A Conceptual Framework for a Digital Circular Built Environment: The Data Pipeline, Passport Generator and Passport Pool

This article proposes a conceptual model to address the structural holes in data sharing between (and beyond) actors in the circular built environment supply chain and monitoring circular economy progress. Current digital innovations such as material passports and Building Information Modelling applications aim at increasing quality and...

Developing a go to market strategy for an assistive technology product

The number of visually impaired cases have been exponentially rising in recent time; there are 30Mil visually impaired people in Europe . This has lead to the creation of a big industry of assistive technology devices for the visually impaired community. Envision, a start-up developing artificial intelligence products for the visual impaired,...

Three philosophical perspectives on the relation between technology and society, and how they affect the current debate about artificial intelligence

Three philosophical perspectives on the relation between technology and society are distinguished and discussed: 1) technology as an autonomous force that determines society; 2) technology as a human construct that can be shaped by human values, and 3) a co-evolutionary perspective on technology and society where neither of them determines...

Toward accessing spatial structure from building information models

Data about building designs and layouts is becoming increasingly more readily available. In the near future, service personal (such as maintenance staff or emergency rescue workers) arriving at a building site will have immediate real-time access to enormous amounts of data relating to structural properties, utilities, materials, temperature,...

Can We Make Sense of the Notion of Trustworthy Technology?

In this paper we raise the question whether technological artifacts can properly speaking be trusted or said to be trustworthy. First, we set out some prevalent accounts of trust and trustworthiness and explain how they compare with the engineer’s notion of reliability. We distinguish between pure rational-choice accounts of trust, which do not...

Toepassing van kennissystemen voor diagnose van vliegtuigsystemen

Maintenance organisations experience an increasing pressure to optimize the availability of company assets. Meanwhile the complexity of systems increases. As a consequence, there is a need for tools with which maintenance can be performed more effectively and efficiently. NLR is engaged in applied research into knowledge-based systems for...