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Rainscreen facade panels made from walnut shells, an ancient building technique in a modern guise, a circular chain for neodymium magnets. These are some winning topics from the Circularity in the Built Environment Graduation Awards, find more here👉 edu.nl/39bam

Jose Paredes Pineda created a testing protocol for safe reuse of prestressed concrete bridge girders. He focused on assessing the strength of girders reclaimed from a 1968 viaduct for reuse in a new structure. 🔗edu.nl/qwqbd #WeekvandeCirculaireEconomie

🎉@NWONieuws has awarded a Vici grant of up to 1.5 million euros to four TU Delft researchers. This will enable them to develop an innovative line of research and further expand their own research group for 5 years. 🔗edu.nl/4xf7h

🎉🌱The Green Village has gained a valuable new testing facility: the medium heat press! With this press, entrepreneurs, students, and creative makers can press 60 x 60 cm biobased samples and prototypes without having to invest in expensive equipment themselves.

💡 When discussing innovation, people think of new technology. However, the truly innovative companies know that behaviour is crucial. 🚀 "You need to transform the R&D department into a startup department", says professor Frido Smulders. 👉More: edu.nl/7mqhf

🏆 National Archiprix 2025 – showcasing the best Dutch master's graduation projects in architecture and design. 📍Visit the exhibition in the Oostserre (@BKTUDelft) until March 19. The jury deliberations and public discussions will lead to the selection of the top projects!

📢 Are you an ambitious female alumna of TU Delft with a plan? You can now apply for the Marina van Damme Scholarship 2025! This scholarship enables engineers to further develop themselves and to increase their career opportunities. 🔗 More information: edu.nl/w6juw

Discarded wind turbine blades can be repurposed. Jelle Joustra and students explored using curved sections for a pumptrack. They tested fits, selected pieces, and refined the design. The result? A functional track and valuable insights. 🔗 Read more here: edu.nl/n6muh

🚆 The Dutch railway network relies on 7000+ track switches and crossings—prone to wear and requiring frequent repairs. The XCross research consortium is revolutionising maintenance with 3D scanning tech; enabling precise, data-driven repairs. 🔗edu.nl/hqrgv

Glaciers worldwide are melting fast, driving sea level rise and threatening freshwater supplies. Researchers found that from 2000 to 2023, smaller glaciers (excluding Antarctica & Greenland) lost 5% of their volume—273 billion tonnes of ice. 🔗 edu.nl/uemed

An insightful afternoon in #Rotterdam and #Delft 🇳🇱, where I visited the Porthos project, the RDM Campus, and the Green Village Field Lab. Different types of projects, financed in different ways: to cater for their needs the #EUBudget needs to be more agile and flexible.

During the next few months, the Wadden Sea will be the subject of a project undertaken by researchers from TU Delft and @UniUtrecht. Measuring equipment in the channels and on the mudflats will help explain the interaction of water, sand, and mud. 🔗 edu.nl/3cuuu

About 35% of women feel shame, fear, or pain during vaginal exams, partly due to the speculum. This is why Ariadna Izcara Gual and Tamara Hoveling designed a new speculum, which has benefits for patients, health professionals, and the environment. 🔗edu.nl/hje3b

NRP awards up-and-coming talent within the renovation and transformation sector. TU Delft student Sebastiaan Vork won the first prize with his thesis ‘Dutch Housing Commons, non-speculative housing within and against the housing market’. 🔗edu.nl/wvdtj

To be prepared for flying on hydrogen, ground operations at the airport need to run very smoothly. The models and simulations developed by Alexei Sharpanskykh help shape this future. 👉Read more here: edu.nl/n4fbt

Students in the minor Archineering designed and built a real-size mobile workshop pavilion in @TheGrnVillage. This diverse group from multiple universities transformed innovative ideas into practical, bio-based construction. 🔗 Read more here: edu.nl/hmhdd

Can ice make wind turbines “dance”? Hayo Hendrikse studies how sea ice exerts pressure on turbines, making them swing back & forth—potentially causing damage. His team simulated these forces in an ice tank, but some questions need real winters to answer. 👉edu.nl/3g6mv

Alice Buso set out to explore how deeper connections and creativity could change the way we interact with textiles—and reduce their environmental footprint. 👉 edu.nl/mg9jv

Machine learning is behind autonomous vehicles, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and even extreme weather predictions. But how do these breakthroughs move from research labs to real-world impact?👉edu.nl/7gtp7

New research suggests that the Rhine system has crossed a tipping point. Since the extreme peak flows of the 1990s, the Waal branch has been gradually attracting more water at the Pannerdense Kop bifurcation. Read more here: edu.nl/kmf4x