Projects
Construction Digital Twins for automated digital construction site monitoring KU Leuven
The construction industry must lower failure costs that are caused by delays and construction errors. To this end, the progress and quality of construction sites must be systematically and digitally monitored and the designs updated to as-built conditions.
The objective of this project is to fulfil the above needs by conceiving construction digital twins –a novel BIM that models the life-cycle of the construction’s execution phase ...
Circularity, Construction, and the City: embedding the circular construction economy in urban transitions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Promotor: David Bassens
Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History Ghent University
Since 1985, Construction History is internationally recognized as a distinct field within history, situated on the interface between the history of engineering and the history of architecture. Antoine Picon, historian of architecture and technology, argued in 2006 that construction history “offers a unique opportunity to rethink the relations between technology and culture." This proposal starts from the observation that this opportunity has ...
Investigation of the construction of integrating world views Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(1) The construction of a model of the world: research ...
The development of the absolute construction in English: the interaction between internal and external factors of change. KU Leuven
This PhD aims to provide a comprehensive, corpus-based study of the development of the absolute construction (AC) in English, from its earliest attested instances in Old English up to the present. Present-day English (PDE) examples are '"That's better," he said, his spirits raising a little.' and 'With the teacher refusing to comply, Barry took the matter to the dean'. The specific objectives/research questions guiding this ...
The duty to cooperate in construction projects KU Leuven
Due to the inherent complexity of a construction project (long execution time, multi-party, complex object of the contract and uncertainty of environmental factors), cooperation between all construction actors is necessary to successfully complete the construction project. Moreover societal requirements that construction projects must meet are increasingly higher and more ambitious. Sustainability and ecological challenges require ...
Connections between semantically or formally similar Dutch auxiliary constructions: the nature of horizontal links and their influence on grammar Ghent University
This project is aimed at the investigation of horizontal links in two clusters of constructions featuring the auxiliarized Dutch verbs komen ‘to come’ and krijgen ‘to get, receive’. Horizontal links, i.e. links between constructions which are not in a mother-daughter relation, constitute a topical issue in present-day construction grammar, but their nature and effects, as well as their interplay with other kinds of links that potentially ...
Multi-agent cooperative control of two robots with complementary capabilities for heavy construction tasks Vrije Universiteit Brussel
How to Write Historical Marvels: The Construction and Authentication of History in Ancient Paradoxography KU Leuven
The ancient Greeks and Romans were deeply interested in the “marvelous”. In the Hellenistic period, such interest was channeled into a specific branch of literature exclusively devoted to marvels, the so-called paradoxography. Works belonging to this tradition consist of collections of strange-but-(supposedly-)true phenomena mostly drawn from earlier works of natural science or historiography.
Scholars of historiography have ...