Strategic monitoring to account for rapid variations in the nitrate concentration of groundwater and surface water

As part of two PhD projects, we installed ion-selective electrodes and passive samplers for monitoring nitrate concentrations in a 7 km 2 catchment and compared the results to grab samples. We also monitored nitrate concentrations at the catchment outlet. We tested the effectiveness of these monitoring approaches to estimate the long-term...

Integral building design approach of building and occupants: Follow the sun

Design for adaptability should start with the occupants needs for comfort and indoor air quality. These are partly influences by the changing environmental forces as wind and sun. Weather predictions and the aggegated voting of users about their thermal comfort, should be the leading parameters to adaptable comfort and the adaptable building. To...

Collaborative integral design of active roofs

The application of photo-voltaic elements is the most economical on the roof. Still this often leads to severe problems due to poor coordination of all the design and practical aspects involved. This paper describes the research methodology, based on Methodical Design, as used in a design approach related to practice and the 6th European...

Workshops in Dutch sustainable building design practice

Within the present context of the Dutch Sustainable Building Practice it is hard for the different involved building design disciplines to give a good answer to sustainability. Especially this is the case for the application solar energy either in passive or active form. As traditional methods did not work out adequately a new approach within...