Een brug naar circulariteit: Een onderzoek naar de implementatie van kaders voor circulair asset management van verkeersbruggen

Mind the “sustainability” gap: An organisational analysis on the integration of sustainability in the redevelopment of existing infrastructural assets

This thesis explores the integration of sustainability in the Replacement and Renovation program (V&R) of Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) WNN, focusing on renewing and revitalizing aging infrastructure assets. With a substantial portion of RWS assets approaching the end of their design life, sustainability becomes crucial for continued functionality....

Sustainability in subcontractor and supplier selection: Qualitative research on the effectiveness of environmental EMAT criteria on achieving sustainability in the selection of subcontractors and suppliers in the Dutch infrastructure sector

The rapidly growing infrastructure sector has a detrimental effect on climate change. The infrastructure sector is responsible for approximately 10% of worldwide emissions. <br/>In the past years, sustainability became more important in the procurement of infrastructure projects. One of the ways to implement sustainability in infrastructure...

Hydrogen Supply Chain Optimisation: Wind­ Based Hydrogen Supply Chain Optimisation For Non-­Stationary Storage Applications In An Early Market Development Stage

Implementing green alternatives in the heavy­-duty mobility market is required to reach the set climate goals of 2050 and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Refuelling infrastructures based on alternative fuels such as hydrogen are not sufficiently available. This poses a barrier to large scale implementation and investment in new emission­ free...

Towards proactive decision-making for sustainability in the construction industry: An application to project delivery of urban utility infrastructure systems

An increasing awareness of sustainability problems urges the need for more sustainable practices within the infrastructure industry. Organisations actively engage sustainability in strategic missions and objectives. However, how these visions translate proactively to the tactical and operational levels of decision-making is still considered an...

Bold Cities: Building a decision-making supportive tool through exploration of BOLD methods to assess sustainability in landscape architecture projects

Projects of re-use of underused infrastructures to design sustainable urban landscape architecture represent a great contribution to meet the need for sustainability cities are experiencing today. Urban administrators often strive for a successful realization of such projects, to give a social and economic power impulse to poorly performant...

Factory for Good

This thesis explores the potential to use factories as sources of water and energy for peri-urban industrian contexts in developing countries. The project is situated in Bandung, Indonesia, on the border wall of a large textile factory surrounded by informal settlements. The project transforms the wall of the factory into a public facility that...

Sustainifying the Infrastructure Industry: Identifying Success Factors to implement sustainability into infrastructure projects

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...

Floating Community Manila: The design of a floating module for a resilient community in the flood-risk context of Manila, Philippines.

Urban populations in coastal contexts suffer increasingly from both environmental and spatial risks. Major flooding events, storms, fires, landslides and earthquakes coupled with the unorganized urban fabric located at the locations most at-risk to these hazards render millions of people extremely vulnerable. The externalities in terms of...

The Lobby of the Metropole

The lobby of the Metropole, a habitable bridge in Rotterdam In our mobilized epoch considered as the network era, hubs are crucial devices for the orchestration of our cities. Road and building mediate in the quality of our cityscapes like the Randstad in which we live as continuous commuters. The habitable bridge is used as the ultimate...

Duurzaamheid als Aanbestedingscriterium bij Haveninvesteringen

Many industries are already aware of the fact that they can gain higher profits by integrating sustainability within their management process. The construction industry seems to be a late developer. Lately, port authorities have started many initiatives for a more sustainable port. To make ports more sustainable it is worthwhile to improve the...