Summerschool Sustainable Housing from a European Perspective
7 - 12 July 2024
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Housing is of key importance for societies. It drives the economy and is a key issue for sustainable urban and regional development in growing as well as declining areas.
The energy crisis and energy transition have a huge impact on human behavior relating to energy, housing, and the built environment. The summer school will give insight into the European perspective on the development of a sustainable housing stock, and speeding up energy transition goals, by presenting European and national goals, policies, regulations, assessment tools, process innovations, behavioural, institutional and management approaches. It will shed light on emerging economies and institutions in a similar context.
Scope
This Summer School is organised as in-depth lectures covering a variety of perspectives on sustainable housing transformation, workshops, site visit and a tender game for the renovation of a housing complex.
The lectures are professors working at the TU Delft and are all well-known experts in their field. We will visit the to be renovated housing complex in Schiedam on Monday.
In the tender game you, as part of a group, are challenged to design the technical, social, environmental and financial strategies to make sure that the housing complex will be as sustainable as possible, has future value for existing and new residents, and acts as an exemplary role for market diffusion.
The Summerschool in a Nutshell
Programme
Organisers
TU Delft is one of the world’s leading schools of Architecture and the Built Environment. The energy transition features as the school’s key educational themes. The faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment is a prominent school in housing research and education
The Summer School is organized by:
- Dr. Ad Straub, Public clients in construction, Coordinator Summer School
- Professor Dr. Henk Visscher, Housing Quality and Process Innovation, director Urban Energy Institute
- Dr. Queena Qian, Housing Quality and Process Innovation
- Dr. Erwin Mlecnik, Housing Management
Registration
We invite Bachelor students in their final year, Master students, PhDs and professionals with background knowledge and research interests on sustainable housing and the built environment. The summer school aims to attract international participants in the field of sustainable housing and the built environment. Previous summer schools have successfully attracted worldwide participants.
Registration fee is €800 for students and €1200 for practitioners. Full attendance is a prerequisite for receiving the certificate of participation.
Application
Your application should include a convincing motivation letter, a short CV (max. 2 pages) and a summary of research interests (max. 1 page). Please submit your application by 26 April 2024 to the Department of Management in the Built Environment (mbe-bk@tudelft.nl).
Due to the limited place available, the selection will be given priority to the eligible applicants who make the earlier submission. Upon approval of the application, please register within 10 working days to guarantee your place at the Summer School.
For application submissions, registration and other practical questions, please contact our secretariat at: mbe-bk@tudelft.nl
For further questions regarding the content of the program, please contact dr. Ad Straub (coordinator) at: A.Straub@tudelft.nl
Practical information
Accommodation
Students attending the Summer School are responsible for finding their own accommodation. TU Delft does not have any special agreements with hotels or hostels in Delft. We can only recommend options like this and/or this.
Venue
Summer School will be hosted at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. Our address is Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL, Delft, The Netherlands. The venue is easily accessible from Delft city centre and from Delft main train station on foot or by bike or bus.