Publicaties

Energy matching: exploring the value of demand flexibility in educational office buildings

This research presents a case study exploring the potential for demand side flexibility at a cluster of university buildings. The study investigates the potential of a collection of various electrical devices, ...

Challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and design responses in public space: Towards strategies for resilient post-Covid cities

The Covid-19 pandemic triggered governments and designers to revalue and redesign public spaces. This paper focuses on the various design responses to Covid-19 proposed and implemented in public spaces.

Simulating industrial symbiosis

The European Commission aims for a full circular economy (CE), an economy that aims to reuse all resources in 2050. CE is a promising way to increase welfare and wellbeing while decreasing environmental footprints. ...

Flexpower3: Significant increase in grid hosting capacity without comfort loss, by smart charging based on clustering and non-firm capacity

A novel Smart Charging strategy, based on low base allowances per charger combined with clustering of chargers on the same part of the grid and dynamic non guaranteed allowance, is presented in this paper.

The long-term effects of COVID-19 Lockdowns on electric vehicle charging behaviour

The COVID-19 lockdowns showed that working from home and conducting meetings online can change mobility patterns and needs substantially. This global pandemic may have also substantially changed mobility patterns on ...

VAP-DC - Veilig Autonoom PV laadplein met DC distributie

In this charging plaze energy exchange will be done by a DC microgrid between PV, V2G electric cars and lighting. Control is done autonomous with Droop Rate Control.

Re-organise: Game-Based Learning of Circular Business Model Innovation

This study furthers game-based learning for circular business model innovation (CBMI), the complex, dynamic process of designing business models according to the circular economy principles.

Implementing organisational change in a digitalising facilities management organisation through stewardship interventions

While digitalisation requires facilities management (FM) organisations to change at an increasing rate, little is known about the mechanisms that create ownership and enable individuals to implement changes in ...

Institutional complexities of smart maintenance purchasing in higher education institutes: setting the scene

This paper analyzes the institutional context of maintenance purchasing in higher education. It aims to provide insights into the institutional complexities of smart maintenance purchasing in higher education institutes.

Repurpose

We beseffen steeds meer het belang van overschakelen van een lineaire naar een circulaire economie, waarin producten zo lang mogelijk worden gebruikt en afval geen afval is maar dient als grondstof voor nieuwe ...

Handboek voor erfafscheidingen

Praktisch handboek met voorbeelden en richtlijnen.

Analyse kosteneffectiviteit Electric Road Systems (ERS) voor Nederland

Voor emissievrije transportsector is het van belang dat bedrijven kunnen beschikken over een goed netwerk om de batterij van hun elektrische vrachtwagen op te laden. In dat kader heeft een consortium van Decisio, ...

Eindrapport KIEM-CE Project WOW - Waste-On-Water

In de binnenstad van Amsterdam wordt door infrastructuurproblematiek en het drukke verkeer de problematiek van bedrijfsafvalinzameling nog meer uitvergroot, naast dat de gemeente uitgesproken ambities heeft voor ...

“Once my front door – now my coffee table”; Advanced computational design and robotic production with waste wood

Growing volumes of wood are being used in construction, interior architecture, and product design, resulting in increasing amounts of wood waste. Using this waste is challenging, because it is too labor-intensive to ...

Positieve energie in de stad: innovatie voor een duurzame transitie

De klimaatverandering dwingt tot een versnelling van de energietransitie. Een stad als Amsterdam heeft hierin hoge ambities. Het lectoraat Energie & Innovatie werkt hieraan mee door technologische interventies te ...

Opinie: ‘Wanneer mogen wij als Amsterdammers mee-investeren in onze binnenstad?’

Met steun van de gemeente heeft NV Zeedijk negen kapitale panden op de Wallen gekocht. Goed nieuws, maar om deze ingreep echt effect te laten hebben, zullen buurtbewoners betrokken moeten worden bij het investeren in ...

Agent-based modelling and simulation for circular business model experimentation

The viability of novel network-level circular business models (CBMs) is debated heavily. Many companies are hesitant to implement CBMs in their daily practice, because of the various roles, stakes and opinions and ...

Factors influencing physical distribution structure design

This thesis studies the factors that influence physical distribution structure design. Distribution Structure Design (DSD) concerns the spatial layout of the distribution channel as well as the location(s) of ...

Programming for the subliminal brain

The use of biometric monitoring allow researchers insight into the processing of environmental data by our central nervous systems. As a result we can determine precisely which stimuli cause arousal or draw our ...

Behavioural perspective on car owners’ uptake of shared e-mobility

In the Interreg Smart Shared Green Mobility Hubs project, electric shared mobility is offered through eHUBs in the city. eHUBs are physical places in neighbourhoods where shared mobility is offered, with the ...

Are We Satisfying the Right Conditions for the Mobility Transition?

Global climate agreements call for action and an integrated perspective on mobility, energy and overall consumption. Municipalities in dense, urban areas are challenged with facilitating this transition with limited ...

Practical guidelines for designing recycling, collaborative, and scalable business models: A case study of reusing textile fibers into biocomposite products

Our current take-make-dispose economic model faces a vital challenge as it extracts resources from the natural environment at faster rates than that the natural environment can replenish. A circular economy where ...

Gedragsanalyse huishoudelijk afval

Om gemeenten en gemeentelijke diensten te ondersteunen bij het verbeteren van de bronscheiding door bewoners is de Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) maart 2021 een onderzoek gestart, genaamd BASSTA. In dit rapport ...

A broadband, high common-mode rejection ratio instrumentation amplifier

An operational amplifier based instrumentation amplifier (IA) with a common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) independent of resistance tolerances is presented in this paper. The CMRR is determined by the operational ...

Identifying Maturity Dimensions for Smart Maintenance Management of Constructed Assets: A Multiple Case Study

While smart maintenance is gaining popularity in professional engineering and construction management practice, little is known about the dimensions of its maturity. It is assumed that the complex networked ...

Actor Behaviour and Robustness of Industrial Symbiosis Networks: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach

Industrial Symbiosis Networks (ISNs) consist of firms that exchange residual materials and energy locally, in order to gain economic, environmental and/or social advantages. In practice, ISNs regularly fail when ...

Industrial Symbiosis Network implementation ABM <i>(version 1.1.0)</i>

This is a repository containing an agent-based model (code, data, documents and results) of Industrial Symbiosis Network implementation. The repository is related to the publication: Lange, K.P., Korevaar, G., ...

Accessibility of green areas for local residents

Green spaces play an important role in urban areas. We study the accessibility of green urban areas by combining open data sets about green with population size data. We develop a mathematical model to define the ...

Valuing Value in Innovation Ecosystems: How Cross-Sector Actors Overcome Tensions in Collaborative Sustainable Business Model Development

This article aims to uncover the processes of developing sustainable business models in innovation ecosystems. Innovation ecosystems with sustainability goals often consist of cross-sector partners and need to manage ...

Charging infrastructure roll-out strategies for large scale introduction of electric vehicles in urban areas

On the eve of the large-scale introduction of electric vehicles, policy makers have to decide on how to organise a significant growth in charging infrastructure to meet demand. There is uncertainty about which ...

Benutten datacenter restwarmte: casus Amstel III

Deze publicatie beschrijft de aanpak en de tools die ontwikkeld zijn in het RiRa: Amstel III project, dat de totstandkoming van een open warmte en koudenet in Amstel III onderzocht.

Een blauwdruk voor de monitoring van transities in de logistiek van mainports

Een blauwdruk voor de monitoring van transities in de logistiek van mainports.

Buurtdragers in de Couperusbuurt

Onderzoek naar buurtdragers en buurtbinding in de Couperusbuurt Amsterdam Nieuw West

Gas op elektrisch

Deze publicatie presenteert de resultaten van het ‘Gas op Elektrisch’ project: een onderzoek naar zeroemissieservicelogistiek (ZE-servicelogistiek) in stedelijke regio’s. Servicelogistiek omvat het ...

Benchmark prijstransparantie: Onderzoeksmethode

Het Klimaatakkoord bevat meer dan 600 afspraken om de uitstoot van CO2 tegen te gaan. Een belangrijk deel van deze afspraken gaat over mobiliteit. Bij het verminderen van de uitstoot binnen het domein mobiliteit ...

Ondergrondemancipatie in ruimtelijke planning: een agenda

Of het nu gaat om de energietransitie, klimaatadaptatie of verdere verdichting in steden: in de ondergrond wordt naar oplossingen gezocht en vaak ook gevonden. Dat is mooi, maar zorg is op zijn plek. Op strategisch ...

Climate resilient urban retrofit at street level

The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies

Most research on hydrological risks focuses either on flood risk or drought risk, whilst floods and droughts are two extremes of the same hydrological cycle. To better design disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures ...

Hitteproef in woningen

Het rapport vat de resultaten samen van het onderzoek Hitteproef in woningen dat tot doel heeft meer inzicht te krijgen in de koelbehoefte van woningen en de factoren die van invloed zijn op oververhitting van ...

Fast Charging Systems for Passenger Electric Vehicles

This paper explores current and potential future use of fast charging stations for electric passenger vehicles. The aim of the paper is to analyse current charging patterns at fast charging stations and the role of ...