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Safety risk management in University laboratories

Risk management has become an essential element in the functioning of modern society. Correct risk identification and assessment are undoubtedly crucial to improving overall safety; nevertheless, often, it is accompanied by the wrong selection of correctiv ...

EPFL2023

Use of space analog missions as an educational tool in primary schools

Volker Gass

Space exploration is a field that inspires a wide range of people, from children to university students, including the general public. With a return to the Moon planned for 2024 and the rapid expansion of the private industry, educating the next generation ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Le dehors de toute fête : une sociologie urbaine de la sécurité au Montreux Jazz Festival

Lucien Jean Delley

This thesis is the result of four years of investigation carried out as « security coordinator » of the Monteux Jazz Festival. From this operational commitment, I sought to understand : how the festival is integrated into the city ; what affects the safety ...

EPFL2022

Safety Decision-Making in Academia

Thierry Meyer, Anastasia Jung

This paper illustrates the challenges of safety management in Academia, which are difficult to overcome using conventional methods of risk management. The positive aspects and disadvantages of the risk management tools specifically designed for the laborat ...

Springer2020

Integrative decision-making strategy for fluvial neighborhoods in transition

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

The changing relationships between cities and their waters over the centuries lead today – after a clear sidelining of rivers in the city – to question their potential for building new interactions. Current densification objectives of the existing built fa ...

2020

Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation Integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy

Myrna Fatima Flores Pineda

This paper discusses Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy. It proposes a "Digital Lean Transformation Framework" where its five management pillars - (Digital) Strategic Management, Processes (Re-)Engin ...

IEEE2019

EaRL: Toolbox for Earthquake Risk and Loss Assessment of Building Assets

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Seong-Hoon Hwang

Infrastructure (asset) risk management is essential for a resilient environment. Several industries are concerned to improve their building asset preparedness subject to seismic hazard. To this end, the development of software tools that quantify and asses ...

2018

Joint applicability test of software for laboratory assessment and risk analysis

Thierry Meyer, David Nicolas Plüss

Most of the available risk management methods are not directly applicable to academic research laboratories. One solution to systematically perform risk analyses in this environment is the Laboratory Assessment and Risk Analysis (LARA) method. This method ...

Elsevier2016

The Vanishing Hand: Efficient Market Design for Future Power Systems

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Transition to low-carbon power systems is in progress, fuelled by policy-driven accelerated deployment of new renewable electricity generation technologies (wind and solar), smart electrification, prosumerisation and digitisation. Largely occurring against ...

2016

Enhancement and application of a risk assessment technique for research and teaching laboratories

David Nicolas Plüss

Risk management became an important element of the modern society. Being aware of risks and take appropriate actions to handle them are crucial elements in most industries, especially the ones for which the consequences of undesired events reach disastrous ...

EPFL2015

Developing structural, high-heat flux and plasma facing materials for a near-term DEMO fusion power plant: The EU assessment

Minh Quang Tran

The findings of the EU 'Materials Assessment Group' (MAG), within the 2012 EU Fusion Roadmap exercise, are discussed. MAG analysed the technological readiness of structural, plasma facing and high heat flux materials for a DEMO concept to be constructed in ...

Elsevier2014

Process Bifurcation and the Digital Chain in Architecture

Russell Alexander Loveridge

This thesis investigates the impact of digital technology on the methods of design and production in architecture. Through research of history, theory, technology, and methods, the work determines whether the current use of new technologies should be consi ...

EPFL2012

Expect the Unexpected : An Exploratory Study on the Conditions and Factors Driving the Resilience of Infrastructure Projects

Georgeta Geambasu

This study originates from the recognition that project management research is replete with normative theories on what need projects to be successful. However, it has performed worse with respect to assisting the understanding of how and why similar projec ...

EPFL2011

Assessment of the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic set

Thomas Maeder, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, René Chavan, Matthieu Toussaint, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Gilbert Tonetti, Albert Perez, Francisco Sanchez, Jérôme Guterl

The ITER high-frequency (HF) magnetic diagnostic system has to provide essential measurements of MHD instabilities with vertical bar delta B-MEAS/B-POL vertical bar similar to 10(-4) (similar to 1 G) for frequencies up to 2 MHz to resolve toroidal mode num ...

Elsevier2011

Assessment of the ITER High-Frequency Magnetic Diagnostic Set

Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Matthieu Toussaint, Gilbert Tonetti, Thomas Maeder, Albert Perez, Francisco Sanchez, Jérôme Guterl

The ITER high-frequency (HF) magnetic diagnostic system has to provide essential measurements of MHD instabilities with |deltaBmeas/BPOL|~1e-4 (~1G) for frequencies up to 2MHz to resolve toroidal mode numbers (n) in the range |n|=10 to |n|=50. A review of ...

2011

Revisiting the Edge, Ten Years On

Valérie Chavez, Paul Embrechts

When these lines are written, it is January 21, 2008, a further `Black Monday' on the international markets. Stock indices have fallen between 5 and 10%. Which statistical tools help in describing such events and may help in understanding the consequences? ...

2010

Le processus de projet dans la reconstruction urbaine suite à une catastrophe

Julien Grisel

This study analyzes three project process for the reconstruction of urban areas destroyed by natural disaster or armed conflict: the village of Gondo in Switzerland, partially destroyed by a landslide, has been refurbished following an architectural compet ...

EPFL2010

Challenges in achieving European-wide methodologies for rock fall hazard mapping

Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese

European-wide standard methodologies for rock fall hazard assessment and mapping would constitute a very important step towards more transparent and reproducible procedures used for these purposes, and would provide as well a higher uniformity in land use ...

CERG Editions2010