Urban Resources: Banking on cities for secondary resources to release the pressure on natural environment and progress towards Environmentally Sustainable urban integrated systems

This thesis seeks to explore the concept of Circular Economy and its integration into urban planning as a tool of implementation. The goal of this thesis is to develop environmentally sustainable cities. To develop environmentally sustainable cities, the thesis focuses on two major resource flows in the city: food and water, whose waste streams...

A New Connection: The use of used timber in the construction industry

The thesis entails a project in which companies that collect, re-furbish and re-use , used building materials have been studied. The collaborating company, Buurman werkplaats en materialen, is such a company and was interested in becoming more attractive for the business to business market. For this reason, the analysis of the thesis focused on...

Smart Processing of Brass Smelter Residues

In this study a industrial survey was performed on the secondary products generated in the Dutch metal industry. From this industrial survey it was concluded that the Dutch metal industry is already far ahead with closing the materials cycle as for almost every product is a processing route to recover its metal content. The residues generated at...