Architectural Young Classics: A sustainable reuse strategy for administrative office buildings of the 1970s and 1980s

The office architecture of the 1970s and 1980s makes up a large part of Dutch office building stock, at about 30%. Most buildings are now in need of major renovation and often no longer correspond to today's aesthetic perception. In addition, the function of the buildings must be adapted to today's needs and technological standards. This is not...

A modality innovation approach: How can royal schiphol group identify and select future proof forms of mobility?

Royal Schiphol Group is the overarching organisation of multiple airports, among which Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. As the world around these airports is quickly changing with aviation under pressure, and a huge amount of new potential modalities, RSG is in need of an approach to deal with new kinds of modalities. This project was executed for...

DIN 18 024 & 18 025: The development of barrier-free building in 1970s Germany

DIN 18 024 and 18 025, published in Germany in the 1970s, were among the first standards in Europe on the subject of accessibility in the built environment. The paper describes their historical context, reception and their effects on literature and practice.

Weight sensor readout system: Accurately measuring the resonance frequency of a passive wireless RLC resonator

This thesis’s objective was to re-design a weight sensor readout system for Intralox, an international manufacturer of conveyor belts and equipment. Intralox’s current implementation is expensive, too complicated, and inaccurate. After considering several possible readout implementations, an inductively coupled solution with a frequency-based...

Robotic wood crafting: An arctic shelter in the canadian tundra

With a declining mining industry, Canada is looking for new models of economy. Arctic Eco-Tourism has already started growing over the last decade and is expected to grow even more rapid in future. This brings the chance of economic growth and employment. But it is also a danger¬ous situation for nature. Since the Canadian north is to more than...

Simulation & Analysis of the Aerodynamic Interactions between Distributed Propellers and Wings

The recent advances in complementary technologies have given a new impulse in the research activities related to distributed propulsion. Light electric engines, whose performance is rather insensitive to scaling, improved battery capacities and autonomous flight all contribute to this trend. Promising concepts featuring electrically powered...

A self-sufficient group of dune houses

Het ontwerp van een optimaal preemfase netwerk voor per station tot de basisband demodulerende straalverbindingsapparatuur, werkend in de 10 GHz band.

Drie vormen van preemfase en hun bijbehorende netwerken vormen het uitgangspunt. Voor elk der vormen werd de mate van preemfase (max 10 dB) gevarieerd, waarbij het totale vermogen in de basisband aanwezig constant werd gehouden. De bijbehorende intermodulatie-vermogensspectra werden numeriek berekend door herhaalde convolutie van het ingangs...