Latest news Open menu Search 295 results rss Open menu 26 June 2024 Colleague dr. Jan-Willem Foppen (1965–2024) passed away Read more 20 June 2024 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize for Gertjan Medema Professor Gertjan Medema has been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2024 for his groundbreaking research and significant contributions to sewage epidemiology for virus detection in wastewater during the COVID-19 pandemic. His timely research breakthrough enabled the use of wastewater surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Tharman Shanmugaratnam of the Republic of Singapore presented the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize medallion to Gertjan Medema. At the beginning of the pandemic, he and his team were the first to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in the Netherlands. His research enabled the use of wastewater surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic to stop the spread of the virus and had a global impact. Read more 17 June 2024 Gauging Antarctica’s sponginess from space Read more 24 May 2024 Remote sensing research reveals pre-collapse monitoring of Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine New findings from a spaceborne monitoring team of University of Houston, TU Delft and DLR indicates the collapse of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine may have been already ongoing before the war with Russia, with deformations in the dam pre-dating the actual collapse. The results were published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment this month. Read more 17 May 2024 Wrapping instead of welding boosts construction endurance Structures constructed to produce energy offshore have to hold out in rough circumstances. The so-called jacket foundations made of large steel tubes that fixate windmills to the seabed are sensitive to fatigue loading, especially their welded connections. In the near future, the fatigue endurance of this steel construction can be a hundred times better thanks to an innovation by TU Delft of wrapping the joints with composite material, instead of welding them. Read more 14 May 2024 Untapping the hidden resources Read more 13 May 2024 Revolutionising deconstruction: A robot for sustainable material recovery In response to the need for sustainable construction practices, an international group of researchers has secured a HORIZON Europe grant. They will develop a groundbreaking digitalized, autonomous, and intelligent identification system, including a robot. This innovative technology aims to revolutionize the construction industry by efficiently identifying and extracting reusable materials, products and building components in end-of-life buildings. Read more Page 1 You are on page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 ... Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page