Offshore Oil&Gas facilities are attractive targets of intentional malicious attacks (security attacks) that may trigger cascading events (e.g., the release and dispersion hazardous material and/or energy, fires, explosions) with consequences on people, environment, assets. The severity these is potentially similar to those arising from major accident scenarios originated by conventional safety-...

Work equipment and installations with a high risk for health and safety of employees should be paid a special attention. The German Product Safety Act, which is aimed to manufacturers or distributors in order to protect consumers, maintains a conclusive catalogue of these so-called "installations in need of monitoring" fixing the work equipment and installations for which such special inspectio...

Mobile devices and situated installations have differing inherent advantages and limitations; coupling – the physical and computational combination – of personal mobile devices with situated installations allows designers to overcome these disadvantages and create interactional synergy. This paper presents a demonstration of a small macro-environment: three conceptually-linked installations to ...

The chemical industry includes a wide range of factories focused on obtaining final products as: (i) plastics; (ii) fibers; (iii) rubber; (iv) perfumery and cosmetic products; (v) cleaning products. Although the level safety in activities installations this sector is very high, use dangerous substances implies an increased risk suffering accident involving emission hazardous substances, as well...

Abstract The Neo Deterministic Seismic Hazard Assessment (NDSHA) is the innovative multi‐disciplinary scenario‐physics‐based approach for evaluation of seismic hazard and risks. When an earthquake occurs, ground shaking does not depend on its likelihood according to widespread Probabilistic Analysis (PSHA), which estimates are too often wrong. An “unlikely” can occur at any time and, sooner or ...

This paper describes how principles which are emerging from social scientific studies of people’s interaction with mixed media artefacts in public places have been used to support the development of two installations, the second of which is a long term museum exhibit. Our principles highlight the design of ‘emergent collaborative value’, ‘layers of noticeability’ and ‘structures of motivation’ ...

This paper is concerned with the coordination of inventory control in divergent multiechelon inventory systems under periodic review and decentralized control. All the installations track echelon inventories. Under decentralized control the installations will decide upon replenishment policies that minimize their individual inventory costs. In general these policies do not coincide with the opt...

This paper conducted an economic analysis of the viability of five solar photovoltaic installations in County Tipperary, Ireland. Economic barriers along with policy recommendations are also discussed in detail in order to incentivise solar photovoltaics installations in Ireland. Using costings, solar photovoltaic energy output data and solar radiation data it is also investigated how Irish fin...

A number of semi-permanent light art installations and sculptures was commissioned from different artists, each highlighting a different historical building or one of the many canal-bridges in the city. The installations will all remain in place for a minimum of 10 years. The light art installations together constitute a walking route through the city center under the name “Trajectum Lumen”. Th...