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Jérôme Chenal, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka
This study applies Six-Sigma DMAIC methodology to enhance the efficiency of a manufacturing production line, specifically targeting the "gaps" between planned and actual working time. Key findings reveal that meetings, scanning, follow-up activities, walki ...
2024Personal carbon trading applied to Swiss air travel - Guaranteeing a fair access to climate ambitious aviation
The climate crisis requires rapid and substantial emission reductions from all economic sectors, aviation included. Given the limited impact that existing policies in aviation will provide in the next decade, national policies might be required to rapidly ...
2024Innovations Practitioners Need for Circularity in the Swiss Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Sector
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf
Although widely recognized as imperative for reducing global emissions and the amount of waste generated by the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector, a large-scale shift from a linear to a circular economy has not yet happened in practi ...
2023Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism
The extractive logic of Big Data-driven technology and knowledge production has raised serious concerns. While most criticism initially focused on the impacts on Western societies, attention is now increasingly turning to the consequences for communities i ...
Thousand Oaks2023(In)visible reuse: Retrofit and refurbishment practices in the home
The construction sector is the world's largest consumer of raw materials, and emissions from housing and construction contribute to approximately 40% of all annual global carbon dioxide emissions. With cities racing to meet their climate targets, there is ...
2023Reuse of concrete components in new construction projects: Critical review of 77 circular precedents
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer
Extracting pieces of concrete from obsolete buildings and reusing them, as is, in new assemblies is today rarely considered a strategy for improving the sustainability of the construction sector. By delaying the crushing of concrete into aggregates and avo ...
2023Safety Decision-Making for Laboratory Processes in Academia
There is a need for a tool that facilitates safety decision-making in the academic environment. As this environment is very different from that of industry or other public sectors, there is no information available on the factors that influence the decisio ...
2022Soft Sensorized Physical Twin for Harvesting Raspberries
Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kai Christian Junge
The use of robotic systems for harvesting of crops is a growing application domain in the agriculture sector. A key challenge is to develop robotic systems to harvest soft fruits such as raspberries which require delicate handling as they are easily damage ...
2022Testing mechanical performance of adhesively bonded composite joints in engineering applications: an overview
Anastasios Vassilopoulos, José Manuel de Sena Cruz
The development of new adhesives has allowed to expand the application of bonding into the most diverse industrial fields. This review article presents the commonly used experimental methods for the investigation of mechanical performance of adhesively bon ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021Co-Creation Lab Housing and Construction. Proposal "Transforming the construction sector"
Presentation of the co-creation lab project, designed to help the cement and concrete sector transition towards sustainable construction. ...
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