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08 May 2023

Project ‘Cowborgs in the polder’: from designed dairy landscapes to nitrogen crisis

Project ‘Cowborgs in the polder’: from designed dairy landscapes to nitrogen crisis

Automated technologies have driven the transformation and growth of the Dutch dairy industry. Today, this sector is questioned for its adverse effect on nature, especially in the context of the nitrogen crisis. To better address environmental problems caused by farming, it is important to understand how the use of automation and other digital technologies in this sector is affecting those places where food is produced.

04 May 2023

Pressure on Dutch housing market eases further

Pressure on Dutch housing market eases further

In the first quarter of 2023, the downward trend in housing market prices continues. The number of homes sold in the existing housing stock also appears to be at a lower level than we were used to in previous years. Yet there is certainly no free fall in the housing market. The market is becoming calmer, giving consumers a bit more choice and increasingly they dare to bid beneath the asking price. However, the limited production of new homes in the owner-occupied sector and the continuing growth in population will keep pressure on the housing demand, making price increases more likely in the medium term.

13 April 2023

Research at Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment highly rated

Research at Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment highly rated

In late November 2022, a committee of eminent experts visited the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment to form an opinion on our research (2016-2021). The committee's findings are downright positive.

12 April 2023

Future of a disputed line

Future of a disputed line

Our past sometimes has controversial sides regarding heritage when it’s linked for example to the Second World War or slavery. When protecting this controversial heritage, you need to have a good plan to appreciate the different visions and sensitivities regarding this heritage. Of course, heritage experts prefer to preserve relics from the past. But what is the public opinion of people living close by this multifocal past?

07 April 2023

Open technology laureate for ‘UPCAST GLASS: Upcycling waste glass by casting’

Open technology laureate for ‘UPCAST GLASS: Upcycling waste glass by casting’

Glass recycling provides opportunities for recovering materials and reducing production energy demand, but most non-container glass is currently down-cycled or landfilled at end-of-life, because glass production processes cannot accommodate the contamination and compositional variations of waste glass streams.

07 April 2023

"We won't solve the housing crisis by building 1 million houses"

"We won't solve the housing crisis by building 1 million houses"

Nowadays, the housing crisis is high on the political agenda. But that was not the case in 2019. However, at TU Delft, the contours of the problem were already visible. Marja Elsinga (Professor of Housing Institutions & Governance) was asked to lead the 1M Homes project. The main question was: is it necessary to build an additional one million homes or can it be solved differently.

07 April 2023

Groeifondsgelden for Future-proof living environment

Groeifondsgelden for Future-proof living environment

With the Groeifondsgelden (National Growth Fund), the Dutch government is investing billions in projects that will ensure long-term economic growth. Recently, the final budget was allocated for the Future-proof Living Environment program, where industrial new construction and renovation solutions are being (re)developed.

28 March 2023

"Sustainable applications will not solve all problems on their own."

"Sustainable applications will not solve all problems on their own."

What words are needed to express what you experience when you read the IPCC reports and the newspapers? To describe a truly sustainable future? Silke Jonk (industrial ecology student TU Delft) and Elise Chalcraft (former sociology and urban studies student, EUR) created a dictionary of ten new terms. One is presented to Arjan van Timmeren professor of Environmental Technology & Design and scientific director of Resilient Delta Initiative.

28 March 2023

Four designs for earthquake-resistant shelters for Turkey and Syria

Four designs for earthquake-resistant shelters for Turkey and Syria

Modular homes that can be quickly adapted to a family situation, cleverly reusing rubble as building material for temporary housing, setting up emergency shelters in tent camps in such a way that communities can still be together. With such housing solutions and designs came 50 students from TU Delft after an education week on earthquake-resistant building and architecture after humanitarian disasters.

28 March 2023

Dick van Gameren reappointed as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment

The Executive Board has reappointed Professor Dick van Gameren as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment He took office as dean on April 2019 and will begin a second four-year term on April 1 next.