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de Vree, A.M.W. (author)
Maritime sectors have been notorious for their slow paced innovation efforts and although it is an efficient sector, it has big impact on the environment just because of the size of the industry (M. Rahim, et al. 2016). There is a lot of activity on the seas, changes in this sector could make a big difference when making our world become more...
master thesis 2023
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Shang, Tianxing (author)
Radiology department at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) aims at preventing ultrasound gel waste of leftover ultrasound gel in the bottle and reducing the waste of plastic gel bottles. The study identified a critical environmental issue – the excessive use of disposable plastic ultrasound gel bottles in hospitals – and undertook a...
master thesis 2023
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Lammers, Tom (author)
Over the past decades, global efforts have been made to address climate change and improve the well-being of our planet. The European Union (EU) has set ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets and strategies to combat climate change. Bio-energy, specifically biofuels produced from biomass, has gained significant attention as a...
master thesis 2023
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de Jager, Sterre (author)
Today’s fashion industry is characterised by a continuous cycle of rapid production, early disposal, low-quality materials, and pre- and post-consumer waste, with consequential environmental damage and social injustice. The production of denim involves a resource-intensive and lengthy supply chain, in which a lack of evolution in design over the...
master thesis 2023
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Temudom, Kulaporn Temudom (author)
Make Scents considers the impact of changing climate conditions on resource extraction by establishing an in-house laboratory that specializes in producing fragrances specific to a region. This contribution captures Berlin’s landscape transitory due to critical climate change. As of 2040 the Linden tree—a significant<br/>longstanding tree with...
master thesis 2023
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Muhamed Salim, Mehna (author)
Sustainability is seen as one of the most important challenges faced by the world today (Silvius, 2017). Within EPC companies, there are quite some ambitions at the strategic level to integrate sustainability into project procurement, but implementation at the project level is still quite limited. Additionally, existing literature focusing on...
master thesis 2022
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Ceylan, Altan (author)
Rijkswaterstaat has introduced the two-stage model in the Dutch construction industry in order to reduce risks in large and complex projects (Rijkswaterstaat, 2020a). However, it is also possible that the two-stage model can influence the sustainability of infrastructure projects since the risks are reduced and a different way of collaboration...
master thesis 2022
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Yan, Jiahui (author)
Many industrial buildings had remained the situation of vacancy since the late 1970s, reusing has become a term to be used as a sustainable method of preserving the cultural identity of these industrial buildings in order to prolong their life-span.<br/>The Hembrug site is a plot which was formed in the 19th century by reclamation of land in the...
master thesis 2022
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de Broekert, Corné (author)
Urbanization, modernization, and the growth of the population put severe pressure on the current Dutch building stock. Inner-city developments in Dutch cities are limiteddue to the high density of the urban fabric. Therefore, the focus of urban transformation gradually moved from the inner-city developments to the periphery of the city. These...
master thesis 2022
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Littel, Willem-Jon (author)
Refrigeration is an important aspect of the industrial world. As worldwide demand for it is growing while environmental issues are being increasingly addressed by regulations, the call for more sustainable practices in the refrigeration fields becomes louder and louder. Currently, refrigeration systems are mostly fragmented, each business having...
master thesis 2022
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Tol, Pien (author)
The research booklet presents the topic chosen for the graduation year of the masters of Architecture &amp; Heritage at the Technical University of Delft. The first two quarters of the graduation year were set up as a research phase, which was used as the starting point for the design phase of the second half of the year. “Heritage 4all: Univer...
master thesis 2021
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Visscher, Marin (author)
In May 2019 the Dutch permit system for nitrogen deposition was taken down for not abiding by EU legislation, which resulted in a large debate surrounding nature conservation. I researched the manner in which various newspapers portray this debate to their respective readers, in order to create a better understanding of the communicational field...
master thesis 2021
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Dijkhuizen, Micha (author)
Derako is a company specialized in designing and manufacturing wooden suspended ceilings, wall panels and façade panels. Derako faces the challenge of high production of waste, over 50% of their bought wood ends up as waste, additionally over 6500 kilograms of plastic waste is being produced. In their industry, Derako is not alone. The...
master thesis 2021
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Braker, Koen (author)
The current food industry is failing: universal food security has not been achieved, one-third of all food in the world is wasted and environmental degradation is more extensive than it should be (FAO, 2014). With the expected rise in global population to ten billion eating people by 2050, the environmental outcomes of food systems can be...
master thesis 2020
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Hofstee, Niels (author)
The construction sector contributes to a significant portion of global energy consumption, CO2 emissions and the use of material resources. As climate change escalates with rapidly increasing temperatures, more extreme weather patterns and rising sea levels, an urge to reduce the environmental impact is evident. <br/><br/>A discrepancy is...
master thesis 2018
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Schiltkamp, Elise (author)
The Netherlands is vulnerable to supply restrictions because of the importance of materials for economic development: materials are at the basis of the society. The materials that are particularly vulnerable to supply disruptions and are of high importance to the economy are called critical raw materials. The Dutch government has adopted the...
master thesis 2018
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Kupzhassarova, Tomiris (author)
For my graduation project I was aspired to devise a Public Interior that has a role and responsibility within the city and has a larger beyond its site impact and implication.<br/><br/>My effort was focused in the field of fashion due programmatic relevancy to Maastricht and due to my own very personal motivation of finding ways to challenge...
master thesis 2018
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van Es, Frank (author)
Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important aspect of the infrastructure industry, however, incorporating it has proven to be troublesome. As such, this thesis focussed on identifying success factors that influence the implementation process of sustainability from idea up to and including the tendering phase for public infrastructure...
master thesis 2018
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Papakonstantinou, Thanos (author)
In the packaging industry, there are certain criteria that characterize whether a package is sustainable or not. Thus, the design of the product is decided by satisfying the aforementioned criteria. However, when the whole supply chain is under study, the process is not so straightforward and the related science field is Sustainable Supply Chain...
master thesis 2017
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Vişniuc, Monica (author)
The present research applied a mixed approach for increasing the energy performance of retail spaces by setting new specific energy consumption targets and identifying what measures can be implemented at the building level to achieve the most energy gains. Energy benchmarking, a common practice of evaluating the building performance has been...
master thesis 2017
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