Impact Assessment of the Partial Closure of the Ham Luong Estuary

The Mekong Delta in Vietnam is facing several challenges as a result of climate change. Among others, the effects include an increase in river discharge during the wet season, leading to river floods, and a decrease in river discharge during the dry season. The decrease in discharge results in a shortage of fresh water required for irrigation...

Preliminary Assessment of the Behaviour of Temporary Flood Barriers in Floods

Due to an extraordinary precipitation event in July 2021, the Dutch government want to utilise the temporary flood barriers to reduce the impact caused by a flash flood event in the future. As a result, Water Board Limburg, Flood Proof Holland and Delft University of Technology made an agreement to conduct a physical experiment in Roermond on...

DIN 18 024 & 18 025: The development of barrier-free building in 1970s Germany

DIN 18 024 and 18 025, published in Germany in the 1970s, were among the first standards in Europe on the subject of accessibility in the built environment. The paper describes their historical context, reception and their effects on literature and practice.

The Rise of Barrier-free Architecture: An analysis of the architectural response to the evolution on of building codes and regulations following the Disability Rights Movement in the United States of America (1950s-1990s)

The building regulations that shape today’s standards of modern architecture have a remarkable historic background that may often be overlooked. What some young architects may perceive as guidelines that are constraining to the design process, are in fact the result of decades of activism for a more inclusive built environment. While...

Framework for Reuse of Secondary Products in New Constructions

Reuse of building material is an integral part of making the product circular. However, there is lack of working frameworks and practical tools which can quantify the feasibility of reuse over other choices such as virgin material use or recycling for that matter. Therefore, this research focuses on the development of such a working framework...

A predictive view on Durbans flood safety: The Golden Mile protected in style

Durban is the third largest city of South-Africa, located in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The city suffers from severe floods from time to time, finding its cause in both the Indian ocean as well as the Umgeni river. The eThekwini municipality wishes a better insight in the occurrence of these floods and searches for a structural solution to...

Flood Prevention Guayaquil: A feasibility study on local stormwater storage and the effect of sea branch closure to prevent pluvial and coastal flooding

The city of Guayaquil suffers from regular floods. During the wet season, typically from late December until late April or early May, multiple floods per week can occur. Mainly the excessive rainfall in combination with high tide penetrating into the city results in a high flood risk, but some flood-prone areas can also flood in case of spring...

Physical Scaling of Tocardo’s Eastern Scheldt Turbines: Additional Graduation Work

Additional thesis - The largest structure of the Dutch Delta Works, that protect the Netherlands against high water levels at sea, is the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier. The Eastern Scheldt barrier is constructed as an<br/>open structure that can separate the Eastern Scheldt estuary from the North Sea. In case that water<br/>levels of +3.00...

Determination whether a large scale Tesla valve could be applicable as a fish passage

Additional Thesis - All around the world many species are dying out locally or entirely due to interferences in their habitats. One of the big problems for marine life is the creation of migration barriers which preclude migrating species to complete their life cycle.Fish passages are a way for migrating species to get around obstructions in a...

Design of the Muong Chuoi Barrier

Ho Chi Minh City has to deal with severe flooding in the rainy season. To prevent the city from this flooding, MARD set up plan 1547. The main idea of the plan is to build a ring dike around HCMC in combination with several movable tidal barriers. One of these barriers is the Muong Chuoi Barrier. In this report a conceptual design of the Muong...