Projects
Out of Clay, laid in Bond. Building with the Brick in the County of Flanders, 1200-1400 KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis examines the introduction and spread of brick architecture in the county of Flanders in the 13th and 14th centuries. By use of building archaeology of existing buildings, supplemented with archaeological and iconographical information about no longer extant monuments, the thesis lifts medieval brick architecture from the determinist view of brick as a cheap substitute for stone, the common explanation for the rise of ...
Integrated Approach in Management of Coastal Cultural Heritage KU Leuven
Humans have had a long history of interconnectedness with the sea and ocean due to the use of natural resources available in the coastal areas. These interactions have influenced the natural landscape and play a crucial role in the formation of coastal cultural heritage. Coastal cultural heritage, a continuum of land and sea, is an important part of our cultural resources in the coastal areas. Presently, coastal cultural heritage has not been ...
Scientific support for the development of the regional framework for the adoption of a binding social objective within the Flemish land and housing policy. KU Leuven
Unraveling past urbanisation: geoarchaeology brings to light the invisible record of towns in Northwestern Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Interdisciplinary Research Program: Cities and Newcomers: Arrival infrastructure, multi-scalar statehood and professional intermediaries Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Variablerate irrigation and nitrogen fertilization in Potato; engage the spatialvariation - POTENTIAL Soil service of Belgium
The objective of the proposed POTENTIAL project was to increase N and water use efficiency in potato by co-scheduling of N and irrigation water. Special attention is paid to the spatio-temporal variation in water and N deficit in potato fields. To meet this objective innovative sensing solutions were used such as drones, satellites and geophysical soil scanners.
During the POTENTIAL project, between 2017 and 2019, 11 experimental ...
The relationship between the physical and pricing measure in credit markets KU Leuven
During the financial and sovereign crisis, governments protected the financial system from a collapse. The transfer of impaired assets to a bad bank, or a guarantee on these assets, is one of the state aid measures applied by governments to preserve financial stability. The transfer price or guaranteed value is crucial in the assessment of state aid. The real challenge is thus to determine the state-aid-compatible value of impaired assets, ...
Greenways as a New Planning Strategy in the Pearl River Delta, China KU Leuven
The term of greenway is a derivation from greenbelt and parkway, which refer to linear green open spaces that serve for ecological, recreational, cultural, aesthetic, or other purposes compatible with the concept of sustainable land use. In the 1990s, the greenway movement in the world arose as a response, driven by basic human needs, to urbanization. In the diverse contexts, greenways have been an adaptive ...