Renewal and reuse: A holistic sustainable transformation of modern shopping mall "In the Bogaard (Rijswijk)"

This research and design explores holistic sustainability as a remedy for long term development of modern shopping malls in the Netherlands. Shopping malls are susceptible to changes and sometimes fail to create an equal balance between the environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainability, leading to vacant shops and lower quality of...

Project Journey Embassy: Foster the continuity of multidisciplinary collaboration in an IT consulting service towards problem-solving innovation

The application of multidisciplinary collaboration has become a trend to prevent knowledge isolation obstructing business development (Schaubroeck, Tarczewski, &amp; Theunissen, 2016), particularly in the IT industry as it pursue problem-solving innovation.<br/><br/>An IT service company is currently striving to transform into an IT innovation...

Rethinking the ruin: Redesigning based on values conveyed by locals and tourists in Faro, Portugal

This paper describes the method followed in the intervention project<br/>following the analysis of façade attributes and value in the neighborhood of Sao<br/>Francisco in Faro, Portugal. It is composed of three main parts: Research results,<br/>Intervention bases and architectonic project. Following the work described on<br/>the research (Herck,...

Towards a Safer and More Reliable Selective Classifier: With Human Knowledge and Value Incorporated

While the performance of traditional confidence-based rejectors is heavily dependent on the calibration of the pretrained model, this study proposes the concept of feature-based rejectors and the whole pipeline where such rejector can be used in. Multiple design and development decisions along the implementation are discussed in the paper -...

Creating value for citizens through citizen participation in urban regeneration: A case study on the value created for citizens through citizen participation during the regeneration of the Lodewijk van Deysselbuurt in Amsterdam

The use of citizen participation in urban regeneration projects in Western European cities is increasing. Particularly in Amsterdam, participation with regards to regeneration projects is stimulated by the city government. Although the literature shows that not all such participatory processes are of value to citizens, there is a lack of...

Business Valuation in the Frequency Domain: A Dynamical Systems Approach

Business valuation is a set of procedures used by financial market participants to determine the price they are willing to pay or receive for businesses. Valuations play a crucial role in financial reporting, capital budgeting, and investment analysis. Current approaches to business valuation rely on professional expertise, causing the valuation...

The Osservanza: an integrated adaptive reuse project

Historical campuses enabled post-Age of Enlightenment organizations’ operations and allowed them to adapt with times, supporting their processes of adaptive reuse transformation throughout the institutions’ recursive managerial cycles. However, the radical reforms which concerned these organizations since the second half of the 20th century,...

Optimizing Construction Knowledge Integration in Offshore Wind Projects

'Construction Knowledge' is the requisite knowledge for effective and efficient construction and its use in project processes across project lifecycle for better constructability is 'Construction Knowledge Integration (CKI)'. Past researches show that there is limited integration of construction knowledge in preparation stages of the project...

Machinic Magic

This project is an attempt to bring back play, from the mere simulation it is now, to a creative force that it once was. It questions whether the entertainment park is still relevant in contemporary society and whether it can be reimagined and transformed from a scripted to a more unscripted arena of action. The aim of this project is to create...

Behind the scenes: A tool to proactively stand by your clients

The current state STBY specialises in design research for service innovation. They work on complex projects in collaboration with clients who want to innovate their service offering. Clients are often large organisations, in which multidisciplinary teams work on different projects that are interlinked at some level within the organisation. STBY...

The created value of an Urban Consolidation Centre differentiated in last-mile and network-associated value

The last few miles when transporting goods are often the most expensive. This is called the `Lastmile' and is under increasing attention in literature and with decision makers. In addition to being expensive the last mile frequently runs through urban areas and contributes to local pollution and congestion. One possible method to increase...

Exploration of an Open ICT Platform for Energy Monitoring towards a Sustainable Economy

There are two important perspectives in Green ICT (Green Information & Communication Technology). First, is the Primary Level Segment (PLS) which deals with minimizing the negative impact of ICT use on environment and greening the ICT infrastructure of an organization [4]. Second, is the High Level Segment (HLS) which uses ICT as an enabler to...

Framework to Measure Value in Oil & Gas Industry: A Case study of Non Destructive Testing

This master thesis researches about measurement of performance and value of an inspection technology in Oil & Gas industry. The specific focus of this research is to analyze the case of Corrosion under Insulation (CUI) and how can the Non Destructive Inspection Techniques bring value in detecting CUI. Non Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques are...

A meaningful brand image and new customer experience for tap water consumers

This graduation report is about how the tap water company Oasen should deal with their household customers. The analysis focused on the company itself, external factors that play a role and the perception of customers. A strategy has been developed as well as a roadmap for implementing a new way of looking at customers resulting in a new...

Innovation of the runway system maintenance strategy at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol using the Value Operations Methodology

The main goal of this research is to create and analyse a series of alternative runway system maintenance strategies for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. For the analysis, a trade-off framework is built to determine whether these alternatives are an improvement over the current strategy. This framework thus assists the decision making process...