News 13 June 2022 Portugal & Netherlands Summerschool on Sustainable Campuses & Cities 30 May 2022 Energy-producing Echo building opened at TU Delft Campus From Monday 30 May, TU Delft teachers and students can start using sustainable education building Echo. After the summer break, the building will be in full use and the catering facilities will be fully operational. This energy-producing building on TU Delft Campus is set to contribute to TU Delft’s ambition of operating in a completely sustainable manner and becoming a carbon-neutral and circular campus by 2030. 30 May 2022 Handling stress: using wearable technology to help people with PTSD The obvious triggers of stress are all around us: pressing deadlines at work, children not sleeping through the night, a leaking roof. But sometimes it's smaller things, certain locations or specific times of day, that increase our stress levels. Understanding those triggers using wearable technology, with a focus on people who experience a lot of stress - people with PTSD - was the topic of Xueliang Li’s PhD research. 14 April 2022 3D printing metamaterials Imagine wanting to construct a personalised bike saddle, but the materials at your disposal are either too stiff for some parts of the buttocks or too soft for others… Creating a product that has different parts, each with unique requirements, often requires the use of different materials. But innovations in 3D printing are changing this by making it possible to create objects with spatial gradations in surface and volumetric properties – in other words, functionally graded materials (FGMs). These engineered metamaterials go beyond the characteristics found in naturally occurring materials. For his PhD, Tim Kuipers explored how toolpath generation and a manufacturing technique called fused filament fabrication (FFF) can be used to create more complex objects with varying material properties. 06 April 2022 Designing frameworks for smart cyber-physical systems Algorithms are all around you. They are in your office building within computer-regulated thermostats, they help pilots land the planes you fly in, they help robots manufacture the goods you use every day. But how do designers know which process to use or what information their devices need? And how do they get the many algorithms, which control these devices, to work together? In his Ph.D. research, Sirasak Tepjit set out to create a framework to help designers with exactly that. 10 February 2022 Delft Design researchers develop vision for new food system How will we consume food in the future? How will our food system meet the rising food demand while mitigating the negative consequences of food production and consumption? These questions drove the Food Waste: From Excess to Enough (FETE) research team to envision a new food system. 02 February 2022 TU Delft campus climate neutral by 2030 By 2030, TU Delft aims to be operating in a completely sustainable manner. All activities on and from the campus will then be carbon neutral, circular, climate adaptive and contributing to the quality of life for its users and for nature. Together with all staff, students and partners of the university, sustainability coordinator Andy van den Dobbelsteen is working hard to realize this ambition. Everyone can follow the progress on a new website. 27 January 2022 Why doesn't it work and can it be fixed? Everyday annoyances: the hoover that suddenly stops working, the washing machine that refuses to spin. Or, a small disaster for the at-home worker, the coffee machine that refuses to give you fuel. And yes, of course you can order a new one, but if you want to contribute to a circular economy, you might also want to see if there is anything that can be repaired. PhD researcher Beatriz Pozo Arcos studied how easily defects in household appliances can be diagnosed, and how design can help users do this. 12 November 2021 Climate Neutral 2030 Tour At TU Delft, researchers work every day on solutions for societal challenges, including sustainable innovations. As a climate university, TU Delft is also progressive in its own climate policy. 12 November 2021 TU Delft explores options for large-scale underground heat storage In 2020, for the WarmingUP/WINDOW research project, a feasibility study (haalbaarheidsonderzoek) was carried out for heat storage with an open geothermal energy system on the campus. ... Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 You are on page 7 Page 8 Page 9 ... Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page