Higher Education and Wicked Problems: Students Engaging with Complexity and Uncertainty in Sustainability Transitions

The challenges we collectively face, such as climate change, are characterized by more complexity, interdependence, and dynamism than is common for educational practice. This presents a challenge for (university) education. These sustainability transition challenges are often described as wicked or VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and...

The influence of end-user perception on the economic feasibility of sustainable building skin renovations

Considering the small addition in the housing supply of newly built dwellings, meeting sustainable goals in the Netherlands will have to come from the existing housing supply. TU Delft’s Solar Decathlon 2014 design focuses on achieving a zero energy renovation that is both sustainable as well as attractive for inhabitants of the most frequent...

A research to the willingness to pay for different attributes in sustainable renovations

Can you keep a secret?

"Can you keep a secret?" is about a urban design for redevelopment of the Heijplaat area, and about an architectural design to transforming the former submarine shed of the RDM into an educational center for sustainable science. The thesis is relevant to the assignment we now face: finding a way to deal with the giant built structures left to us...

Duurzame transformatie - Een tweede kans voor industrieel erfgoed

Onderzoek naar de mogelijke duurzaamheidsingrepen bij het duurzaam transformeren van industrieel erfgoed. Hierbij wordt gekeken naar de motieven van de opdrachtgever om in te spelen op duurzaamheid en de haalbaarheid van duurzame transformatie. Uiteindelijk worden scenario's met bijbehorende aandachtspunten geformuleerd. - Research on possible...

A platform for secure, safe, and sustainable logistics

In the current society, logistics is faced with at least two big challenges. The first challenge considers safety and security measurements dealing with terrorism, smuggling, and related security accidents with a high societal impact. The second challenge is to meet sustainability requirements implying optimal use of resources and physical...