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This paper explores the methodology inherent to the making of the book "Philippe Vander Maren & Richard Venlet: In Practice". Initially, In Practice are conferences at which architects were invited to unveil and tell the story of their working documents. These short conferences are followed by a conversation with a panel of critics, architects, editors and academics. Recently, a first book was published about (the design process of) a house ...

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The topic of domino effects in the process industry started to receive attention in risk analysis and safety assessment studies over the last two decades. The popularity of the topic is partly due to the occurrence of catastrophic industrial accidents involving domino effects, e.g., the LPG-induced domino effects in Mexico City in 1984, and partly due to legislation (e.g. the so-called “Seveso Directives”), mandating the ...

Dr. M. Sam Mannan is one of the true pioneers in the process safety area, spending almost his entire lifetime in process safety and risk research. He was dedicated to ‘make safety second nature’ and published an impressive body of work. An overview of his research helps understanding the process safety area and provides insight in the legacy of this process safety pioneer. In this paper, 327 publications authored by Dr. Mannan from 1999 to 2019 ...

In the near-coastal regions of Antarctica, a significant fraction of the snow precipitating onto the surface is removed again through sublimation - either directly from the surface or from drifting snow particles. Meteorological observations from an Automatic Weather Station (AWS) near the Belgian research station Princess Elisabeth in Dronning Maud Land, East-Antarctica, are used to study surface and snowdrift sublimation and to assess their ...

Having grown up entirely within the Franco-Belgian comics tradition, I confess that I read Watchmen for the first time in 2009. On page 2, I realized that I would need to look up several historical facts and names in order to make sense – more than twenty years after publication – of the complex background of gloomy Cold War tensions against which the action takes place. (Vainly) desiring to get the full picture and bridge the cross-cultural ...

Collective Infrastructures was the focus of two Design Studios, maib14 and maib24, tutored by María Cecilia Chiappini during the academic year 2016-2017 at the International Master of Science in Architecture, Orientation Urban Cultures and Urban Projects, at the Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels, KU Leuven, in Belgium. Th e challenge was to Rethink the Axis Canal-North Station-Leidts Square, in Brussels, Belgium. Th e ...