Architectural Competitions: Creating Dialogues and Promoting Excellence?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan-Uddin Khan
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Architectural Competitions ◽  
Editorial Essay

Abstract Architectural competitions have become a major way of commissioning buildings, especially for corporate and government structures. They belong to a practice that dates back to ancient Greece. This editorial essay ponders some of the critical issues raised by the two major types ‐ project competitions and ideas competitions ‐ through representative case studies of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and the recent competition for master plan and buildings for the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science. The notions discussed are based on the author's personal experiences over four decades, and the roles played by the major players involved in the process ‐ the client or sponsor, the competition organizers, the designers/architects, and the architectural juries. The article ends with a consideration of why architectural competitions are valuable in the lessons they offer and the discourses they raise, and their significance for architects and architecture more broadly.

scholarly journals Critical Issues and Opportunities for Producing Biomethane in Italy

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2431
Author(s):  
Roberto Murano ◽  
Natascia Maisano ◽  
Roberta Selvaggi ◽  
Gioacchino Pappalardo ◽  
Biagio Pecorino
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Biofuel Production ◽  
Political Incentives ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Biogas Plants ◽  
High Level ◽  
By Products ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Nowadays, most Italian biogas produces electricity even though recent political incentives are promoting biomethane from biogas by “upgrading” it. The aim of this paper is to focus on the regulatory framework for producing biomethane from new or already-existent anaerobic digestion plants. The complexity and lack of knowledge of the regulations on biofuel production and of anaerobic digested biomethane from waste and by-products create difficulties of both interpretation and application. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to analyze the regulations for producing biomethane, underline the critical issues and opportunities, and evaluate whether an electrical plant built in the last 10 years in Italy can really be converted to a biomethane plant, thereby lengthening its lifespan. Three case studies were considered to look more closely into applying Italian biomethane incentives and to simulate the types of incentivization in agriculture with examples based on certain fuel types typical of a standard biomethane plant of 500 standard cubic meter per hour. All the considered cases put in evidence that biomethane is a further opportunity for development with a high level of efficiency for all biogas producers, especially for many biogas plants whose incentivization period is about to finish.

scholarly journals The control of small and medium sized public wastewater treatment plants in the Veneto region (North Italy): general situation, critical issues and case studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-779
Author(s):  
M. Ostoich ◽  
F. Serena ◽  
A. Pozzobon ◽  
L. Tomiato
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Waste Water Treatment ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Critical Parameters ◽  
Organic Load ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Veneto Region ◽  
Critical Issues

Abstract Water bodies' quality objectives are defined in accordance with the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive 91/271/EEC and the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC. For regulation and control of small-sized waste-water treatment plants (WWTPs), responsibility is delegated in Italy to Regional Authorities that fix specific regulations (Water Protection Plan WPP included in the River Basin Management Plan RBMP) in collaboration with the District Authorities. Small (<2,000 population equivalent – PE) and medium sized (2,000–10,000 PE) WWTPs in the Veneto Region (North Italy) represent about 10% of the total organic load (Imhoff systems included). This also comprises some industrial discharges. Due to the urban sprawl, plants are spread over the regional territory. In the Veneto Region, data from the official census reveals there are n. 248 plants under 2,000 PE and 135 plants in 2,000–10,000 range while the total number of authorized plants is 488 for a total potentiality of 9,141,572 PE. Data from institutional controls performed by the Veneto Regional Environmental Agency (ARPAV) on WWTPs has been recovered for all the WWTPs with up to 10,000 PE in the provinces of Venice, Treviso and Vicenza (for a total of 306,118 PE and for a total of 164 plants) in the period 2008–2015 and elaborated to assess critical parameters and plants. The general situation, critical issues and case studies have been presented and discussed. Organic load, nutrients and Escherichia coli are the most critical parameters considering the regional WPP.

Geoconservation strategies framework in Brazil: Current status from the analysis of representative case studies

2022 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 194-207
Author(s):  
Maria da Glória Garcia ◽  
Marcos Antônio Leite do Nascimento ◽  
Kátia Leite Mansur ◽  
Ricardo Galeno Fraga de Araújo Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
Brazil Current ◽  
Geoconservation Strategies

Wind Parks Design, Including Representative Case Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitris Al. Katsaprakakis ◽  
Dimitris G. Christakis
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Representative Case

International advocacy: Case studies and lessons learnt

2019 ◽  
pp. 193-204
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Grisold ◽  
Anna Klicpera ◽  
Thomas Grisold
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Voice

This chapter takes an international perspective on advocacy. It focuses on the question of how international advocacy projects can look like and what makes them successful. In doing so, we turn to the practical and applied sides of advocacy. Advocacy activities aim at taking the voice of patients to inform, protect, and support them. In the first part of this chapter, we will present successful cases of advocacy activities in neurology. In the second part, we will reflect on personal experiences where advocacy activities were or should have been implemented. Reflecting on these cases, we present some lessons learnt that advocates may want to consider when they plan and implement international advocacy activities.

1. The History of the Practice of Strategy from Antiquity to Napoleon

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Heuser
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
European History ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Philip Ii ◽  
Napoleon Bonaparte ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medieval Warfare ◽  
Philip Ii Of Spain

This chapter traces the history of the practice of strategy from Antiquity to Napoleon Bonaparte. It first considers various definitions of strategy before discussing episodes of European history since Antiquity for which historians claim to have found evidence of the practice of strategy. While focusing only on Europe, the chapter covers case studies over nearly 2,500 years, ranging from the wars of Ancient Greece, of the Romans to medieval warfare, the warfare of Philip II of Spain, Louis XIV of France, Frederick II of Prussia, the French Revolutionaries, and Napoleon. It also considers two sets of incremental changes that ultimately led to the transformation of warfare and of strategy: the growth, centralization, and diversifiation of the structure of European states; and technological innovation.

scholarly journals Watching over or Working with? Understanding Social Work Innovation in Response to Extra-Familial Harm

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Elizabeth Wroe ◽  
Jenny Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
And Control ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Public Bodies

This paper critically reflects on the role of surveillance and trusted relationships in social work in England and Wales. It explores the characteristics of relationships of trust and relationships of surveillance and asks how these approaches apply to emerging policy and practices responses to extra-familial forms of harm (EFH). Five bodies of research that explore safeguarding responses across a range of public bodies are drawn on to present an analytical framework that explores elements of safeguarding responses, constituting relationships of trust or relationships of surveillance and control. This analytic framework is applied to two case studies, each of which detail a recent practice innovation in response to EFH studied by the authors, as part of a larger body of work under the Contextual Safeguarding programme. The application of this framework signals a number of critical issues related to the focus/rationale, methods and impact of interventions into EFH that should be considered in future work to address EFH, to ensure young people’s rights to privacy and participation are upheld.

Reflexivity and the insider/outsider discourse in indigenous research: my personal experiences

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 218-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abukari Kwame
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Global Flows ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Indigenous Research Methodology

This article is a contribution to the ongoing discussions on who should conduct indigenous research and problematizes the notion of insider/outsider discourse in indigenous research. Drawing on my personal experiences in the form of case studies, I argue that self-locating in indigenous research is complex given that researcher self-positioning is not normally done by the researcher but through a process of negotiation with the participants. I argue that insofar as indigenous peoples, communities and problems are not islands onto themselves, immune to the current global flows, processes and barriers, indigenous research cannot be reserved only for indigenous scholars and peoples. Instead, I propose a reflexive researching model as a research framework which should be incorporated into an indigenous research methodology which both indigenous and allied non-indigenous researchers could draw upon. This demands a reflexive practice that is guided by the philosophical underpinnings of the indigenous research paradigm.

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