Tu Delft imprint: 25 books
by Sonja Van Dam
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Smart Energy Management for Households infers design-related insights and guidelines to improve the use and effectiveness of home energy management systems (HEMS) through an empirical evaluation of the longitudinal effectiveness of these devices and an exploration of factors that influence their...
by Linda Hildebrand
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
This year's fifth issue of A+BE outlines the relevance of the building substance as factor for the overall sustainable performance of the built environment. It wants to sensibilize the designer for the ecological dimension of planning decisions and to show how to optimize them. Design and construction...
Between Flexibility and Reliability
Changing Planning Culture in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban...
Negotiation and Design for the Self-Organizing City
Gaming as a method for Urban Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This book is dedicated to building an open negotiation and design method for cities as self-organizing systems that bridges the gap between collaborative planning and collaborative design methods. Gaming as a tool for knowledge creation and negotiation serves as an interface between the more abstract...
Duurzame Ontwikkeling door Collectief Bewonersinitiatief.
Leidraad voor professionals om bewonersgroepen aan de duurzaamheidsopgave te verbinden
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Collectief bewonersinitiatief gericht op duurzame energie-optimalisatie is in Nederland in opkomst. Ook de installatietechniek speelt daar met een nieuw type installaties voor meerdere huishoudens op in. De onderliggende redenen voor deze trendwijziging liggen in een terugtredende overheid en een...
by Reinier Van Der Kuij
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Woningcorporaties en vastgoedontwikkeling, dat is een logische combinatie. Tenminste, het lijkt een logische combinatie. Woningcorporaties worden niet voor niets nog steeds vaak woningbouwverenigingen genoemd. Vastgoedontwikkeling is altijd één van de activiteiten geweest waar woningcorporaties...
Evaluation of Plan Implementation
Peri-urban Development and the Shanghai Master Plan 1999-2020
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years....
by Esra Bektas
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This volume of A+BE examines the current extent of knowledge sharing between actors who form design teams of Large Complex Building Projects (LCBPs), the problems that limited knowledge sharing causes in such projects. As part of this analysis I compare deliberately designed and emerging project-specific...
Building for a better hospital
Value-adding management & design of healthcare real estate
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In this thesis, the ideas and concepts of Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) are examined in terms of the contribution they could make to the process of accommodation decision by using recent cases in Dutch hospitals. CREM can be defined as the management of the real estate portfolio of a corporation...
Performance measurement of workplace change
in two different cultural contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Nowadays, organisations must cope with the pressure of cost reduction and efficiency in order to succeed in a highly competitive business environment. However, drivers to improve social interaction and employee’s performance and as such to contribute to organisational goals and objectives make it...
Flowscapes
Designing infrastructure as landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of...
Transformations of Urbanising Delta Landscape
An Historic Examination of Dealing with the Impacts of Climate Change for the Kaoping River Delta in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This book argues that the floods following extreme precipitation result not only from very heavy rainfall but also from the significant impact of human activities on natural water systems. While most literature emphasises that the increasing magnitude of storm rainfall extends beyond the original...
by Paul Meurs
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Heritage-based design concerns the relationship between design approaches and the cultural heritage essence of a monument. How to approach a design? How to get a grip on a site? How can a designer incorporate existing qualities of the heritage in the design? Chapter 1 describes the trends in the Netherlands,...
AM Envelope
The potential of Additive Manufacturing for facade constructions
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
This book shows the potential of Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the development of building envelopes: AM will change the way of designing facades, how we engineer and produce them. To achieve today’s demands from those future envelopes, we have to find new solutions. The term ‘AM Envelope’...
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