As a German conglomerate company specialized in electrical engineering and electronics, operates Siemens the world market with eight different divisions ranging from Power and Gas to Mobility. This study refers to the division Siemens Building Technologies (BT), the worlds market leader for energy efficient …

The ‘Grand Challenges’ of our times, like climate change, resource depletion, global inequity, and the destruction of wildlife and biodiversity can only be addressed by innovating cities. Despite the options of tele-working, tele-trading and tele-amusing, that allow people to participate in ever …

In the aviation sector, communication problems have contributed into 70% to 80% of safety occurrences. However, to date we haven’t depicted which communication aspects have affected aviation safety most frequently. Based on literature, we developed a tool which includes communication characteristics …

In het kader van de afstudeeropdracht voor de opleiding civiele techniek aan de Hogeschool Arnhem & Nijmegen is er een onderzoek uitgevoerd bij Van Boekel bouw & infra. De hoofdvraag van deze opdracht is gesteld door het bedrijf zelf. Deze is als volgt “Wat is er nodig om BIM te implementeren bij …

Reading and writing is modelled in CSP using actions containing the symbols ? and !. These reading actions and writing actions are synchronous, and there is a one-to-one relationship between occurrences of pairs of these actions. In the CPA conference 2016, we introduced the half-synchronous alphabetised …

De cultuur op de woningmarkt is verschoven van een aanbodcultuur naar een vraagcultuur. De bewoners weten nu steeds beter wat ze willen hebben en houden hier sterker aan vast. De bouwsector wordt nog gedomineerd door een traditionele taakcultuur en kan daarmee slecht aan de vraag voldoen. Industrieel …

Dit artikel behandelt de problematiek van transities en continuïteit van ondersteuning bij mensen met een verstandelijke beperking. Het onderzoek kijkt naar de vraag welke wensen en behoeften mensen met een lichte en matige verstandelijke beperking (of gezinnen met één of meerdere gezinsleden met een …

We apply the capability approach to understand the scope and limitations of community efforts to support older adults dwelling in integrated service areas (ISAs) in the Netherlands. An ISA is a neighborhood-based form of care organization aimed at the widening of opportunities to achieve well-being goals …

In this paper we explain why Axiomatic design has not been applied in large system of systems information technology architectures in health care organizations in the Netherlands. We have found in extensive case studies of IT systems that the Independence axiom could not be found in the existing Information …

Local government organizations such as municipalities often seem unable to fully adopt or implement web accessibility standards even if they are actively pursuing it. Based on existing adoption models, this study identifies factors in five categories that influence the adoption and implementation of …