In Copenhagen, delegates discuss emissions reductions of 80 to 90 percent by mid-century. Delta asked a number of TU experts: suppose you are going to be the first minister of Energy in the next Dutch cabinet, Balkenende V, how would you proceed?
“Waarom voelen architecten de behoefte om hun werk te rechtvaardigen?”, vroeg de Italiaanse architect Cino Zucchi tijdens een lezing. “We zijn zeer behaagziek geworden.”
Delta and Delft Integraal/Outlook often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to ‘RollerLift’, a wheelsystem that makes it easier to pass over a threshold?
Satellite positioning systems can be much more reliable if they correct for irregular ionospheric variations due to atmospheric gravity waves and geomagnetic storms, says PhD student Yahya Memarzadeh.
The ecological score of buildings can be expressed in one number: the environmental index. One of its founding fathers, Professor Michiel Haas, recently presented his vision for Delft in his inaugural address.
Just twelve hours after the tunnels of the A73 freeway near the city of Roermond where officially opened, they had to be closed again because a truck got stuck.
Name: Durandus Vonck (31)Nationality: DutchPhD supervisor: Dr. Richard Goosens (Industrial Design Engineering)Subject: Safer surgery with vacuum techniqueThesis defence: In less than two years“Minimal invasive surgery is tricky.
Civil engineering constructions are primarily functional. The Climate Adaptation Lab aims to add functions to weirs, sluices and bridges by encouraging civil engineering and architecture students to work together.
Due to heavy rainfall last Friday in northwestern England two bridges collapsed and 16 were closed for precautions, the BBC reports.
