All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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Agriculture and agricultural policy between security of supply and ecological sustainability: convictions, interests and arguments
This study is based on the observation that discussions about agriculture and the "right" agricultural policy in Switzerland are highly polarised. Different economic and political interests alone are not enough to understand the intensity of an often emotional debate. There are several approaches to explaining why ...
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Life Cycle Assessment of Wind Power
Current life cycle assessments are an essential basis for a scientific and comprehensive comparison of the environmental impact of various power generation technologies. The low environmental impact (e. g. carbon footprint per kWh) is an important argument for the expansion of wind energy in Switzerland. However, ...
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Opening up the market as a way to a sustainable Swiss agriculture and food industry - opportunities, challenges and solutions
Swiss food industry and agriculture have developed under the conditions of enhanced protection against competition and direct support for agricultural production. Over the past 20 years, agricultural policy instruments have been restructured, but this should not obscure the fact that agriculture is still clearly ...
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Process Intensification of anaerobic digestion of manure
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Multi-Asset Investment Process using Bayes Ensembles of Trading Models
Since 2009, low interest rates and asset purchases by central banks are severely distorting investment opportunities and trends in financial markets. The performance of active investment strategies decreased substantially since then. This project aims to provide an investment process that finds the optimal ...
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Environmental Construction Monitoring Rhaetian Railway
The Rhaetian Railway (RhB) has to repair the Foura d'Valorga viaduct near Ardez, which was built in 1911 and put into operation in 1913. The application was made for the use of an environmental construction supervisor. On the one hand, the environmental construction supervision aims to ensure that the legal ...
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Development of tools to optimize large photovoltaic installations with complex geometries including direct reflexions of various surfaces like e.g. snow and water.
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COST Action – Active and intelligent fibre-based packaging - innovation and market introduction
Research and development of new fibre-based packaging materials with active and intelligent features have shown huge potential to optimise the supply chain, and increase the shelf-life of foodstuff and enhance consumer consciousness of food utilisation. Very few of the potential solutions have, however, been able to ...
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Integration of FM Know-how and 3D Laser Scanning in BIM
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Sustainability Check in a tourism resort, Corsica
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Applying Life Cycle Assessment for the mitigation of environmental impacts South African agrifood products
The project contributed to the important global question of how to reduce environmental impacts from food production, with a focus on South African food value chains. The Swiss and South African project team joined forces to ensure basic data collection for South African maize, dairy and fruit production, life cycle ...
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BCM, Dirty Bomb decon after CBRN incident
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) within a society and Business Continuity Management (BCM) within a company are only possible if its known how to act in extraordinary situations. Today where everything is possible, where a lorry can have used as a deadly weapon it is time to understand more about dirty bombs with ...
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Comparison of the suitability of soil and sand filters for the treatment of run-off water of heavily used roads.
Natural road runoff treatment facilities work with different substrates. These can be sand or soil filters. This project investigates the flow, filtration and retention behaviour for contaminants of these two substrates.
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Development process Future Strategy Muota Valley Region, Switzerland
Through the two regional development projects Regio Plus "Üses Muotital" 2005 to 2009 and "Netzwerk Muotatal" 2010 to 2012 within the framework of the New Regional Policy (NRP), increased regional cooperation across the three municipalities of Illgau, Morschach and Muotathal has been achieved over the last eight ...
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KJM – KleenlineJonmaster
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Nanoporous Hybrid Optical Fiber Platform
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ProPAT – Robust and affordable process control technologies for improving standards and optimising industrial operations
The Process Industries require a high degree of automation, monitoring, and advanced simulation and control for their often complex manufacturing processes and operations. Emphasis is on continuous or batch production, mixing, reaction and separation of materials of higher value. Indeed, increased globalisation ...
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Sustainable cultivation of microalgae for energy production
The Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research - Biomass for Swiss Energy Future (SCCER BIOSWEET) is a consortium of 15 Partners from acht Academic Institutions and more than 50 Cooperation Partners from private or public sector organizations. They focus on the engineering and implementation of biochemical and ...
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Phototrophic cultivation of microalgae on a pilot-scale
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City Farming – Urban Agriculture in Swiss Cities.
Agriculture in Switzerland is confronted with challenges concerning economic efficiency, food sovereignty, ecology and biodiversity. Furthermore agriculture should contribute to decentralized settlement of Switzerland. The project City Farming wants to figure out whether it is possible to uncouple these tasks and ...
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Global Greenhouse Impact Model
The carbon footprint of foodstuffs is a key factor for sustainable development of the food sector. One of the major factors contributing to the carbon footprint of foodstuffs is the heating of greenhouses. The required quantity of heating is highly variable depending on production season and local climatic ...
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Long-term stability of embedded ZeoFRET composites
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ZHAW Agri-food Database
The Agrifood database is collection of life cycle inventory data for agricultural and food products. This database can be used to analyse the environmental impacts of processes in the agricultural and food value chain and to determine the corresponding environmental hotspots. The Agrifood database includes life ...
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Biogas from Animal Byproducts
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DROPSA – Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens
The DROPSA consortium will create new knowledge and understanding of the damage and losses of fruit crops resulting from pests and pathogens, with a specific focus on the new and emerging threats due to Drosophila suzukii and quarantine pathogens Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas fragariae and X. arboricola. The ...