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    • Untangling the Concepts of Value and Values 

      Drevland, Frode Olav; Lohne, Jardar (Chapter, 2023)
      The concept of value is widely used in lean construction (LC) literature, but researchers and practitioners lack a common understanding of the term. This is partially due to confusion between value (singular) and values ...

    • Up-Front Assessment and Quality Assurance of Major Investment Projects 

      Magnussen, Ole Morten (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2010:114, Doctoral thesis, 2010)
      The work reported in this thesis comprises an exploration of the up-front assessment and quality assurance of major investment projects. It was conducted by investigating a sequence of projects planned and executed under ...

    • Up-Front Governance of Major Public Investment Projects 

      Volden, Gro Holst (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:236, Doctoral thesis, 2019)
      Traditionally, project success has been interpreted in a narrow, operational sense, concerning the question of How to implement the project. More recently, the need to take a wider tactical and strategic view has been ...

    • Updated OCTAS geoid in the northern North Atlantic - OCTAS07 

      Omang, Ove Christian Dahl; Hunegnaw, Addisu; Solheim, Dag; Lysaker, Dagny; Ghazavi, Kourosh; Nahavandchi, Hossein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)
      A new gravimetric geoid (OCTAS07v2) is generated using Stokes’ formula with gravity data as input. As local gravity data, a combination of land gravity data, new and old airborne gravity data, and adjusted marine gravity ...

    • Upgrading of a Typical Norwegian Existing Wooden House According to the EnerPHit Standard 

      Hrynyszyn, Bozena Dorota; Felius, Laurina Cornelia (Chapter, 2019)
      The building sector has a key role to play in implementing the EU energy efficiency objectives. Around 40% of the energy consumption and a third of CO2 emissions comes from buildings. With the adoption of Nearly Zero Energy ...

    • Upgrading of Hydropower Plants to Pumped Storage Plants: Tunnel System Hydraulics 

      Pitorac, Livia Ioana (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:352, Doctoral thesis, 2021)
      Energy storage is needed to enable the transition from fossil to renewable electrical energy sources. As wind and solar power are unregulated and volatile, energy storage is necessary. Pumped hydro can deliver both short- ...

    • Upgrading of Roskrepp hydropower plant to a pumped storage plant: Necessary reconstruction of the surge tank. 

      Leroquais, Anne (Master thesis, 2018)
      The scope of this thesis is to build a 1D numerical model of a hydraulic powerplant, transform it to simulate the upgrade of the powerplant into a pumped storage system, establish the issues that would emerge from it in ...

    • Upgrading the Smartness of Retrofitting Packages Towards Energy-Efficient Residential Buildings in Cold Climate Countries: Two Case Studies 

      Felius, Laurina C; Hamdy, Mohamed; Dessen, Fredrik; Hrynyszyn, Bozena Dorota (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings by implementing building automation control strategies (BACS) besides building envelope and energy system retrofitting has been recommended by the Energy Performance ...

    • Uproduktiv tid i anleggsprosjekter: Et spørsmål om planlegging og oppfølging 

      Baardseth, Trond (Master thesis, 2009)

    • Upstream-Cylinder and Downstream-Cylinder Influence on the Hydrodynamics of a Four-Cylinder Group 

      Kamath, Arun; Bihs, Hans; Alagan Chella, Mayilvahanan; Arntsen, Øivind Asgeir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The wave interaction at low Keulegan-Carpenter numbers with a group of four large cylinders arranged in the form of a square with one diagonal along the direction of wave propagation is studied with a focus on the ...

    • Urban drainage models for green areas: Structural differences and their effects on simulated runoff 

      Broekhuizen, Ico; Muthanna, Tone Merete; Leonhardt, Gunther; Viklander, Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Mathematical stormwater models are often used as tools for planning and analysing urban drainage systems. However, the inherent uncertainties of the models must be properly understood in order to make optimal use of them. ...

    • Urban Facilities Management in Smart Cities 

      Lindkvist, Carmel Margaret; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka; Collins, Dave; Bjørberg, Svein; Haugen, Tore (Book, 2019)
      Facilities managers have the skills to work within a top down strategic level and link to a bottom-up operational levelwithin an organization. This type of approach to managing services and facilities is lacking within a ...

    • Urban Facility Management 

      Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka; Lindkvist, Carmel Margaret (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper aims to illustrate where facility management (FM) is having an impact on the urban environment and what other work needs to be done to easier facilitate achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). ...

    • Urban freight transport data - Identification of potential and implications of collection and analysis of carrier data 

      Johanne Lægran (Master thesis, 2021)
      Prognoser peker på stor vekst i godstransporten. Trender som urbanisering, økt netthandel og hjemlevering fører til mer kamp om plassen i byene og endring i godstransporten og varestrømmene. Samtidig skal veksten i ...

    • Urban heritage and the four pillars of sustainability: Urban-scale facility management in the World Heritage sites 

      Prabowo, Bintang Noor; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The discussion addressing sustainability issues of the World Heritage (WH) as cultural sites that hold outstanding universal values (OUV) has started to surface since the adoption of the “Strategic Action Plan for the ...

    • Urban heritage facility management: A scoping review 

      Prabowo, Bintang Noor; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka; Lohne, Jardar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This review examines current discussions from the cross-section study between urban heritage conservation and urban facility management fields in the academic literature from 2011–2020. The purpose is to identify the gaps ...

    • Urban hydroinformatics: Past, present and future 

      Makropoulos, Christos; Savić, Dragan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Hydroinformatics, as an interdisciplinary domain that blurs boundaries between water science, data science and computer science, is constantly evolving and reinventing itself. At the heart of this evolution, lies a continuous ...

    • Urban water system metabolism assessment using WaterMet2 model 

      Behzadian, Kourosh; Kapelan, Zoran; Govindarajan, Venkatesh; Brattebø, Helge; Sægrov, Sveinung; Rozos, Envangelos; Makropoulos, Christos; Ugarelli, Rita Maria; Milina, Jadranka; Hem, Lars J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      This paper presents a new “WaterMet2” model for integrated modelling of an urban water system (UWS). The model is able to quantify the principal water flows and other main fluxes in the UWS. The UWS in WaterMet2 is ...

    • Usability of Extrapolation Methods of Wind Speed Profiles in the Arctic 

      Lambert, Kyle (Master thesis, 2023)
      Renewable energy is ever increasing in the modern energy grid with a growing portion from wind. Arctic communities are still largely dependent on fossil fuels, with up to 79% entirely dependent on diesel. Therein lies irony ...

    • Usage of capillary wicks for enhancement of detention-based green-roof solutions 

      Kallings, Anders (Master thesis, 2023)
      For å håndtere endrede nedbørsmønstre forårsaket av klimaendringer og begrensninger som byer pålegger for mengden av overvann som kan slippes ut i avløpssystemene, utvikles det nye innovasjoner for å forbedre ytelsen til ...