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From State-led to Aided Self-help: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

This paper aims to analyze the transnational discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the aided self-help model by the introduction of the ...

2022

How the Labour Self-Build: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

Sila Karatas

This presentation aims to discuss the transnational activity and discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the assisted self-help model by ...

2021

Heightening of Very High Gravity Dams: The Case Study of the Grande Dixence

Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Basile Clerc

Heightening very high gravity dams is one of the solutions considered as part of the energy transition and to mitigate the effects of climate change. The paper presents a stepwise approach to assess the potential for dam heightening and its impact on the h ...

Springer, Cham2021

On the Application of Small-Scale Turbines in Industrial Steam Networks

François Maréchal, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Ansgar Weickgenannt

This study investigates the technical and economic feasibility of replacing throttling valves with smale-scale, oil-free turbomachinery in industrial steam networks. This is done from the perspective of the turbomachine, which has to be integrated into a n ...

2021

Reuse s to xl, A network of hubs for research and resale of second hand architectural components and materials, as an active strategy for sustainability and circular economy

Célia Marine Küpfer

Distinct from recycling, reuse maintains the shape, energy, know-how, technology and cultural part embedded in a component to use it beyond an initial use into a new project without strongly altering it. The "hub" for research and resale of reusable constr ...

2019

Stiffness and Strength Estimation of Damaged Unreinforced Masonry Walls Using Crack Pattern

Katrin Beyer, Kiarash Mohtasham Dolatshahi

After an earthquake, the residual stiffness and strength of structural elements are typically estimated based on a qualitative visual inspection of cracks that is prone to error. In this paper a new approach is proposed to automatically estimate the update ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2019

Continuity Of Multimarginal Optimal Transport With Repulsive Cost

Maria Colombo, Federico Stra

We provide sharp conditions for the finiteness and the continuity of multimarginal optimal transport with repulsive cost, expressed in terms of a suitable concentration property of the measure. To achieve this result, we analyze the Kantorovich potentials ...

2019

Specific Environmentally-conscious Targets for Urban Planning – A method to inform the decision-making process

Émilie Nault

Ce projet collaboratif entre chercheurs académiques et partenaires industriels vise le développement d’une méthode d’aide à la décision dans la planification urbaine. Appliquée sur le projet de quartier blueFactory à Fribourg, et mise en œuvre sous forme d ...

2018

Hydropower Design under Uncertainties

Felix Oberrauch

The design of hydropower is determined by estimates and long-term forecasts. These forecasts and estimates are highly uncertain and make performance evaluation and design choices challenging. Performance evaluation of hydropower projects is affected by a n ...

EPFL2017

Hydropower design under uncertainties

Felix Oberrauch

Hydropower plants are still the most important renewable energy resource worldwide. Hydropower is also the most efficient electricity production and has a very high flexibility in combination with reservoirs. Nevertheless, the construction of hydropower pl ...

EPFL-LCH2017

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