden rate (i.e. spending more than 40% of the household’s disposable income on the total housing expenses). This research explores a new way to contribute to housing affordability. Dwelling-generated revenue is introduced...

Samen verder?: De Public Private Comparator op decentraal niveau

This research examines the efforts of the Public Private Comparator (PPC) at the decentralized level in the Netherlands. The PPC is a financial-economic assessment tool that can be used before a tender to determine whether there is a surplus value for a specific project (real estate or infrastructure) in the form of a Public Private Partnership...

The Analytical Mechanics of Consumption: In Mechanical and Economic Systems

The Utility Lagrangian and the Surplus Hamiltonian in economic engineering do not depend on consumption.<br/>Two theories are proposed to include the effect of consumption in the Utility Lagrangian and the Surplus Hamiltonian. The second of these two theories resolves the dissipation obstacle in port-Hamiltonian systems as an additional result....