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April 11, 2026

The Refurbishment of Channel 4

In this video, Peter van de Rotten describes in detail the refurbishment of a 1990s high-tech glass facade at Channel 4's headquarters in London. The original design used a double-curved cable net with point-fixed suspended glass panels. Over time serious safety issues emerged, namely damaged glass and fixings displaced by up to 50mm which threatened sudden energy release and possible collapse. To safely disassemble the facade, the team introduced a third load path, supporting each glass panel from the top steel crown, and designed special clamps to secure cable fixings. The disassembly was carried out in a carefully controlled sequence to safely remove and replace the different elements and components. Key challenges included extremely tight tolerances (down to 20 micrometers), mixing old and new materials, and avoiding stress around glass holes. The team chose to preserve the original facade shape to prevent unpredictable behavior. The video was produced by the Open GLASSroom project. Special thanks to Peter van de Rotten for contributing to the Open GLASSroom OER collection. The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2022-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000089750. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.

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Peter van de Rotten

October 26, 2025

Comparative Analysis of the Glass Plate Design

In this video, Ivana Rakić presents a comparative analysis of the economic impact of designing glass elements according to different standards, focusing on the new European draft standard FprEN 19100-1(2,3):2023, the existing EN 16612:2019, and the American ASTM E1300-16. The study examines common double-glazed insulating units under wind load, using the minimal required glass thickness for loadbearing resistance as the key comparison criterion. The results indicate that for annealed glass, all three standards yield similar economic outcomes. However, for heat-treated glass like heat-strengthened and thermally toughened glass, the new FprEN 19100 standard leads to a lower capacity utilisation factor, making it the most economical design choice, while the ASTM standard is the least economical. The analysis concludes that the choice of standard significantly influences design economy and highlights the need for further research incorporating factors like safety and long-term performance for a more comprehensive understanding. The video was produced by the Open GLASSroom project. Special thanks to Ivana Rakić and Nebojša Buljan for contributing to the Open GLASSroom OER collection. The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2022-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000089750. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.

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Ivana Rakić, Nebojša Buljan

June 6, 2025

How To Write A Quantitative Research Paper

So, you need to write a ‘quantitative’ research paper, and you want to know: what is the correct way of writing such a paper? The answer is, unfortunately: it depends … For one, there is no universally accepted, ‘correct’ way of writing any paper in the social sciences in general. Moreover, even just within the so-called ‘quantitative’ research tradition specifically, there exist different viewpoints on what makes for a good research paper. To muddy things up even further, how to write a paper will also depend on the specific research question(s) that it addresses. Hence, even the same scientist might opt for varying approaches in different papers. Having said that, it is possible to identify some common rules and practices that are often followed, as well as a number of practices that should generally be avoided. Based on these common rules and practices, this document is meant to help you on your way with writing a ‘quantitative’ research paper by offering a number of tips, tricks and rules-of-thumb. None of these rules and practices are set in stone, and you (or your teacher/supervisor) may have excellent arguments to deviate from them. However, in general, following them will greatly increase the quality of your paper.

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Alex Lehr, Roderick Sluiter

October 15, 2024

The Delft Method for System Dynamics - Book

The Delft Method for System Dynamics is a proven method of learning basic System Dynamics (SD). The method focusses on learning by doing: first you try to make an exercise, and if you do not understand something or do not know something, then you can look it up in the theory part of the book. The book contains theory exercises on topics like causal loop diagramming, delays, and how to motivate why SD is appropriate. The book also contains modelling exercises that show students how to build low to medium complexity models, and how to use these quantitative models for scenario or policy analysis. The theory chapters cover all phases of the modelling cycle: problem articulation, conceptualisation, formulation, evaluation (including validation and scenario analysis), and policy analysis. This book is intended for students and educators in large or small System Dynamics courses, and for motivated students that want to learn SD in their own pace.

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Willem Auping, Floortje d’Hont, Merla Kubli, Patrick Steinmann, Jill Slinger, Floris van der Heijde, Erik Pruyt, Els van Daalen, Wil Thissen

October 9, 2024

Resilience of socio-technical-environmental systems

Nazli Aydin introduces an open educational resource designed to teach students the conceptual differences between risk, resilience, and robustness.

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Nazli Aydin

2024

Teaching Open Science Principles and Practices to Research Students [february 2024]

This workshop has the following topics: What is open science, and why it is important Live overview of using OSF.io Approaches to teaching research students open science practices

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Jeff Buckley

December 6, 2023

Building interactive web apps with the R package shiny

Lecture about app development using the programming language R. Part of the Utrecht University research master course 'Markup Languages and Reproducible Programming in Statistics'. Both the interactive slides, as well as a static pdf version are shared.

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Hanne Oberman

August 23, 2023

Lecture: Security and robustness

Gain a general overview of the main security problems of machine learning Understanding the main confidentiality, integrity, and availability issues of machine learning Distinguishing evasion, poisoning and backdoors attacks Understanding clean-label poisoning attacks Obtain the the intuition of adversarial examples and its practical impact through real-life examples Demonstrating the availability attacks by artificially constructed sponge examples Understanding the threat of explainability evasion Understanding the trade-off between robustness and model quality Learn the principles of AI (robustness) auditing

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HCAIM Consortium

August 23, 2023

Practical: Enhancing ML security and robustness

Gain practical skills to mitigate integrity problems of machine learning Design robust machine learning models Mitigate evasion (adversarial examples) Mitigate backdoors (poisoning) Evaluate the trade-off between robustness and model accuracy

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HCAIM Consortium

August 23, 2023

Practical: Apply auditing frameworks

Gain practical skills how to audit the robustness of machine learning models How to implement evasion (adversarial examples) and poisoning/backdoor attacks Evaluate the model degradation due to these attacks

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HCAIM Consortium