All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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Offices, Change & Health
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Green Spaces for the Second Half of Life
In urban planning today, the concept of urban densification prevails, though often at the cost of urban green spaces, especially in housing areas. At the same time, in light of demographic and societal changes and an ageing population, green spaces in the immediate living environment are becoming crucially important ...
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Environmental Impact vertical axis wind turbine
The study investigates a novel wind turbine (vertical axis technology) with regard to its environmental Impact: Shadow cast Noise Impact Impact Flora & Fauna Landscape influence The results may be used to assess a building application for a pilot plant. During the subsequent pilot operation of the plant, the ...
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CTI Gotthard water
The Basis 57 sustainable water use SA wants to use the temperated water from the neat basis tunnel for production of local fish. Therefore, a research facility will be buildt for a production of burbot and pike perch. The goal is to test the water quality for fish production and to develop production standards for ...
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Development of an IT supported assessment tool and a corresponding introduction manual for the relevant Facility Management process applications in hospitals on the basis of an adaptive reference model
The introduction of the diagnosis-related groups/Swiss DRG causes amongst other things a greater demand for transparency, including in non-medical support services [FM] in hospitals. In order to meet this, it is necessary to have a systematic way of measuring and comparing services in order to come up with specific ...
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Life cycle assessment of Swiss wine from conventional and organic farming
The consumption of food and beverages causes more than a quarter of an average person’s environmental impact in Switzerland. Apart from meat, fish and dairy products, beverage and semiluxury food – especially spirits and coffee – contribute to a significant share. Over the entire life cycle of wine – from the ...
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PV2050: Sustainability, market deployment and interaction to the grid – the impacts of advanced PV solutions
The opportunities for photovoltaic (PV) solar energy conversion to support the requested transition for the realization of the Energy Strategy 2050 are widely recognized. However, if PV is to make a significant contribution to satisfy global energy requirements, issues of sustainability need to be addressed with ...
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Evaluation of the suitability of Bioplastics for anaerobic digestion and composting
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LCA of peat, alternative substrates and growing media
Due to its soil improving properties peat is regarded as an ideal component of growing media. However, peat cutting has a high environmental impact. In Switzerland, the extraction of peat is prohibited since 1987, but 130’000 tons of peat are imported every year. To reduce peat consumption, alternative substrates ...
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Renewable Methene for Transport and Mobility
Power to gas allows using excess renewable electricity to produce Hydrogen and to transform it to renewable methane. Methane can be used to drive natural gas vehicles. The processes described use building blocks made of existing technologies, link the grids for electricity and natural gas and make large existing ...
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Heavy Metals in Biowaste in Switzerland
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Monitoring Simme and Kander
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Mobile, on-the-spot Breakfast Catering
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Emission Potential of liquid Digestate
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Microbial hydrolysis of unsorted municipal solid waste
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Organis Wastes in the Swiss Food Industry
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CONSUS
The Institute for Environment and Natural Resources (IUNR) has developed a tool for the efficiently and strategically planning of production and procurement in the agricultural market. It assesses the suitability of sites worldwide for specific agricultural products on the basis of geographic information on climate ...
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COST Action – Sustainable production of high quality cherries for the European market
The COST Action aims at creating a dynamic network of scientists and other professionals conducting research to improve sweet or sour cherry production in Europe, the main cherry producer. Cherries are highly appreciated fruits for their taste and nutritional properties. Their production is economically important ...
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Vegetation Mapping Ski Area Corvatsch
Various facilities in the Corvatsch ski area are to be modernised or replaced. Plans are currently underway for two ski lifts. The existing ski lifts are to be replaced by chair lifts.. In addition, a slope is to be artificially snowed, for which a pipe trench must be built along the slope. The previously defined ...
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Active labels
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Comprehensive Sales Forecasting for Supply Chain Optimization in Food Industry
The main objective of the project was a significant improvement of sales forecasting algorithms with an application focus on food industry and retail, where food waste and stock-out situations are challenging for the planning process. The main product of the project is an intelligent planning software, whose ...
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Scenario Visualization in Spatial Planning II
Scenarios of future periurban landscape development were modelled within the WSL research program "Spatial Requirements of Man and Nature" (Price et al., 2015). The spatial representation of the scenarios corresponds to the field-based conceptual data model, storing single values in continuous raster data ...
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Chart of accounts, cost center structures and cost unit accounting for non-medical support services in hosptials (KoKoS)
Development of an encompassing chart of accounts for non-medical support services in hospitals including a corresponding cost center structure and cost unit accounting as a basis for a correct allocation of cost and thus as basis for tools for benchmarking and strategy.
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Cooperational platform for urban logictis
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Geography of Food Summer School & E-learning Course
The current food system is not able to produce food to nourish the people in a sustainable way. Less environmental impact, resource use efficiency, maintaining soil fertility, closing of nutrient cycles, stable harvests, improved distribution, avoiding food losses/food waste, fair business models and food ...