News Climate Action Stories What is the coolest tree? My façade is your façade!? The next phase in aircraft design ESP Lab - Peter Palensky, Digital Technologies ESP Lab - Lucia Beloqui Larumbe, Power Electronics ESP Lab – Miro Zeman, Photovoltaics A meaty trick: plant-based deception for good Fransje Hooimeijer Moved by moving water LandShapes: made to feel real Climate Action News Open menu 06 February 2020 Roots for riverbanks The Netherlands has had an indissoluble relationship with water throughout history. Nowadays, 2400 km of waterways flowing through its veins use timber retaining walls along their banks. A more eco-friendly solution than brick or concrete but, still, not as sustainable as it could be. Civil Engineer Abhijith Kamath is researching an alternative method to use tree roots to strengthen waterways’ banks. Making Dutch channels greener in every way. Read more 05 February 2020 The breathing of dikes When looking at a dike, you wouldn’t be able to detect any motion in this robust structure. Though in fact there is. On a millimetre level, dikes expand and shrink in relation to the weather conditions. Ece Özer showed that observing this ‘breathing’ of dikes could help prevent catastrophic flooding events. She used this feature to create an innovative model based on satellite data to better detect weaknesses in a dike. Read more 04 February 2020 Not a band-aid but a feeder solution for our coasts At the weekend Matthieu de Schipper likes to surf the waves but on weekdays he studies how they transport the sand along the coast and up and down beaches. ‘Sea level rise is a threat to coasts across the globe. I want to use the forces of nature to provide engineering solutions to this problem on a global scale’. At the Sand Motor project in the Netherlands De Schipper is training students to do the necessary fieldwork. In all weathers. Read more 01 February 2020 What the Wadden can teach us Intertidal zones are crucial for the protection of our coast and as stop-overs for migrating birds. But, increasingly, many of these sand and mudflats are disappearing permanently underneath the waves. Cynthia Maan investigated how by cooperating with nature and using a systems-based approach these precious resources can be saved. Read more 30 January 2020 Making dikes safer with a bass guitar Playing a bass guitar on top of a dike. It’s not something you see a TU Delft scientist do every day. Yet this is exactly how post-doc Juan Aguilar-López tested his experiment on dike monitoring with the use of fiber optic cables. A technology which could greatly improve dike safety in the future. Read more ... Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 You are on page 36 Page 37 Page 38 ... Do you want to be updated on Climate Action news and events? Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page